French Today

Language in Its Social Context

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Paperback | 7 June 1993

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French Today is a profile of the French language in its social context. British and French linguists examine trends in French throughout the French-speaking world, and address issues around prescriptivism, gender and language, and regional languages and dialects. The collection includes overviews of work done in particular areas and deeper analyses of sociolinguistic questions. One theme is how to represent and interpret data relating to language varieties that have been marginalised. Another concerns the ways in which French is adapting to the future, whether as a language of new technology, or as a vehicular language on the continent. All chapters of this book are in English, with examples and quotations in French, and a mixture of references given in both languages. At the end of each chapter, there are also texts in French, serving as illustration and as pointers to further reading.

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List of figures and maps	p. ix
List of tables	p. x
Notes on the contributors	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
French: a planned language?	p. 7
Sociosituational variation	p. 27
Regional variation in France	p. 55
The other languages of France: towards a multilingual policy	p. 85
The migrant languages of Paris	p. 105
Gender and language in French	p. 121
The reform of the writing system	p. 139
Alternative French	p. 155
New words for new technologies	p. 171
Language and style in politics	p. 185
French and French-based Creoles: the case of the French Caribbean	p. 199
French in Africa	p. 215
French in Canada	p. 239
Sociolinguistic variation and the linguist	p. 257
Bibliography	p. 287
Index	p. 309
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