Linguistic Consequences of Language Contact and Restriction

The Case of French in Ontario, Canada
Erscheinungsjahr 1991
ISBN: 978-0-19-824827-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 552 g

The description of minority or threatened languages with a view to documenting the linguistic consequences of language contact and restriction has now emerged as a distinct area of investigation within sociolinguistics. In this book, Raymond Mougeon and Édouard Beniak present a series of analyses of the impact that contact with English on the one hand, and language-use restriction on the other, have had on the evolution of the French dialect spoken in the predominantly English-speaking province of Ontario, Canada. As a background to the analyses, the authors provide sociohistorical and sociolinguistic information on the Franco-Ontarian community, and make comparisons with other varieties of French both within and outside North America. They address fundamental theoretical issues such as the interplay between linguistic and extralinguistic causes of structural change and the mechanisms of linguistic change in bilingual as opposed to unilingual speech communities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mougeon, Raymond

Beniak, Édouard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Dialektologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Socio-historical background; French-language spread; Methodology; Simplification; Children and linguistic change; Sociolectal reduction; Aborted sociolectal reduction; Covert interference; Overt interference; Core lexical borrowing; Conclusion; References; Index