Sociolinguistic variation in contemporary French / / edited by Kate Beeching, Nigel R. Armstrong, Francoise Gadet

• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xi, 257 p
• Disciplina: 447
• Soggetto topico: French language - Social aspects - France; French language - Social aspects - Foreign countries; French language - Variation; Sociolinguistics
• Altri autori: BeechingKate ArmstrongNigel GadetFrancoise
• 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: This chapter examines the semantic development of fortuné in Modern French, charting its sociostylistic variation from the 18th to the 21st century. It focuses particularly on the increasing use of fortuné in its current sense of 'rich/wealthy', and the negative reception of this new sense in most lexicographical works up until the 20th century. The study aims to show how this semantic innovation produced a lexical stylistic division, opposing a traditional usage (considered standard) to a 'neological' one (considered non-standard). Having undergone a shift of meaning from 'lucky/happy' to 'wealthy', fortuné is currently most commonly understood as a euphemism for 'rich'.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sociolinguistic variation in contemporary French
• ISBN: 1-282-44499-9; 9786612444999; 90-272-8899-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809814403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Impact, studies in language and society ; ; 26.