Social and Linguistic Change in European French

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. The Links Between Social and Linguistic Change

   • Nigel Armstrong, Tim Pooley

   Pages 1-7

3. Standardisation and Language Change in France, Belgium and Switzerland

   • Nigel Armstrong, Tim Pooley

   Pages 8-43

4. Social Levelling: Substantive Transformations, Changing Social Practices and Symbolic Representations

   • Nigel Armstrong, Tim Pooley

   Pages 44-99

5. Accents and Levelling in France, Belgium and Switzerland

   • Nigel Armstrong, Tim Pooley

   Pages 100-149

6. The Levelling of Regional Varieties in France

   • Nigel Armstrong, Tim Pooley

   Pages 150-204

7. Regional Vernacular Varieties and Language Levelling in Belgium and Switzerland

   • Nigel Armstrong, Tim Pooley

   Pages 205-248

8. Social Factors: Bringing Together Class, Gender, Migration, Ideology and Language

   • Nigel Armstrong, Tim Pooley

   Pages 249-276

9. Back Matter

   Pages 277-310

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An in depth examination of linguistic variation and change as a reflection of social convergence in the major French-speaking countries of Europe - France, Belgium and Switzerland. Considered in the context of linguistic levelling the book provides a detailed account of recent social and linguistic change in European French.

• convergence
• examination
• Factor
• formation
• France
• French
• gender
• ideology
• language
• migration
• presentation
• reflection
• Switzerland
• tables
• transformation
• literary diction

• University of Leeds, UK

  Nigel Armstrong

• London Metropolitan University, UK

  Tim Pooley

NIGEL ARMSTRONG teaches French and linguistics at the University of Leeds, UK. Current research projects focus on social, regional and stylistic variation in French, as well as translation. His publications include Social and Stylistic Variation in Spoken French (2001) and Translation, Linguistics, Culture (2005)

TIM POOLEY. After a career spanning 30 years teaching French and linguistics at London Metropolitan University (in its various guises) Tim is now an independent researcher, whose main interests are sociolinguistics variation and minority languages in francophone Europe. His publications include Chtimi (1996) and Language, Dialect and Identity in Lille (2004)

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