Overview
- Offers an in-depth and wide-ranging examination of liaison, a key variable phenomenon in spoken French
- Takes into account both contemporary theories of language ideology and language variation and change, as well as corpus data
- Addresses new and emerging areas such as the current discussion of diglossia in French
- Tests evidence for French exceptionalism in respect of sociolinguistic theory
- Considers liaison from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Models
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Diachronic Perspectives on a Prescriptive Norm
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Variation and Change
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Conclusions and Implications
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Book Title: Norm and Ideology in Spoken French
Book Subtitle: A Sociolinguistic History of Liaison
Authors: David Hornsby
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49300-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49299-1Published: 20 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49302-8Published: 21 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49300-4Published: 19 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 230
Number of Illustrations: 79 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociolinguistics, Language Change, Language History, Corpus Linguistics, Grammar