Gwybodaeth Modiwlau
Module Identifier
FR23020
Module Title
The Invention of French
Academic Year
2014/2015
Co-ordinator
Semester
Semester 2
Other Staff
Course Delivery
| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Lecture | 10 x 1-hour lectures |
| Seminars / Tutorials | 10 x 1-hour seminars |
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | Coursework: 2 x 2500 word assignments | 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Resit will be by resubmission of assessed work | 100% |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
- understand how one dialect amongst several becomes a language
- read critically conventional histories of French
- see how and why ideological presuppositions have influenced those histories
- understand the principal tenets of variationist linguistics
Brief description
A history of French from a variationist perspective, deliberately stressing the variety which has always existed in reality, and identifying the ways in which diversity has been stifled in the life of the language, and has been camouflaged in histories of French.
Reading List
Recommended BackgroundCerquiglini, Bernard (1993) La naissance du francais Paris University Press Primo search Green, John, & Ayres-Bennett, Wendy (eds) Variation and change in French: essays presented to Rebecca Posner on the occasion of her sixtieth birthday Primo search Lodge, R (1993) French: From Dialect to Standard Routledge Primo search Parry, M M, Davies, W V, and Temple, R A M (eds) (1994) The changing voices of Europe: social and political change and their linguistic repercussions, past, present and future University of Wales Press/MHRA Primo search Posner, Rebecca (1997) Linguistic Change in French Oxford University Press Primo search
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 5