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Strasbourg, another setting for sociolinguistic variation in contemporary French

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2018

AGNES MARCHESSOU
AGNES MARCHESSOU*
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Birkbeck University of London
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Abstract

This paper reports on language practices in the city of Strasbourg, in a multi-ethnic working class neighbourhood. This provides a comparative setting to identify whether linguistic features are spreading between French cities. Data were collected from young speakers (16 to 21) using an ethnographic approach over a year. First, this paper will briefly review the literature on language variation research in France. Second, a comparison of vernacular features will be carried out, focusing on lexical innovations, indirect questions following the verb savoir (Gardner-Chloros and Secova, this issue), quotative systems (Cheshire and Secova, this issue) and discourse markers. Finally, the ethnographic data collected as part of this research will be used to consider how multi-ethnic working class neighbourhoods in France are connected with each other, and how language may be travelling between settings.

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Journal of French Language Studies , Volume 28 , Special Issue 2: Multicultural youth vernaculars in Paris and urban France , July 2018 , pp. 265 - 289
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