Judging French. Lay and expert language commentary in nineteenth- and twenty-first-century France

Judging French. Lay and expert language commentary in nineteenth- and twenty-first-century France

This thesis presents a comparative study of French language commentary from two time periods, the late nineteenth and the early twenty-first centuries, and from two perspectives, expert and lay. It analyses four sources of language commentary to undertake two main comparisons. The first is a diachro...

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Main Author: Humphries, Emma
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2021
Subjects:
French; prescriptivism; metalanguage; purism; sociolinguistics; computer-mediated communication; historical sociolinguistics; language policing; correctness; language commentary; authority; metaphor; imagery
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64851/

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