Peter Rickard

A History of the French Language (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This well-established and popular book provides students with all the linguistic background they need for studying any period of French literature. For the second edition the text has been revised and updated throughout, and the two final chapters on contemporary French, and its position as a world language, have been completely rewritten. Starting with a brief description of the Vulgar Latin spoken in Gaul, and the earliest recorded forms of French, Peter Rickard traces the development of the language through the later Middle Ages and Renaissance to show how it became standardized in a near modern form in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134838783
• Artikelnr.: 42977208

Autorenporträt

Peter Rickard

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Preface to the second edition
Abbreviations and phonetic symbols
1. From Vulgar Latin to the recognition of the new vernacular
2. The language of the earliest French texts
3. Old French: language or dialect?
4. Middle French developments
5. Progress and prestige in the sixteenth century
6. Codification and standardisation: Classical and Neo-Classical French
7. From the Revolution to the present day
8. The defence of French
Appendix: The distribution of the French language in the world today
Suggestions for further reading
Index