296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
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Written as a text, this book looks at the external history of French from its Latin origins to the present day through some of the analytical frameworks developed by contemporary sociolinguistics. French is one of the most highly standardized of the world's languages and the author invites us to see the language as heterogenous, rather than a monolithic entity, using the model proposed by E.... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The Latinisation of Gaul 3. The Dialectalisation of Gallo-Romance 4. Selection of Norms 5. Elaboration of Function 6. Codification 7. Acceptance 8. Maintenance of the Standard References
Biography
R. Anthony Lodge is Professor of French Language and Linguistics at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Le Livre des Manieres d'Etienne de Fougeres (1979), Le Plus Ancien Registre de comptes des Consuls de Montferrand (1985), French: From Dialect to Standard (1993), Exploring the French Language (With N. Armstrong, Y. Ellis and J. Shelton, 1997) and The Earliest Branches of the Roman de Renart (With K. Varty, 2001).
