Module Identifier FR23020  
Module Title THE INVENTION OF FRENCH  
Academic Year 2000/2001  
Co-ordinator Professor David Trotter  
Semester Semester 2  
Mutually Exclusive FR33020 You may not study FR33020 in your final year if you choose FR23020 in the second year.  
Course delivery Lecture   10 Hours  
  Seminars / Tutorials   4 Hours  
  Practical   2 Hours Either 4 x 1 hr or 2 x 2 hr, depending on availability of the Language Laboratories  
Assessment Course work   Two coursework assignments (c.2,500 words each)   100%  
  Resit assessment   Resit will be by resubmission of assessed work    

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 Lists
Books
** Recommended Background
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
Cerquiglini, Bernard. (1993) La naissance du francais. Paris University Press
Green, John, & Ayres-Bennett, Wendy (eds). Variation and change in French: essays presented to Rebecca Posner on the occasion of her sixtieth birthday.
Lodge, R. (1993) French: From Dialect to Standard. Routledge
Posner, Rebecca. (1997) Linguistic Change in French. Oxford University Press