This book examines the interlinked history of Parisian speech and the Parisian population.

The Romance languages offer a particularly fertile ground for the exploration of the relationship between language and society in different social contexts and

This volume brings together two particularly dynamic areas of contemporary research on the French language. The chapters showcase the most innovative current sc

The authors explore some of the ways in which standardization, ideology and linguistics are interrelated. Through a number of case studies they show how concept

This book examines the variation found in modern spoken French, based on the research programme 'Phonology of Contemporary French' (Phonologie du Français Cont