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A Sociolinguistic History of Parisian French

A Sociolinguistic History of Parisian French

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ISBN10: 0521821797
ISBN13: 9780521821797
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Feb 26 2004
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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