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Redifining Regional French: Koineization and Dialect Levelling in Northern France

by David Hornsby

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 a sociolinguistic model developed by Peter Trudgill, it shows how the processes of levelling and simplification have driven change in a dialect contact situation, giving rise to a new, stable variety or koiné. This is compared with other new urban varieties in Sweden and the UK, where different economic, social and demographic conditions have produced very different linguistic outcomes. The emergence of Regional French in the north, it is argued, may herald the start of a new diversification of French in Europe. This book will therefore interest both students of French and of language variation more generally. 172p (Legenda 2006)

David Hornsby is Lecturer in French at the University of Kent. He specializes in language variation, and in his doctoral thesis used data from contemporary French dialects to test competing sociolinguistic models. He has also published articles on the history of French, and was a research consultant in 2005 for Voices, a year-long BBC project which investigated contemporary accent and dialect variation in the UK. In addition to French and Russian language, he has taught a range of French and English linguistics courses at the universities of Kent and Cambridge.

ISBN-13: 978-1-904350-50-7
ISBN-10: 1-904350-50-X

Hardback. Price US $69.00
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