Paris mushroomed in the thirteenth century to become the largest
city in the Western world, largely through in-migration from rural
areas. The resulting dialect-mixture led to the formation of new,
specifically urban modes of speech. From the time of the
Renaissance social stratification became sharper as the elites
distanced themselves from the Parisian 'Cockney' of the masses.
Nineteenth-century urbanisation transformed the situation yet again
with the arrival of huge numbers of immigrants from far-flung
corners of France, levelling dialect-differences and exposing ever
larger sections of the population to standardising influences. At
the same time, a working-class vernacular emerged which was
distinguished from the upper-class standard not only in grammar and
pronunciation but most markedly in vocabulary (slang). This book
examines the interlinked history of Parisian speech and the
Parisian population through these various phases of in-migration,
dialect-mixing and social stratification from medieval times to the
present day.
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