Download or read book Nouvelle histoire de la langue fran aise written by Jacques Chaurand and published by Seuil. This book was released on 1999 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: « Une histoire de la langue française se doit de retracer l'évolution phonétique, celle de la syntaxe ou du sens des mots ; mais elle doit être aussi sociologique, politique, culturelle... Ces deux aspects sont complémentaires ; pourtant ils sont d'ordinaire traités séparément. C'est pourquoi nous avons voulu donner au lecteur une somme qui les présente précisément dans leur complémentarité. On apprendra donc ici comment, par exemple, le passé simple a cessé d'être employé dans la langue parlée, ou comment on a pris valeur de nous ; mais on verra aussi que ce que nous appelons «le français» est le descendant de la langue de la chancellerie royale, «langue du roi» qui s'est imposée progressivement à toute la France, puis à des contrées géographiquement éloignées de son berceau originel. À travers sa longue histoire, la langue française a connu bien des métamorphoses. Le lecteur en trouvera le récit captivant et détaillé dans cet ouvrage de référence qui fait le point sur les connaissances actuelles avec les méthodes actuelles, et lui permettra de découvrir les liens qui unissent la langue et le vécu des francophones de toutes les époques. »--Page 4 de la couverture.

Download or read book Introduction l histoire de la langue fran aise written by Blanco, Xavier and published by Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. This book was released on 2014 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce livre retrace l’histoire de la langue française depuis ses origines jusqu’à la Révolution française. Le premier chapitre part de différents substrats du français pour arriver au premier texte en proto-français (IXe siècle). Le deuxième chapitre aborde le “très ancien français” (Xe-XIe siècles) mais focalise sur la période correspondant à l’ancien français (XIIe-XIIIe siècles), dont il inclut une description détaillée. Le troisième chapitre présente le moyen français (XIVe-XVe siècles). Le quatrième chapitre est consacré au français de la Renaissance (XVIe siècle). Le cinquième chapitre étudie le français classique (XVIIe siècle). Finalement, le sixième chapitre se concentre sur le français de l’Illustration (XVIIIe siècle). Chaque chapitre est divisé en deux sections : histoire externe (étude des circonstances politiques, culturelles et socio-économiques, entre autres, qui ont eu une influence directe sur la formation, l’évolution et la diffusion de la langue) et histoire interne (étude des aspects phonétiques, morphosyntaxiques, sémantiques et lexicaux).

Download or read book Introduction l histoire de la langue fran aise 5e d written by Michèle Perret and published by Armand Colin. This book was released on 2020-07-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quand a-t-on commencé à parler français ? Comment s’exprimaient les rois de France ? Pourquoi des pays dont le français n’est pas la langue maternelle, l’ont-ils choisi comme langue o fficielle ? Pourquoi le français ne cesse-t-il d’évoluer ? D’où viennent le féminin et le masculin ? Pourquoi l’imparfait du subjonctif est-il en voie de disparition ? Pourquoi les Français sont-ils si attachés à leur orthographe ? Entre tradition et modernité, cette histoire raisonnée de la langue française donne leur place aux théories les plus récentes et aux controverses actuelles. Son ambition est d’initier à la réflexion sur le changement linguistique en apportant les connaissances nécessaires pour comprendre comment une langue naît et se transforme.

Download or read book Histoire de la langue fran aise written by Mireille Huchon and published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche. This book was released on 2002 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cette Histoire de la langue française, depuis ses origines jusqu'aux variétés du français actuel, traite conjointement de l'histoire externe du français (événements politiques et culturels, mutations sociales,' institutions comme l'Académie française, rôle des organismes officiels) et de son évolution interne (prononciation, graphie, morphologie, syntaxe, vocabulaire). Elle décrit les systèmes du bas-latin, du français de l'époque médiévale, du XVIe siècle, de l'époque moderne. Une place particulière est accordée aux codifications orthographiques, à la grammaire, à la rhétorique et à la réflexion sur le langage. Les variétés du français dans le monde (Belgique, Suisse, Québec, créole, acadien...), les spécificités des langues régionales et autochtones, les idiolectes, l'influence du plurilinguisme sont également analysés. De nombreux exemples enfin permettent de comprendre les apparentes irrégularités du français actuel.

