Sound Evidence
Speech Communities and Social Accents in Aix-en-Provence
©1996
Thesis
338 Pages
Summary
Sound Evidence documents the range of phonological varieties in use in Aix-en-Provence and investigates the social pressures on convergence towards the standard, such as gender-related speech differences, education, geographical and social mobility, and perhaps most importantly, linguistic and regional identity including bilingualism, the emotional ties of language and relationships of members of a regionally-homogeneous community with the way they speak, exposing language as a rich tapestry through which we reveal, or conceal, ever-changing notions of our social identity.
Details
- Pages
- 338
- Publication Year
- 1996
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783906756080
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- linguistic identity regional identity bilingualism
- Published
- Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt/M., New York, Paris, Wien, 1996. 338 pp.
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