1994
DOI: 10.1017/s0959269500001988
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Historical linguistics, language change and the history of French

Abstract: This is a personal delineation of part of a methodology for the History of the French Language, aiming to combine the methodology of linguistics with that of history proper. Both traditional and modern methods of ‘historical linguistics’ fail to take account of a real time dimension, whereas ‘language history’ often resembles institutional, cultural and social history. We ask how we identify the ‘event’ and the ‘object’ of linguistic history, and how we distinguish variation, innovation, shift and change. We a… Show more

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“…Pour Posner (1994: 80–81), une distanciation par rapport aux normes passées apparaît à cette période. Nous avons déjà vu que la règle des 24 heures ne s’applique plus à la littérature épistolaire du XIX ème (Caron et Liu, 1999; Liu, 2003), supposée refléter l’usage oral.…”
Section: En Français Moderne: Le Déclin Progressif à L’oralunclassified
“…Pour Posner (1994: 80–81), une distanciation par rapport aux normes passées apparaît à cette période. Nous avons déjà vu que la règle des 24 heures ne s’applique plus à la littérature épistolaire du XIX ème (Caron et Liu, 1999; Liu, 2003), supposée refléter l’usage oral.…”
Section: En Français Moderne: Le Déclin Progressif à L’oralunclassified
“…I adopt ‘represented speech’ to capture, on the one hand, the opposition with narrative, but also to acknowledge that represented speech is not a direct and faithful rendition of actual spoken language. Although represented speech might ‘approximate speech to some extent’ (Romaine, 1982: 125), it remains artificial, filtered through the grammar of the author, who, in the medieval period, possessed a degree of education well above that of the general population (Posner, 1994: 92).…”
Section: Historical Sociolinguisticsmentioning
confidence: 99%