Download or read book Manual of Standardization in the Romance Languages written by Franz Lebsanft and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language standardization is an ongoing process based on the notions of linguistic correctness and models. This manual contains thirty-six chapters that deal with the theories of linguistic norms and give a comprehensive up-to-date description and analysis of the standardization processes in the Romance languages. The first section presents the essential approaches to the concept of linguistic norm ranging from antiquity to the present, and includes individual chapters on the notion of linguistic norms and correctness in classical grammar and rhetoric, in the Prague School, in the linguistic theory of Eugenio Coseriu, in sociolinguistics as well as in pragmatics, cognitive and discourse linguistics. The second section focuses on the application of these notions with respect to the Romance languages. It examines in detail the normative grammar and the normative dictionary as the reference tools for language codification and modernization of those languages that have a long and well-established written tradition, i.e. Romanian, Italian, French, Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese. Furthermore, the volume offers a discussion of the key issues regarding the standardization of the ‘minor’ Romance languages as well as Creoles.

Download or read book A Sociolinguistic History of Parisian French written by R. Anthony Lodge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the interlinked history of Parisian speech and the Parisian population.

Download or read book Histoire de la Langue Fran ais written by Emile Littré and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Tyranny of Writing written by Constanze Weth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the powerful role of writing in society. The invention of writing, independently at various places and times in history, always stood at the cradle of powerful civilizations. It is impossible to imagine modern life without writing. As individuals and social groups we hold high expectations of its potential for societal and personal development. Globally, huge resources have been and are being invested in promoting literacy worldwide. So what could possibly be tyrannical about writing? The title is inspired by Ferdinand de Saussure's argument against writing as an object of linguistic research and what he called la tyrannie de la lettre. His critique denounced writing as an imperfect, distorted image of speech that obscures our view of language and its structure. The chapters of the book, written by experts in language and literacy studies, go beyond this and explore tyrannical aspects of writing in society through history and around the world: from Medieval Novgorod, the European Renaissance and 19th-century France and Germany over colonial Sudan to postcolonial Sri Lanka and Senegal and present-day Hong Kong and Central China to the Netherlands and Spain. The metaphor of 'tyranny of writing' serves as a heuristic for exploring ideologies of language and literacy in culture and society and tensions and contradictions between the written and the spoken word.

Download or read book The Defence of French written by Robin Adamson and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to find out whether French, one of the great languages of the world, is in crisis or not. It traces the history and development of language defence in France and examines the sometimes contradictory attitudes of French people to their beloved language. It assesses the necessity for and the usefulness of the many activities in defence of French and suggests what its future might be.

Download or read book Syntactic Borrowing in Contemporary French written by Mairi MaLaughlin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely held that the large-scale translation of international news from English will lead to changes in French syntax. For the first time this assumption is put to the test using extensive fieldwork carried out in an international news agency and a corpus of translated news agency dispatches. The linguistic analysis of three syntactic structures in the translations is complemented by an investigation of the effects of a range of factors including, most notably, the speed at which the translation is carried out. The analysis sheds new light on the ways in which news translation could lead to syntactic borrowing in French, and by extension, in other languages.

Download or read book Language Culture and Hegemony in Modern France written by Freeman G. Henry and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this panoramic study, Freeman Henry chronicles the rise to prominence of French language and culture. He meticulously analyzes the protracted government-sponsored efforts to foster and maintain that status and--ultimately--the latter-day challenges to France's national linguistic identity posed by Anglocentric globalization and a multicentric European Union. The internal history of the language is closely intertwined with its external history: phonology, morphology, lexicography, and orthography come alive against a backdrop of political, cultural, and institutional manifestations. A felicitous blend of documentary evidence and critical analysis serves to elucidate crucial stages, events, and concepts: 16th-century exuberance, 17th-century foundations, 18th-century expansionism, Revolutionary ideology. Restoration restructuring and commercialization, the advent of linguistic science, the coming of the media age, encroaching technocracy, and clamors for linguistic parity. Individual chapter focus on the plight of minority linguistic communities such as the blind and the deaf, language monitoring policies and legislation such as the Loi Toubon, as well as the feminization project legitimizing Madame la ministre. --Publisher description.

Download or read book The Story of French written by Jean-Benoit Nadeau and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-05-28 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of the historical and cultural development of the French language from the bestselling authors of Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong. Imagine a language that is watched over by a group of forty “Immortals,” a language with rules so complex that few people ever completely master it, whose status as the world’s lingua franca has been declining for two centuries, whose use in global institutions is waning and whose speakers are so insecure they pass laws banning the use of other languages and spend millions of tax-payers’ dollars to make sure it gets used in literature, music and film. Now imagine a language that is second only to English for the number of countries where it is spoken officially, surpassing both Spanish or Arabic, a language that is the official tongue of two G-7 countries and three European nations, that is employed alongside English in most international institutions and that is the number-two choice of language students across the planet – a language with two million teachers and 100 million students worldwide, and whose number of speakers has tripled in the last fifty years. This paradox is the backdrop for The Story of French, in which bilingual Canadian authors Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow unravel the mysteries of a language that has maintained its global influence in spite of the ascendancy of English. Mixing historical analysis with journalistic observation, and drawing on their experiences living in and travelling to French-speaking countries, they explore how the French language developed over the centuries, how it came to be spoken in the Americas, Africa and Asia, and how it has maintained its global appeal.

