| Module Identifier | FR33020 | ||
| Module Title | THE INVENTION OF FRENCH | ||
| Academic Year | 2000/2001 | ||
| Co-ordinator | Professor David Trotter | ||
| Semester | Semester 2 | ||
| Mutually Exclusive | FR23020 You may not study FR33020 if you have already completed FR23020 | ||
| Course delivery | Lecture | 10 Hours | |
| Seminars / Tutorials | 6 Hours | ||
| Practical | 4 x 1 hour or 2 x 2 hours depending on availability of Language Laboratories | ||
| Assessment | Course work | 2 x 2,500 word assignments | 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
Cerquiglini, Bernard. (1993)
La naissance du francais. Paris: PUF
Green, John and Ayres-Bennett,Wendy (eds). (1990)
Variation and change in French: essays presented to R. Posner on the occasion of her 60th birthday. London: Routledge
Lodge,R A. (1993)
French: From Dialect to Standard. London: Routledge
Posner, Rebecca. (1997)
Linguistic Change in French. Oxford: OUP
Parry, MM, Davies, W V & Temple, RAM (eds). (1994)
The changing voices of Europe. Cardiff: University of Wales Press/MHRA