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Norm and Ideology in Spoken French

A Sociolinguistic History of Liaison

Produktform: E-Buch Text Elektronisches Buch in proprietärem

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  (obligatory),  (forbidden) and  (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. weiterlesen

Elektronisches Format: PDF

Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-030-49300-4 / 978-3030493004 / 9783030493004

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Erscheinungsdatum: 19.10.2020

Seiten: 230

Autor(en): David Hornsby

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