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Attitudes towards English in France

Walsh, Olivia

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Andrew Linn
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Neil Bermel
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Gibson Ferguson
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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
Online Publication Date Apr 15, 2015
Publication Date Jul 20, 2015
Deposit Date Jan 12, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
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

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