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The French Language and Questions of Identity

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Our choice of linguistic code is one of the most fundamental ways open to us of establishing our membership of some groups and our distance from others. This symbolic value of language may often leave it open to exploitation, especially by the state.

List of contents

Part I: Institutionalized Identity 1. Langue française et questions d’identité: Quelques propositions sur le xviie siècle 2. L’Institutionnalisation de la langue commune à la fin du xviie siècle 3. Norme et identité(s) dans un dictionnaire institutionnel, le TLF 4. 842, 1871, and All That: Alsace-Lorraine and the Transformations of Linguistic Nationalism 5. Français d’ailleurs: The Pluricentricity of French Identities? Part II: Regional Identities 6. Variations des rapports à la langue et brouillage identitaire dans l’aire picardophone 7. Dialect Lite? the Rise of the Semi-Speaker in an Obsolescent Dialect Community 8. Picard and Identity in Lille and the Nord–Pas-de-Calais Part III: Social Identity 9. Tu/vous Choices: An ‘Act of Identity’? 10. Termes d’adresse et insultes: Discours sur l’autre ou sur moi? 11. Identity, Gender, and Perceptions of Insult Performance in Adolescent French 12. Social Identity, Salience, and Language Change: The Case of Post-Rhematic 13. Catégoriser la langue, catégoriser les locuteurs. Variantes, emblèmes et identité située: le cas de Part IV: Competing Identities 14. Henri Estienne and the Problem of French–Italian Code-Switching in Sixteenth-Century France 15. ‘On voit ... se répandre par-tout, un jargon colon-germanisé’: Recherches sur le français des Huguenots à Berlin au xviiième siècle 16. Maghrebians via French 17. Variation et revitalisation du français en Louisiane

About the author

Mari Jones

Summary

This book demonstrates how the multi-faceted nature of the concept of identity makes its relationship with French language both complex and unpredictable. It explores the 'institutionalised' identity, regional identity, social identity and competing identities in the French context.

Product details

Authors Mari Jones
Assisted by Wendy Ayres-Bennett (Editor)
Publisher Taylor and Francis
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.12.2021
 
EAN 9781904350682
ISBN 978-1-904350-68-2
No. of pages 244
Dimensions 174 mm x 246 mm x 19 mm
Weight 635 g
Illustrations Farb., s/w. Abb.
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics

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