R. Anthony Lodge - A Sociolinguistic History of Parisian French. Title: A Sociolinguistic History of Parisian French.
Cambridge University Press | 2004 | ISBN: 0511189133 | 302 pages | PDF | 2.0 MB
Conventional histories of the French language are unidimensional and standardoriented, treating language change in a social and demographic vacuum, and as a process in which ‘ordinary speakers’ do not participate. This book has shown, if nothing else, how the speech of Paris has evolved hand in hand with demographic and socio-economic change, howsocial differences and dialect-mixing have had a crucial role to play in language change, and how the development of the standard language in the city can only be fully understood in the context of the city’s vernacular.