'How can we relate French dialect levelling to the zeitgeist?'
| Dates: | 16 October 2008 |
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| Times: | 16:15 - 16:15 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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Dr Nigel Armstrong (University of Leeds).'How can we relate French dialect levelling to the zeitgeist?'. Dialect levelling is currently attracting a good deal of scholarly interest in many languages, and although evidence of levelling in French is not very copious, there seems to be little reason to suppose it is not happening. This paper looks at some evidence in English, where levelling is happening in a very visible (or audible) way, and also French. We then consider the difficulties surrounding the study of the large-scale social processes that must, for lack of another explanation, be at the root of levelling.
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