Download or read book Remade in France written by Valérie Saugera and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remade in France: Anglicisms in the Lexicon and Morphology of French chronicles the current status of French Anglicisms, a popular topic in the history of the French language and a compelling example of the influence of global English. The abundant data come from primary sources-a large online newspaper corpus (for unofficial Anglicisms) and the dictionary (for official Anglicisms)-and secondary sources. This book examines the appearance and behavior of English items in the lexicon and morphology of French, and explains them in the context of French neology and lexical activity. The first phase of the latest contact period (1990-2015) has its own complex linguistic characterization, including a significant influx of nonce borrowings and very low frequency Anglicisms, heterogeneous and creative borrowing outcomes, and direct phraseological borrowing. This book is a counterargument to the well-known criticism that Anglicisms are lexical polluters. On the contrary, the use of Anglicisms requires the inventive application of complex linguistic rules, and the borrowing of Anglicisms into the French lexicon is convincing proof that language change is systematic. The findings bring novel interdisciplinary insights to the domains of borrowing in a non-bilingual contact setting; global English as a source of lexical creativity in the French lexicon; the phases, patterns and processes of integration of English loanwords; the morphology of borrowing; and computational corpus linguistics. The appended database is a snapshot of a synchronic period of linguistic contact and a useful lexicographic resource.

Download or read book Language and National Identity written by Leigh Oakes and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2001-12-31 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-examines the relationship between language and national identity. Unlike many previous studies, it employs a comparative approach: France and Sweden have been chosen as case studies both for their similarities (e.g. both are member states of the European Union) as well as their important differences (e.g. France subscribes in principle to a civic model of national identity, whereas the basis of Swedish identity is undeniably ethnic). It is precisely differences such as these which allow for a more comprehensive understanding of the ethnolinguistic implications of some of the major challenges currently facing France, Sweden and other European countries: regionalism, immigration, European integration and globalization.The present volume benefits from the use of a multidisciplinary approach, and differs from others on the market because of the variety of methods of inquiry used. A series of societal analyses is complemented by an empirical component, bringing a more grounded understanding to the issue of language and national identity.

Download or read book Social and Linguistic Change in European French written by N. Armstrong and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in depth examination of linguistic variation and change as a reflection of social convergence in the major French-speaking countries of Europe - France, Belgium and Switzerland. Considered in the context of linguistic levelling the book provides a detailed account of recent social and linguistic change in European French.

Download or read book Rethinking the History of Empire written by William Gallois and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book forms part of the scholarly rejection of the ‘experts’ of empire and calls for us to centre our understanding of colonial praxis upon the lives of the colonised peoples of the past and the present. Western publics are constantly being told by ‘experts’ that they ought to rethink the history of empire. They are told that their (presumed) guilt regarding their countries’ imperial pasts can be assuaged: if people were only able to deploy a ‘balanced scorecard’ they would then recognise that imperialists brought roads as well as death, schools as well as national borders, and hospitals as well as racialised forms of ethnic conflict. Building around an essay by the Algerian writer Hosni Kitouni (here translated into English for the first time), this book shows how the genre and forms of imperial history mirror the actions of colonists and the documents they left behind, erasing the suffering of indigenous people and the after-effects of empire, which last into the present and will continue into the future. This book was originally published as a special issue of Rethinking History.

Download or read book The Familiar Enemy written by Ardis Butterfield and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-12-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Familiar Enemy re-examines the linguistic, literary, and cultural identities of England and France within the context of the Hundred Years War. During this war, two profoundly intertwined peoples developed complex strategies for expressing their aggressively intimate relationship. This special connection between the English and the French has endured into the modern period as a model for Western nationhood. Ardis Butterfield reassesses the concept of 'nation' in this period through a wide-ranging discussion of writing produced in war, truce, or exile from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century, concluding with reflections on the retrospective views of this conflict created by the trials of Jeanne d'Arc and by Shakespeare's Henry V. She considers authors writing in French, 'Anglo-Norman', English, and the comic tradition of Anglo-French 'jargon', including Machaut, Deschamps, Froissart, Chaucer, Gower, Charles d'Orléans, as well as many lesser-known or anonymous works. Traditionally Chaucer has been seen as a quintessentially English author. This book argues that he needs to be resituated within the deeply francophone context, not only of England but the wider multilingual cultural geography of medieval Europe. It thus suggests that a modern understanding of what 'English' might have meant in the fourteenth century cannot be separated from 'French', and that this has far-reaching implications both for our understanding of English and the English, and of French and the French.