Southern Regional French
A Linguistic Analysis of Language and Dialect Contact
Damien Mooney
Click cover to enlarge Buy hardback at: Buy paperback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Research Monographs in French Studies 47 Legenda 19 December 2016 • 170pp ISBN: 978-1-909662-89-6 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95 ISBN: 978-1-781883-39-6 (paperback, 30 September 2018) • RRP £9.99, $13.50, €12.50 ISBN: 978-1-781883-40-2 (JSTOR ebook) Access online: Books@JSTOR FrenchLinguisticsstudent-priced In addition to its original library hardback edition, this title is now on sale in the new student-priced Legenda paperback range. Despite apparent interest in defining français régional since as early at the nineteenth century, we have been left wondering about the precise origins and changing nature of contemporary regional varieties of French, particularly in the south of France. Through an examination of linguistic transfer, in a situation of bilingualism, and of levelling and diffusion during dialect contact, this study examines the hypothesis that regional French pronunciations have resulted from contact with France's minority languages, and challenges the received view that young Southerners are abandoning their regional lilt in favour of a more cosmopolitan Parisian accent. The differential mechanisms of linguistic change active during the genesis and evolution of both northern and southern regional French, as well as broader questions concerning the interface between language and dialect contact in France, are also discussed. Damien Mooney is Lecturer in French Linguistics at the University of Bristol.
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Bibliography entry: Mooney, Damien, Southern Regional French: A Linguistic Analysis of Language and Dialect Contact, Research Monographs in French Studies, 47 (Legenda, 2016) First footnote reference: 35 Damien Mooney, Southern Regional French: A Linguistic Analysis of Language and Dialect Contact, Research Monographs in French Studies, 47 (Legenda, 2016), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Mooney, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Mooney, Damien. 2016. Southern Regional French: A Linguistic Analysis of Language and Dialect Contact, Research Monographs in French Studies, 47 (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Mooney 2016: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Mooney 2016: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Southern-Regional-French www.mhra.org.uk/publications/rmfs-47 |