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Author:   Kate Beeching (University of the West of England, Bristol) ,  Nigel Armstrong (University of Leeds) ,  Françoise Gadet (Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   26
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9789027218650

ISBN 10:   902721865
Pages:   257
Publication Date:   14 October 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction (by Beeching, Kate); 2. Section I. Phonological variation and leveling; 3. Introduction (by Armstrong, Nigel); 4. Perception and production in French dialect leveling (by Armstrong, Nigel); 5. The sociolinguistic relevance of regional categories: Some evidence from word-final consonant devoicing in French spoken in Belgium (by Hambye, Philippe); 6. Prosodic style-shifting as audience design: Real-time monitoring of pitch range and contour types in Swiss French (by Miller, Jessica Sertling); 7. The immigrant factor in phonological leveling (by Pooley, Tim); 8. A prototype-theoretic model of Southern French (by Pustka, Elissa); 9. The law of position revisited: The case of mid-vowels in Briancon French (by Violin-Wigent, Anne); 10. Section II. Stylistic and syntactic variation; 11. Introduction (by Gadet, Francoise); 12. Variation in first and second language French: The case of parce que (by Bilger, Mireille); 13. French preadolescents' perceptions of stylistic variation: A contrastive sociolinguistic study (by Buson, Laurence); 14. Sociolinguistic variation in African French: The Ivorian relative clause (by Moseng Knutsen, Anne); 15. Register variation in the non-standard use of non-finite forms (by Rossi-Gensane, Nathalie); 16. Section III. Lexical variation and semantic change; 17. Introduction (by Beeching, Kate); 18. Discourse markers and regional variation in French: A lexico-semantic approach (by Dostie, Gaetane); 19. Sociolinguistic factors and the pragmaticalization of bon in contemporary spoken French (by Beeching, Kate); 20. From 'luck' to 'wealth': The stylistic (re)distribution of fortune in Modern French (by Courbon, Bruno); 21. Index

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