Paris became the largest city in the Western world during the thirteenth century, and has remained influential ever since. This book examines the interlinked history of Parisian speech and the Parisian population through various phases of immigration, dialect-mixing and social stratification from the Middle Ages to the present. It reveals how new urban modes of speech developed during periods of expansion, how the city's elites sought to distinguish their language from that of the masses, and how a working-class vernacular eventually emerged with its own slang vocabulary.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521821797
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96526851
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Religious Sociology
Author
R. Anthony Lodge
Publication Name
A Sociolinguistic History of Parisian French
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Languages, History
Publication Year
2004
Type
Study Guide
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
236mm
Item Width
162mm
Item Weight
632g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
R. Anthony Lodge
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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