Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French

Editors

Kate Beeching

| University of the West of England, Bristol

Nigel Armstrong

| University of Leeds

Françoise Gadet

| Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense

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Divided into three main sections on Phonology, Syntax and Semantics, this new volume on variation in French aims to provide a snapshot of the state of sociolinguistic research inside and outside metropolitan France. From a diatopic perspective, varieties in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Africa and Canada are considered, mainly with respect to phonological features but also focusing on syntactic and lexical evolutions (the relative clause in Ivorian French and discourse markers in Canadian French). The acquisition of stylistic features of French figures in chapters on both first and second language learners and variation across different genres is addressed with respect to non-standard non-finite forms. Finally, a section on semantic change traces the way that interactional and other socio-historical factors affect word meaning. The volume will appeal to (socio-)linguists with an interest in contemporary French as well as to advanced undergraduates and post-graduate students of French and specialists in the field.

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 26] 2009. xi, 257 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.26

Table of Contents

Introduction Kate Beeching	vii–xii
Section I. Phonological variation and leveling
Introduction Nigel Armstrong	3–8
Perception and production in French dialect leveling Nigel Armstrong and Zoë Boughton	9–24
The sociolinguistic relevance of regional categories: Some evidence from word-final consonant devoicing in French spoken in Belgium Philippe Hambye	25–42
Prosodic style-shifting as audience design: Real-time monitoring of pitch range and contour types in Swiss French Jessica Sertling Miller	43–62
The immigrant factor in phonological leveling Tim Pooley	63–76
A prototype-theoretic model of Southern French Elissa Pustka	77–94
The law of position revisited: The case of mid-vowels in Briançon French Anne Violin-Wigent	95–112
Section II. Stylistic and syntactic variation
Introduction Françoise Gadet	115–120
Variation in first and second language French: The case of parce que Mireille Bilger and Henry Tyne	121–140
French preadolescents’ perceptions of stylistic variation: A contrastive sociolinguistic study Laurence Buson	141–158
Sociolinguistic variation in African French: The Ivorian relative clause Anne Moseng Knutsen	159–176
Register variation in the non-standard use of non-finite forms Nathalie Rossi-Gensane	177–192
Section III. Lexical variation and semantic change
Introduction Kate Beeching and Richard Waltereit	195–199
Discourse markers and regional variation in French: A lexico-semantic approach Gaétane Dostie	201–214
Sociolinguistic factors  and the pragmaticalization of bon in contemporary spoken French Kate Beeching	215–230
From ‘luck’ to ‘wealth’: The stylistic (re)distribution of fortuné in Modern French Bruno Courbon	231–252
Index	253–258

“This volume offers a most valuable mise au point on the variability of contemporary French, synthesising French and Anglo-American methods and perceptions in a highly creative way. It deserves a conspicuous place on postgraduate and even some undergraduate bibliographies, not just in French, but in general sociolinguistics too.”

Anthony Lodge, University of St. Andrews

“An interesting and diverse collection of articles. This will offset the commonly heard claim that no one does quantitative sociolinguistics in France.”

Noami Nagy, Universisty of Toronto

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Subjects

Linguistics

Romance linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

BIC Subject: CFB – Sociolinguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2009023931 | Marc record