172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study challenges the orthodox view that emergent regional varieties of French represent no more than an ephemeral dialect residue of little theoretical interest. It follows the life cycle of an obsolescent urban Picard variety, spoken in a mining town in the Pas-de-Calais, and attempts to unravel the complex reasons behind the survival of some local variants at the expense of others. Applying... Read more
The Rise and Fall of Dialects in France, Sources of Variation in the Bassin Minier, Variation and change in the Bassin Minier (part contents)
Biography
David Hornsby is Lecturer in French at the University of Kent. He publishes on language variation and on the history of French, and was a research consultant for the BBC's Voices project (2005) into contemporary British accent and dialect variation.
