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Part of the book: Vaugelas and the Development of the French Language

Wendy Ayres-Bennett

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 23

Modern Humanities Research Association

RenaissanceFrenchLinguisticsopen

Abstract.  In this analysis of Vaugelas's work, three major and interrelated perspectives have been adopted - the historical, the linguistic, and the sociolinguistic. Here I want to draw together the major conclusions resulting from each approach. and suggest what is, in my view, the value of such a study of Vaugelas. Three main historical questions have guided the analysis. Firstly, what development can be discerned in Vaugelas's ideas on language and the usage of French? Secondly, what is his position in the history of grammatical or linguistic treatises? Thirdly, what is his influence and lasting effect on the writing of works on language and on the development of the French language?

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