Varieties of Contemporary French
Author : M. H. Offord
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 17,45 MB
Release : 1990
Category : French language
ISBN :
Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French
Author : Kate Beeching
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902721865X
Book Description
Divided into three main sections on Phonology, Syntax and Semantics, this new volume on variation in French aims to provide a snapshot of the state of sociolinguistic research inside and outside metropolitan France. From a diatopic perspective, varieties in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Africa and Canada are considered, mainly with respect to phonological features but also focusing on syntactic and lexical evolutions (the relative clause in Ivorian French and discourse markers in Canadian French). The acquisition of stylistic features of French figures in chapters on both first and second language learners and variation across different genres is addressed with respect to non-standard non-finite forms. Finally, a section on semantic change traces the way that interactional and other socio-historical factors affect word meaning. The volume will appeal to (socio-)linguists with an interest in contemporary French as well as to advanced undergraduates and post-graduate students of French and specialists in the field.
Contemporary French Administrative Law
Author : John Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 1316511162
Book Description
Introduces the key features of French administrative law and institutions to English-speaking readers.
Imagining the popular in contemporary French culture
Author : Diana Holmes
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 17,70 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1526130262
Book Description
This groundbreaking book is about what ‘popular culture’ means in France, and how the term’s shifting meanings have been negotiated and contested. It represents the first theoretically informed study of the way that popular culture is lived, imagined, fought over and negotiated in modern and contemporary France. It covers a wide range of overarching concerns: the roles of state policy, the market, political ideologies, changing social contexts and new technologies in the construction of the popular. But it also provides a set of specific case studies showing how popular songs, stories, films, TV programmes and language styles have become indispensable elements of ‘culture’ in France. Deploying yet also rethinking a ‘Cultural Studies’ approach to the popular, the book therefore challenges dominant views of what French culture really means today.
French Modern
Author : Paul Rabinow
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 30,19 MB
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 022622757X
Book Description
In this study of space and power and knowledge in France from the 1830s through the 1930s, Rabinow uses the tools of anthropology, philosophy, and cultural criticism to examine how social environment was perceived and described. Ranging from epidemiology to the layout of colonial cities, he shows how modernity was revealed in urban planning, architecture, health and welfare administration, and social legislation.
Contemporary Fiction in French
Author : Anna-Louise Milne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108658849
Book Description
Our global literary field is fluid and exists in a state of constant evolution. Contemporary fiction in French has become a polycentric and transnational field of vibrant and varied experimentation; the collapse of the distinction between 'French' and 'Francophone' literature has opened up French writing to a world of new influences and interactions. In this collection, renowned scholars provide thoughtful close readings of a whole range of genres, from graphic novels to crime fiction to the influence of television and film, to analyse modern French fiction in its historical and sociological context. Allowing students of contemporary French literature and culture to situate specific works within broader trends, the volume provides an engaging, global and timely overview of contemporary fiction writing in French, and demonstrates how our modern literary world is more complex and diverse than ever before.
Contemporary French and Scandinavian Crime Fiction
Author : Anne Grydehøj
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 30,97 MB
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 178683720X
Book Description
This book offers a study of Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and French crime fictions covering a fifty-year period. From 1965 to the present, both Scandinavian and French societies have undergone significant transformations. Twelve literary case studies examine how crime fictions in the respective contexts have responded to shifting social realities, which have in turn played a part in transforming the generic codes and conventions of the crime novel. At the centre of the book’s analysis is crime fiction’s negotiation of the French model of Republican universalism and the Scandinavian welfare state, both of which were routinely characterised as being in a state of crisis at the end of the twentieth century. Adopting a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book investigates the interplay between contemporary Scandinavian and French crime narratives, considering their engagement with the relationship of the state and the citizen, and notably with identity issues (class, gender, sexuality and ethnicity in particular).
Contemporary France
Author : David Howarth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 20,62 MB
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1444118870
Book Description
At least since the French Revolution, France has the peculair distinction of simultaneously fascinating, charming and exasperating its neighbours and foreign observers. Contemporary France provides an essential introduction for students of French politics and society, exploring contemporary developments while placing them in a deeper historical, intellectual, cultural and social context that makes for insightful analysis. Thus, chapters on France's economic policy and welfare state, its foreign and European policies and its political movements and recent institutional developments are informed by an analysis of the country's unique political and institutional traditions, distinct forms of nationalism and citizenship, dynamic intellectual life and recent social trends. Summaries of key political, economic and social movements and events are displayed as exhibits.
Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture
Author : Alexandra Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 20,42 MB
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1134788657
Book Description
More than 700 alphabetically organized entries by an international team of contributors provide a fascinating survey of French culture post 1945. Entries include: * advertising * Beur cinema * Coco Chanel * decolonization * écriture feminine * football * francophone press * gay activism * Seuil * youth culture Entries range from short factual/biographical pieces to longer overview articles. All are extensively cross-referenced and longer entries are 'facts-fronted' so important information is clear at a glance. It includes a thematic contents list, extensive index and suggestions for further reading. The Encyclopedia will provide hours of enjoyable browsing for all francophiles, and essential cultural context for students of French, Modern History, Comparative European Studies and Cultural Studies.
Paths to Contemporary French Literature, Volume 2
Author : John Taylor
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 23,84 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0765803704
Book Description
Although the great French novelists of the last two centuries are widely read in America, there is a widespread notion that little of importance has happened in French literature since the heyday of Sartre, Camus, and the nouveau roman. Curious American readers seeking new, up-to-date information and analyses will find in Paths to Contemporary French Literature a stimulating and much-needed guide to the major currents of one of the worldas great literatures. This critical panorama of contemporary French literature introduces English-language readers to over fifty important writers and poets. Emphasizing authors who are admired by their peers (as opposed to those with overnight reputations), John Taylor offers a compelling insideras view.
