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Language and Social Structure in Urban France (Hardcover, New)
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Language and Social Structure in Urban France (Hardcover, New)
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The coming together of linguistics and sociology in the 1960 s,
most notably via the work of William Labov, marked a revolution in
the study of language and provided a paradigm for the understanding
of variation and change. Labovian quantitative methods have been
employed successfully in North America, the UK, Scandinavia and New
Zealand, but have had surprisingly little resonance in France, a
country which poses many challenges to orthodox sociolinguistic
thinking. Why, for example, does a nation with unexceptional scores
on income distribution and social mobility show an exceptionally
high degree of linguistic levelling, that is, the elimination of
marked regional or local speech forms? And why does French appear
to abound in hyperstyle variables, which show greater variation on
the stylistic than on the social dimension, in defiance of a
well-established theory than such variables should not occur? This
volume brings together leading variationist sociolinguists and
sociologists from both sides of the Channel to ask: what makes
France exceptional ? In addressing this question, variationists
have been forced to reassess the accepted interdisciplinary
consensus, and to ask, as sociolinguistics has come of age, whether
concepts and definitions have been transposed in a way which
meaningfully preserves their original sense and, crucially, takes
account of recent developments in sociology. Sociologists, for
their part, have focused on the largely neglected area of language
variation and its implications for social theory. Their findings
therefore transcend the case study of a particularly enigmatic
country to raise important theoretical questions for both
disciplines."
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