Linguistic Purism. Language Attitudes in France and Quebec
- Submitting institution
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University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 1331826
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1075/impact.41
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing
- ISBN
- 9789027258335
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 103,000-word (324pp.) monograph is the first in-depth, comparative investigation of linguistic purism in modern French. Primary sources include French/Québécois policy documents; language society websites; two online questionnaires with over 1500 respondents; and face-to-face interviews with 72 participants. This allows a comparison of the ‘voice from above’ and the ‘voice from below’, a key element in recent language planning discussions but rarely provided in studies of French. The study applies to empirical data Thomas’s widely cited theoretical framework for describing linguistic purism (1991), refining it to enhance the theoretical underpinnings of the field.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Chapter 4 of the monograph is a reworking of c. 5000 words of an earlier article: Walsh, O. (2013) ‘Les associations de langue en France et au Québec sont-elles puristes ?’, Information grammaticale, 36: 33-40; submitted to REF2014. The original article discussed four languages; the book chapter considers fifteen.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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