European Francophonie
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European Francophonie

The Social, Political and Cultural History of an International Prestige Language

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  1. 498 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

European Francophonie

The Social, Political and Cultural History of an International Prestige Language

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About this book

This volume examines the use of French in European language communities outside France from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The phenomenon of French language usage is explored in a wide variety of communities, namely Bohemian, Dutch, medieval English, German (Prussian), Italian, Piedmontese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. Each chapter offers unique insight into the existence of francophonie in a given language community by providing illustrations of language usage and detailed descriptions of various aspects of it. The volume as a whole explores such sociolinguistic matters as bilingualism and multilingualism, the use of French as a lingua franca and prestige language, language choice and code-switching, variations in language usage depending on class or gender, language attitudes and language education. The sociohistorical and sociocultural matters considered include the association of a variety of language with the court, nobility or some other social group; the function of French as a vehicle for the transmission of foreign cultures; and the role of language in the formation of identity of various kinds (national, social and personal).

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Gesine Argent, Vladislav Rjéoutski and Derek Offord 1 European Francophonie and a Framework for Its Study
  5. Peter Burke 2 Diglossia in Early Modern Europe
  6. Marianne Ailes and Ad Putter 3 The French of Medieval England
  7. Alda Rossebastiano 4 Knowledge of French in Piedmont
  8. Nadia Minerva 5 The Two Latin Sisters: Representations of the French and the French Language in Italy
  9. Madeleine Van Strien-Chardonneau 6 The Use of French among the Dutch Elites in Eighteenth-Century Holland
  10. Manuela Böhm 7 The Domains of Francophonie and Language Ideology in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Prussia
  11. Ivo Cerman 8 Aristocratic Francophone Literature in Bohemia
  12. Amelia Sanz-Cabrerizo, Begoña Regueiro-Salgado, Luis Pablo-Núñez and Silviano Carrasco 9 Francophonies in Spain
  13. Margareta Östman 10 French in Sweden in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
  14. Maciej Serwański and Katarzyna Napierała 11 The Presence of Francophonie in Poland from the Sixteenth Century to the Eighteenth
  15. Ileana Mihaila 12 The Beginnings and the Golden Age of Francophonie among the Romanians
  16. Derek Offord 13 Francophonie in Imperial Russia
  17. Laurent Mignon 14 French in Ottoman Turkey: ‘The Language of the Afflicted Peoples’?
  18. Gesine Argent, Derek Offord and Vladislav Rjéoutski 15 Conclusion
  19. Notes on Contributors
  20. Index