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French today : language in its social context / edited by Carol Sanders

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1993Description: xii, 323 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521395052 (cased)
  • 9780521395052 (cased)
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Contents:
French : a planned language? / Anne Judge -- Sociosituational variation / Carol Sanders -- Regional variation in France / Roger Hawkins -- The other languages of France : towards a multilingual policy / F. Laroussi and J.-B. Marcellesi -- The migrant languages of Paris / L.-J. Calvet -- Gender and language in French / Marie-Marthe Gervais -- The reform of the writing system / Nina Catach -- Alternative French / Ken George -- New words for new technologies / Stephen Noreiko -- Language and style in politics / John Gaffney -- French and French-based Creoles : the case of the French Caribbean / Gertrud Aub-Buscher -- French in Africa / Suzanne Lafage -- French in Canada / Michel Blanc -- Sociolinguistic variation and the linguist / Jacques Durand.
Summary: An examination of French throughout the French-speaking world, considering prescriptivism, gender, regional languages and dialects.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-307) and index.

French : a planned language? / Anne Judge -- Sociosituational variation / Carol Sanders -- Regional variation in France / Roger Hawkins -- The other languages of France : towards a multilingual policy / F. Laroussi and J.-B. Marcellesi -- The migrant languages of Paris / L.-J. Calvet -- Gender and language in French / Marie-Marthe Gervais -- The reform of the writing system / Nina Catach -- Alternative French / Ken George -- New words for new technologies / Stephen Noreiko -- Language and style in politics / John Gaffney -- French and French-based Creoles : the case of the French Caribbean / Gertrud Aub-Buscher -- French in Africa / Suzanne Lafage -- French in Canada / Michel Blanc -- Sociolinguistic variation and the linguist / Jacques Durand.

An examination of French throughout the French-speaking world, considering prescriptivism, gender, regional languages and dialects.

First published: 1993.

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