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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781084203321

Titolo

Sociolinguistic variation in contemporary French [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Kate Beeching, Nigel R. Armstrong, Françoise Gadet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2009

ISBN

1-282-44499-9

9786612444999

90-272-8899-2

Descrizione fisica

xi, 257 p

Collana

Impact, studies in language and society, , issn 1385-7908 ; ; 26

Altri autori (Persone)

BeechingKate

ArmstrongNigel

GadetFrançoise

Disciplina

447

Soggetti

French language - Social aspects - France

French language - Social aspects - Foreign countries

French language - Variation

Sociolinguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Phonological variation and leveling. Introduction / Nigel Armstrong -- Perception and production in French dialect leveling / Nigel Armstrong and Zoë Boughton -- The sociolinguistic relevance of regional categories : some evidence from word-final consonant devoicing in French spoken in Belgium / Philippe Hambye -- Prosodic style-shifting as audience design : real-time monitoring of pitch range and contour types in Swiss French / Jessica Sertling Miller -- The immigrant factor in phonological leveling / Tim Pooley -- A prototype-theoretic model of Southern French / Elissa Pustka -- The law of position revisited : the case of mid-vowels in Briançon French / Anne Violin-Wigent -- Stylistic and syntactic variation. Introduction / Françoise Gadet -- Variation in first and second language French : the case of parce que / Mireille Bilger and Henry Tyne -- French preadolescents' perceptions of stylistic variation : a contrastive sociolinguistic study / Laurence Buson -- Sociolinguistic variation in African French : the Ivorian relative clause / Anne Moseng Knutsen -- Register variation in the non-standard use of



non-finite forms / Nathalie Rossi-Gensane -- Lexical variation and semantic change. Introduction / Kate Beeching and Richard Waltereit -- Discourse markers and regional variation in French : a lexico-semantic approach / Gaétane Dostie -- Sociolinguistic factors and the pragmaticalization of bon in contemporary spoken French / Kate Beeching -- From 'luck' to 'wealth' : the stylistic (re)distribution of fortuné in modern French / Bruno Courbon.