Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and maps
- List of tables
- Notes on the contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 French: a planned language?
- 2 Sociosituational variation
- 3 Regional variation in France
- 4 The other languages of France: towards a multilingual policy
- 5 The migrant languages of Paris
- 6 Gender and language in French
- 7 The reform of the writing system
- 8 Alternative French
- 9 New words for new technologies
- 10 Language and style in politics
- 11 French and French-based Creoles: the case of the French Caribbean
- 12 French in Africa
- 13 French in Canada
- 14 Sociolinguistic variation and the linguist
- Bibliography
- Index
List of figures and maps
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and maps
- List of tables
- Notes on the contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 French: a planned language?
- 2 Sociosituational variation
- 3 Regional variation in France
- 4 The other languages of France: towards a multilingual policy
- 5 The migrant languages of Paris
- 6 Gender and language in French
- 7 The reform of the writing system
- 8 Alternative French
- 9 New words for new technologies
- 10 Language and style in politics
- 11 French and French-based Creoles: the case of the French Caribbean
- 12 French in Africa
- 13 French in Canada
- 14 Sociolinguistic variation and the linguist
- Bibliography
- Index
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- French TodayLanguage in its Social Context, pp. ixPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993