Full Description
This volume provides the first comprehensive reference work in English on the French language in all its facets. It offers a wide-ranging approach to the rich, varied, and exciting research across multiple subfields, with seven broad thematic sections covering the structures of French; the history of French; axes of variation; French around the world; French in contact with other languages; second language acquisition; and French in literature, culture, arts, and the media. Each chapter presents the state of the art and directs readers to canonical studies and essential works, while also exploring cutting-edge research and outlining future directions. The Oxford Handbook of the French Language serves both as a reference work for people who are curious to know more about the French language and as a starting point for those carrying out new research on the language and its many varieties. It will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students as well as established scholars, whether they are specialists in French linguistics or researchers in a related field looking to learn more about the language. The diversity of frameworks, approaches, and scholars in the volume demonstrates above all the variety, vitality, and vibrancy of work on the French language today.
Contents
Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Mairi McLaughlin: French and its varieties: Disciplinary perspectives and new horizons
Part I. Structures of French
1: Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie: Phonetics, phonology, and orthography
2: Mairi McLaughlin: Morphology and syntax
3: Richard Huyghe and Dominique Legallois: Semantics and pragmatics
Part II. History of French
4: Philippe Caron: External history of French
5: Wendy Ayres-Bennett: Language policy and planning
6: Olivia Walsh and Douglas Kibbee: Metalinguistic texts
7: Thomas Rainsford: Historical phonetics, phonology, and orthography
8: Sophie Prévost: Historical morphology and syntax
9: Sabine Lehmann: Historical semantics and pragmatics
Part III. Axes of variation
10: Nigel Armstrong: Age, gender, and social class
11: Jenelle Thomas: Register, genre, text type
12: Janice Carruthers: Spoken French
13: Rachel Panckhurst, Louise-Amélie Cougnon, and Cédrick Fairon: French digital discourse
Part IV. French around the world
14: Mathieu Avanzi: Regional variation in the French of France
15: André Thibault: Francophonie
16: Isabelle Racine: French in Europe
17: Barbara E. Bullock and Randall Gess: French in North America
18: Béatrice Akissi Boutin and Augustin Emmanuel Ebongue: French in Africa
Part V. French in contact with other languages
19: Maya Angela Eipe Smith: Multilingualism
20: Georg Kremnitz and Fañch Broudic: French and the languages of France
21: Nicolas Froeliger and Rudy Loock: Translation and interpreting
22: Thomas A. Klingler: Creoles
Part VI. Second language acquisition
23: Richard Kern: Where, when, and how French is learned
24: Sylvain Detey: Acquiring phonetics and phonology
25: Dalila Ayoun: Acquiring morphology and syntax
26: Henry Tyne and Martin Howard: Acquiring lexical, sociolinguistic, and pragmatic competence
Part VII. French in literature, culture, arts, and the media
27: Sophie Marnette: French language and literature in the Middle Ages
28: Gilles Siouffi: Early Modern French language and literature
29: Laurence Rosier: Contemporary French language and literature
30: Michaël Abecassis: French language and cinema
31: Claire Lesacher: French language and vocal music
32: Marcel Burger: French and the media
