A Sociolinguistic History of Parisian French (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521100717)

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.

Author: R. Anthony Lodge
ISBN-10: 0521100712
ISBN-13: 9780521100717
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/29/2009
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d