The Vocabulary of Modern French: Origins, Structure and Function - Hardcover
The Vocabulary of Modern French provides a fresh insight into contemporary French.
With this book, Hilary Wise offers the first comprehensive overview of the modern French vocabulary: its historical sources, formal organisation and social and stylistic functions.
Topics covered include:
* external influences on the language
* word formation
* semantic change
* style and register
In addition, the author looks at the relationship between social and lexical change and examines attempts at intervention in the development of the language.
Each chapter is concluded by notes for further reading, and by suggestions for project work which are designed to increase awareness of specific lexical phenomena and enable the student-reader to use lexicographic databases of all kinds.
The Vocabulary of Modern French is an accessible and fascinating study of the relationship between a nation and its language, as well as providing a key text for all students of modern French.
With this book, Hilary Wise offers the first comprehensive overview of the modern French vocabulary: its historical sources, formal organisation and social and stylistic functions.
Topics covered include:
* external influences on the language
* word formation
* semantic change
* style and register
In addition, the author looks at the relationship between social and lexical change and examines attempts at intervention in the development of the language.
Each chapter is concluded by notes for further reading, and by suggestions for project work which are designed to increase awareness of specific lexical phenomena and enable the student-reader to use lexicographic databases of all kinds.
The Vocabulary of Modern French is an accessible and fascinating study of the relationship between a nation and its language, as well as providing a key text for all students of modern French.
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About the Author:
Hilary Wise teaches at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.
Review:
'This work is a mine of lexical information and a rich source of examples for both the specialist and the non-specialist.' - New Zealand Journal of French Studies
'... an admirably comprehensive and user-friendly survey...' - Years Work in Modern Language Studies
'Her full, informative, and very sensible study remains engagingly readablethis book is overall intelligently conceived and judiciously executed.' - Stephen F. Noreiko, French Language Studies (Vol 10)
'... an admirably comprehensive and user-friendly survey...' - Years Work in Modern Language Studies
'Her full, informative, and very sensible study remains engagingly readablethis book is overall intelligently conceived and judiciously executed.' - Stephen F. Noreiko, French Language Studies (Vol 10)
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0415117380
- ISBN 13 9780415117388
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages270
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