03750nam 22006735 450 991042605040332120250610110148.09783030493004303049300810.1007/978-3-030-49300-4(CKB)4100000011513420(MiAaPQ)EBC6381088(DE-He213)978-3-030-49300-4(Perlego)3481895(MiAaPQ)EBC29090814(EXLCZ)99410000001151342020201019d2020 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNorm and Ideology in Spoken French A Sociolinguistic History of Liaison /by David Hornsby1st ed. 2020.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2020.1 online resource (XVI, 230 p. 80 illus., 1 illus. in color.) 9783030492991 3030492990 Part 1: Models -- Chapter 1: Ideology and Language Change -- Chapter 2: What is Liaison? -- Part 2: Historical Perspectives on a Prescriptive Norm -- Chapter 3: A Brief History of French Final Consonants -- Chapter 4: An Evolving Norm: Liaison in Prescriptive Grammar -- Part 3: Variation and Change -- Chapter 5: Liaison and Geography -- Chapter 6: Liaison and Social Factors -- Chapter 7: The Four Cities Project -- Chapter 8: Professionnels de la Parole Publique -- Part 4: Conclusions and Implications -- Chapter 9: An Inverse Sociolinguistic Perspective?This volume offers a diachronic sociolinguistic perspective on one of the most complex and fascinating variable speech phenomena in contemporary French. Liaison affects a number of word-final consonants which are realized before a vowel but not pre-pausally or before a consonant. Liaisons have traditionally been classified as obligatoire (obligatory), interdite (forbidden) and facultative (optional), the latter category subject to a highly complex prescriptive norm. This volume traces the evolution of this norm in prescriptive works published since the 16th Century, and sets it against actual practice as evidenced from linguists' descriptions and recorded corpora. The author argues that optional (or variable) liaison in French offers a rich and well-documented example of language change driven by ideology in Kroch's (1978) terms, in which an elite seeks to maintain a complex conservative norm in the face of generally simplifying changes led by lower socio-economic groups, who tend in this case to restrict liaison to a small set of traditionally obligatory environments. David Hornsby is a Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Kent, UK.SociolinguisticsLinguistic changeLanguage and languagesComputational linguisticsLinguisticsSociolinguisticsLanguage ChangeLanguage HistoryComputational LinguisticsTheoretical Linguistics / GrammarSociolinguistics.Linguistic change.Language and languages.Computational linguistics.Linguistics.Sociolinguistics.Language Change.Language History.Computational Linguistics.Theoretical Linguistics / Grammar.306.440944Hornsby David1963-921017MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910426050403321Norm and ideology in spoken French2065760UNINA