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Norm and Ideology in Spoken French - A Sociolinguistic History of Liaison (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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Norm and Ideology in Spoken French - A Sociolinguistic History of Liaison (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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This volume offers a diachronic sociolinguistic perspective on one
of the most complex and fascinating variable speech phenomena in
contemporary French. Liaison affects a number of word-final
consonants which are realized before a vowel but not pre-pausally
or before a consonant. Liaisons have traditionally been classified
as obligatoire (obligatory), interdite (forbidden) and facultative
(optional), the latter category subject to a highly complex
prescriptive norm. This volume traces the evolution of this norm in
prescriptive works published since the 16th Century, and sets it
against actual practice as evidenced from linguists' descriptions
and recorded corpora. The author argues that optional (or variable)
liaison in French offers a rich and well-documented example of
language change driven by ideology in Kroch's (1978) terms, in
which an elite seeks to maintain a complex conservative norm in the
face of generally simplifying changes led by lower socio-economic
groups, who tend in this case to restrict liaison to a small set of
traditionally obligatory environments.
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