Ce que parler « prétieux » veut dire : Les enseignements d'une fiction linguistique au XVIIe siècle

This book provides the first systematic study of sociolinguistic variation in seventeenth-century France. Drawing on a range of case studies, Wendy Ayres-Bennett makes available new data about linguistic variation in this period, showing the wealth and variety of language usage at a time that is considered to be the most 'standardizing' in the history of French. Variation is analysed in terms of the speaker's 'pre-verbal constitution'-such as gender, age and socioeconomic status-or by the medium, register or genre used. As well as examining linguistic variation itself, the book also considers the fundamental methodological issues that are central to all socio-historical linguistic accounts, and more importantly, addresses the question of what the appropriate sources are for linguists taking a socio-historical approach. In each chapter, the case studies present a range of phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical issues, which pose different methodological questions for sociolinguists and historical linguists alike.

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Ayres-Bennett¹

2004

Sociolinguistic Variation in Seventeenth-Century France

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Ce que parler « prétieux » veut dire : Les enseignements d'une fiction linguistique au XVIIe siècle

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Sincronía y diacronía de los llamados adjetivos adverbializados y de los adverbios en -Mente

Sociolinguistic Variation in Seventeenth-Century France

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