During Germany's occupation of France in WWII, French regional languages became a way for people to assert their local identities. This book offers a detailed historical sociolinguistic analysis of the various language policies applied in France's regions (Brittany, Southern France, Corsica and Alsace) before, during and after WWII.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: A. Amit
EAN: 9781349453030
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 261 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-01-01
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GENRE: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, HISTORY / Europe / France, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
WIDTH: 140 cm
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Book Themes:
France, Romance, Italic and Rhaeto-Romanic languages, Language: reference and general, Sociolinguistics, General and world history, European history, Social and cultural history, Second World War
“Amit’s book certainly makes a vital contribution to the scholarly field of French language policy, French history, and national minorities through a historical-sociolinguistic lens. Graduate students and scholars working in these areas will find the historical-sociolinguistic trajectories of the various language policies applied in France’s regions stimulating and thought-provoking.” (Elisabeth Barakos, Journal of Language and Politics, Vol. 18 (3), 2019)“In this rich and ambitious book … Aviv Amit sets out to compare the wartime sociolinguistic trajectories of four of France’s minority-language communities, namely Breton, Occitan, Corsican and Alsatian. … this book certainly makes recommended reading for anyone interested in French language policy or French national minorities.” (Geoffrey Roger, Language Policy, Vol. 15, 2016)
Aviv Amit is a Teaching Fellow at the Department of French Studies in Tel Aviv University, Israel. He has published numerous articles and a book in the area of sociolinguistics, language policy and language contacts.
