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Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Sociolinguistic variation in seventeenth-century French: Methodology and case studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2007

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Sciences du Langage, Université de Paris-X, Nanterre, France, gadet@u-paris10.fr
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Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Sociolinguistic variation in seventeenth-century French: Methodology and case studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xii, 267. Hb $95.00

Wendy Ayres-Bennett (WAB hereafter) is a British French-language scholar, well known to philologists and historical grammarians. She is an authority on 17th-century language matters, in particular on Vaugelas and the remarqueurs (authors of observations on le bon usage, destined for those wishing to speak good French at a time when it was the mother tongue of a minority living in France). In this most recent contribution, she departs from preconceived ideas and typical disciplinary boundaries by using sociolinguistics to look at the history of the language in a project that brings to mind the work of Milroy 1992 on English and Lodge 1993, 2004 on French.

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Language in Society , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , July 2007 , pp. 434 - 437
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Ernst, G. (1985). Gesprochenes Französisch zu Beginn des 17. Jahrhunderts: Direkte Rede in Jean Héroards Histoire particulière de Louis XIII (1605–1610). Tübingen: Niemeyer.
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Lodge, R. A. (2004). A sociolinguistic history of Parisian French. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRef
Milroy, J. (1992). Linguistic variation and change: On the historical sociolinguistics of English. Oxford: Blackwell.

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