Defending the French language: an online battle?

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Defending the French language: an online battle?

This study investigates the metalinguistic discourse of Twitter users in the French language. It is often claimed that France is a country in which standard language ideology and prescriptivism are deeply entrenched. In modern society, the internet seems to have become a popular space to share and e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Humphries, Emma
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2017
Subjects:	sociolinguistics; purism; standardisation; French; Twitter; CMC; metalanguage
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/39671/

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