Social and linguistic change in European French / Nigel Armstrong and Tim Pooley.
"Looking at language variation in French using linguistic data that has emerged in recent years from France, Belgium and Switzerland, and comparing it to other European countries, this comparative study sets out to track how language changes have followed social and attitudinal developments, gi...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Maps; 1 The Links Between Social and Linguistic Change; 2 Standardisation and Language Change in France, Belgium and Switzerland; 3 Social Levelling: Substantive Transformations, Changing Social Practices and Symbolic Representations; 4 Accents and Levelling in France, Belgium and Switzerland; 5 The Levelling of Regional Varieties in France; 6 Regional Vernacular Varieties and Language Levelling in Belgium and Switzerland; 7 Social Factors: Bringing Together Class, Gender, Migration, Ideology and Language; References; Index.