A History of the French Language Through Texts
eBook - ePub

A History of the French Language Through Texts

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A History of the French Language Through Texts

About this book

This new history of the French language allows the reader to see how the language has evolved for themselves. It combines texts and extracts with a readable and detailed commentary allowing the language to be viewed both synchronically and diachronically. Core texts range from the ninth century to the present day highlight central features of the language, whilst a range of shorter texts illustrate particular points. The inclusion of non-literary, as well as literary texts serves to illustrate some of the many varieties of French whether in legal, scientific, epistolatory, administrative or liturgical or in more popular domains, including attempts to represent spoken usage. This is essential reading for the undergraduate student of French.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Symbols
  8. Figures
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction
  11. I The Language of the Earliest Texts: AD 842 to The End of the Eleventh Century
  12. II The ‘Heyday' of Old French: French in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
  13. III Middle French: French in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
  14. IV Renaissance French: French in the Sixteenth Century
  15. V Classical and Neo-Classical French: French in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries up to the Revolution
  16. VI Modern French: From the Revolution to the Present Day
  17. Appendix I: Summary of Main Linguistic Features
  18. Appendix II Glossary of Selected Technical Terms and Guide to the Sounds of Modern French
  19. Appendix III Suggestions for Further Reading
  20. References