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Title
Norm and ideology in spoken French : a sociolinguistic history of liaison / David Hornsby.
ISBN
9783030493004 (electronic book)
3030493008 (electronic book)
3030492990
9783030492991
Published
Cham ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-49300-4 doi
Call Number
PC2074.75 .H67 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.440944
Summary
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 obligatoire (obligatory), interdite (forbidden) and facultative (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. David Hornsby is a Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Kent, UK.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Print version: 9783030492991
Part 1: Models
Chapter 1: Ideology and Language Change
Chapter 2: What is Liaison?
Part 2: Historical Perspectives on a Prescriptive Norm
Chapter 3: A Brief History of French Final Consonants
Chapter 4: An Evolving Norm: Liaison in Prescriptive Grammar
Part 3: Variation and Change
Chapter 5: Liaison and Geography
Chapter 6: Liaison and Social Factors
Chapter 7: The Four Cities Project
Chapter 8: Professionnels de la Parole Publique
Part 4: Conclusions and Implications
Chapter 9: An Inverse Sociolinguistic Perspective?
