| Description |
1 online resource (v, 134 pages) |
| Series |
Current issues in language and society |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface / Evans, Howard -- Préface / Evans, Howard -- Le français, langue d'accueil : chronologie, typologie et dynamique / Walter, Henriette -- French -- An Accommodating Language: The Chronology, Typology and Dynamics of Borrowing / Walter, Henriette -- La métaphore de l'emprunt: implications pour une théorie de l'évolution des langues. Réponse à Henriette Walter / Gardner-Chloros, Pénélope -- The Metaphor of Borrowing: Implications for a Theory of Language Evolution. A Response to Henriette Walter / Gardner-Chloros, Penelope -- Le dérèglement du système de pensée français: l'angoisse secrète des puristes? Réponse à Henriette Walter / Dewaele, Jean-Marc -- Is it the Corruption of French Thought Processes that Purists Fear? A Response to Henriette Walter / Dewaele, Jean-Marc -- La dimension politique de l'emprunt et la réaction française. Réponse à Henriette Walter / Ager, Dennis -- The Political Dimension of Borrowings and French Reactions. A Response to Henriette Walter / Ager, Dennis -- Le français, langue d'accueil ou langue sur la défensive? Réponse à Henriette Walter (in translation) / Judge, Anne -- Is French Really Open to Outside Influences? A Response to Henriette Walter / Judge, Anne -- Itinéraires étymologiques. Quelques mots en supplément / Offord, Malcolm -- Etymological Routes: Some Supplementary Remarks / Offord, Malcolm -- La réforme de l'orthographe en France et en Allemagne: attitudes et réactions / Ball, Rodney -- Spelling Reform in France and Germany: Attitudes and Reactions / Ball, Rodney -- Le français de Belgique filerait-il à l'anglaise? / Labeau, Emmanuelle -- Is French in Belgium More Susceptible to English Influence? / Labeau, Emmanuelle -- Book Review / Ansorge, Jocelyne / Wright, Sue |
| Summary |
The noted linguist Henriette Walter is a well known media figure in France, who has used her extensive range of scholarly work to take a stance in the current debate on the French language and to debunk the idea that the language is under threat. She shows that French has always been an accommodating language - une langue d'accueil - taking in words from many different sources. This bilingual volume makes Mme Walter's approach accessible to English speakers and provides reactions to it from a number of scholars working in British universities |
| Analysis |
French language |
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Henriette Walter |
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Le francais |
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bilingualism |
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language planning |
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language policy |
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language threat |
| Notes |
Also available as vol. 6, no. 3 & 4 of the journal, Current issues in language and society |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Chapters in French with accompanying English version |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
French language -- Foreign words and phrases.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- French.
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French language -- Foreign words and phrases
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wright, Sue, 1947-
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| ISBN |
1853596787 |
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9781853596780 |
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9781853595042 |
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1853595047 |
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