Thesis
Vaugelas and the development of the French language
- Alternative title:
- theory and practice
- Abstract:
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My thesis attempts to provide an overall view of Vaugelas's work, to indicate the development of his ideas during his lifetime, to place the Remarques sur la langue françoise (1647) in a historical and sociological context, and to evaluate the importance of his ideas both for the writing of works on language and for the evolution of the French language itself.
Three principal lines of enquiry have been adopted - the historical, the linguistic, and the sociolinguistic. I have been c...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 1984
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- English
- Subjects:
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- Local pid:
- td:602332036
- Source identifiers:
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- Deposit date:
- 2014-07-22
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- Copyright holder:
- Ayres, Wendy Margaret
- Copyright date:
- 1984
- Notes:
- This thesis was digitised thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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