Norm and Ideology in Spoken French: A Sociolinguistic History of Liaison

by David Hornsby

Book Overview

This volume offers a diachronic sociolinguistic perspective on one of the most complex and fascinating variable speech phenomena in contemporary French. Liaison affects a number of word-final consonants which are realized before a vowel but not pre-pausally or before a consonant. Liaisons have traditionally been classified as obligatoire (obligatory), interdite (forbidden) and facultative (optional), the latter category subject...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030492990
• ISBN13: 9783030492991
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"