10. Analyzing urban youth vernaculars in French cities: Lexicographical, variationist and ethnographic approaches
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Tim Pooley
Abstract
Alors qu’on constate un nivellement sociolinguistique avancé dans les français d’Europe, mais surtout en France, le langage vernaculaire des jeunes a parfois été présenté comme contre-exemple à cette tendance généralisée. Dans ce chapitre, je me propose de passer en revue tout d’abord les travaux à caractère lexicographique (dictionnaires et lexique), puis les études réalisées dans une optique variationniste – qu’il s’agisse du comportement ou des perceptions – et enfin quelques travaux à caractère ethnographique. Dans les dernières sections, je tente d’évaluer les travaux sur le français en attirant l’attention sur certains thèmes qui tiennent une large place dans les recherches sur les parlers jeunes des pays voisins, mais qui semblent absents des études consacrées à la France.
Against an overall national backdrop of sociolinguistic levelling in European varieties of French, particularly in France, youth vernaculars have sometimes been construed as a major counterexample to this general trend. Reviewing firstly work on dictionaries and lexicons, before moving on to variationist work carried out using behavioral and perceptual approaches and finally some examples of ethnographic work, this chapter then seeks to put the French work into perspective through a brief comparison with work in neighboring countries, drawing the reader’s attention to certain themes which appear important outside France but which are apparently absent from work on French youth slang.
Abstract
Alors qu’on constate un nivellement sociolinguistique avancé dans les français d’Europe, mais surtout en France, le langage vernaculaire des jeunes a parfois été présenté comme contre-exemple à cette tendance généralisée. Dans ce chapitre, je me propose de passer en revue tout d’abord les travaux à caractère lexicographique (dictionnaires et lexique), puis les études réalisées dans une optique variationniste – qu’il s’agisse du comportement ou des perceptions – et enfin quelques travaux à caractère ethnographique. Dans les dernières sections, je tente d’évaluer les travaux sur le français en attirant l’attention sur certains thèmes qui tiennent une large place dans les recherches sur les parlers jeunes des pays voisins, mais qui semblent absents des études consacrées à la France.
Against an overall national backdrop of sociolinguistic levelling in European varieties of French, particularly in France, youth vernaculars have sometimes been construed as a major counterexample to this general trend. Reviewing firstly work on dictionaries and lexicons, before moving on to variationist work carried out using behavioral and perceptual approaches and finally some examples of ethnographic work, this chapter then seeks to put the French work into perspective through a brief comparison with work in neighboring countries, drawing the reader’s attention to certain themes which appear important outside France but which are apparently absent from work on French youth slang.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- In memoriam vii
- Preface ix
- About the contributors xi
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Part I. First and second language acquisition
- 1. Evolving perspectives on learning French as a second language through immersion 3
- 2. Language production from a neurolinguistic perspective 37
- 3. Natural language processing tools and CALL 63
- 4. Specific language impairment in French 97
- 5. The first language acquisition of French from a generative perspective 135
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Part II. French in applied linguistics
- 6. The role and status of the French language in North Africa 185
- 7. Anthropological linguistic perspectives on writing Guadeloupean Kréyòl : Struggles for recognition of the language and struggles over authority 223
- 8. Literacy and technology in French language teaching: Issues and prospects 255
- 9. Forensic linguistics and French 295
- 10. Analyzing urban youth vernaculars in French cities: Lexicographical, variationist and ethnographic approaches 317
- 11. Language planning and policy in Quebec 345
- Name index 387
- Subject index 395
- English-French glossary 397
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- In memoriam vii
- Preface ix
- About the contributors xi
-
Part I. First and second language acquisition
- 1. Evolving perspectives on learning French as a second language through immersion 3
- 2. Language production from a neurolinguistic perspective 37
- 3. Natural language processing tools and CALL 63
- 4. Specific language impairment in French 97
- 5. The first language acquisition of French from a generative perspective 135
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Part II. French in applied linguistics
- 6. The role and status of the French language in North Africa 185
- 7. Anthropological linguistic perspectives on writing Guadeloupean Kréyòl : Struggles for recognition of the language and struggles over authority 223
- 8. Literacy and technology in French language teaching: Issues and prospects 255
- 9. Forensic linguistics and French 295
- 10. Analyzing urban youth vernaculars in French cities: Lexicographical, variationist and ethnographic approaches 317
- 11. Language planning and policy in Quebec 345
- Name index 387
- Subject index 395
- English-French glossary 397
