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LINGUISTIC CONSEQUENCES OF LANGUAGE CONTACT AND RESTRICTION
THE CASE OF FRENCH IN ONTARIO, CANADA |
| By: |
Raymond Mougeon |
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Hardback |
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£56.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
019824827X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198248279 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
3 January, 1991 |
| Series: |
Oxford Studies in Language Contact |
| Pages: |
254 |
| Description: |
Oxford Studies in Language ContactSeries editors: Professor Suzanne Romaine, Merton College, Oxford, and Dr Peter Mulhausler, Linacre College, OxfordThis series aims to make available a collection of research monographs which present case studies of language contact around the world. The series will consider factors which give rise to language contact and the consequences of such contact in a broad interdisciplinary context. Given the prevalence of language contact in communities throughout the world, there are as yet insufficient studies to permit typological generalization about the subject: this series aims to fill that gap.This book is the result of ten years of extensive research on Ontarian French, a dialect which has been largely ignored by linguists. It therefore complements writings on the more popular subject of Quebec French, and contributes a significant new body of data. It also makes a significant contribution to the advancement of the specialist discipline of variationist sociolinguistics. |
| Synopsis: |
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 Edouard 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. |
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UK |
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Clarendon Press |
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