OLIVIA WALSH Olivia.Walsh@nottingham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Attitudes towards English in France
Walsh, Olivia
Authors
Contributors
Andrew Linn
Editor
Neil Bermel
Editor
Gibson Ferguson
Editor
Abstract
© 2015 Walter de Gruyter, Inc., Berlin/Boston. It is often claimed that French speakers display a particularly high level of concern about the effect that English has on the French language. The Académie française is seen to be representative of such an outlook, as are the many official measures taken to protect the language from English influence, such as the introduction of the 1975 Bas-Lauriol and 1994 Toubon laws, which attempt to curtail the use of English in certain official domains, and the creation of bodies such as the Délégation à la langue française et aux langues de France and the French terminology commissions, which introduce replacement French terms for English borrowings. These all relate to language activity at the official level, however. If we are to provide a representative picture of attitudes towards English in contemporary France, it is important to consider language activity at the non-official level also. This chapter therefore investigates the language use and attitudes of individual members of the speech community in France towards the English language in general and, more specifically, towards the use of Anglicisms in French, to determine whether "ordinary" speakers of French in France reflect the concerns displayed at the official level.
Citation
Walsh, O. (2015). Attitudes towards English in France. In . A. Linn, N. Bermel, & G. Ferguson (Eds.), Attitudes towards English in Europe: English in Europe, Volume 1 (27-54). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614515517-003
Acceptance Date | Feb 5, 2014 |
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Online Publication Date | Apr 15, 2015 |
Publication Date | Jul 20, 2015 |
Deposit Date | Jan 12, 2016 |
Publicly Available Date | Feb 5, 2019 |
Publisher | De Gruyter |
Pages | 27-54 |
Series Title | Language and Social Life |
Series Number | 2 |
Book Title | Attitudes towards English in Europe: English in Europe, Volume 1 |
Chapter Number | 3 |
ISBN | 9781614517351 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614515517-003 |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1107136 |
Contract Date | Nov 21, 2018 |
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