Linguistic Consequences of Language Contact and Restriction: The Case of French in Ontario, Canada

ISBN-13: 9780198248279 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 256 str.

Raymond Mougeon; Edouard Beniak

Opis

This study of minority languages documents the linguistic consequences of contact and restriction. First providing sociohistorical and sociolinguistic backgrounds, the book analyzes the effect contact with English and language-use restriction has had on the evolution of the French dialect spoken in predominately English-speaking Ontario, Canada. Addressing such fundamental theoretical issues as the interplay between linguistic and extralinguistic causes of structural change and the mechanisms of linguistic change in bilingual communities, this work will appeal to linguists interested in language contact and linguistic change.

Recenzje

`The book is an auspicious beginning to the new interdisciplinary series Oxford Studies in Language Contact whose immediate aim is to make "available a collection of research monographs presenting case studies of language contact around the world" ... This book is recommended for its important contribution to sociolinguistic theory, its fascinating and high quality data, and its consistently careful and insightful analyses of linguistic performance. It will undoubtedly be of interest to scholars of sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, and bilingualism, as well as those readers who wish to acquaint themselves with a lesser known variety of North American French.' French Language Studies

Spis treści

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