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A sociolinguistic history of Parisian French

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2006

Ralph Grillo
Ralph Grillo
Affiliation:
Anthropology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, BN1 9SJ, r.d.grillo@sussex.ac.uk
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R. A. Lodge, A sociolinguistic history of Parisian French. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 290. Hb $70.

Detailed longitudinal studies of urban sociolinguistic change are few and far between. They are intrinsically difficult and of vast scope and pose severe theoretical and methodological problems concerning the availability and reliability of data. Lodge's survey of how the speech of Paris “has evolved hand in hand with demographic and socio-economic change” (p. 250), over some 800 years, is a largely convincing attempt to overcome these problems.

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Language in Society , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , April 2006 , pp. 300 - 303
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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Hohenberg, P. M., & Lees, L. H. (1985). The making of urban Europe 1000–1950. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.