03014oam 2200433 450 991042605040332120210415085704.03-030-49300-810.1007/978-3-030-49300-4(CKB)4100000011513420(MiAaPQ)EBC6381088(DE-He213)978-3-030-49300-4(EXLCZ)99410000001151342020210415d2020 uy 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNorm and ideology in spoken French a sociolinguistic history of liaison /David Hornsby1st ed. 2020.Cham, Switzerland :Palgrave Macmillan,[2020]©20201 online resource (XVI, 230 p. 80 illus., 1 illus. in color.) 3-030-49299-0 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.French languageSocial aspectsElectronic books.French languageSocial aspects.306.440944Hornsby David1963-921017MiAaPQMiAaPQUtOrBLWBOOK9910426050403321Norm and ideology in spoken French2065760UNINA