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Adli, Aria ORCID: 0000-0002-2177-7375 (2017). Variation in style. Register and lifestyle in Parisian French. In: Language Variation - European Perspectives VI, pp. 157-172. John Benjamins. ISBN 9789027234995

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Abstract

This study presents a sociolinguistic analysis of two linguistic variables of French, subject doubling and subject-verb inversion in wh-questions. First, factor and cluster analyses led to a grouping of the sample into four distinct lifestyle types. Then, statistical tests show that lifestyle, gender, and age are significant external factors, and that lifestyle exhibits the most salient effect. While the lifestyle associated with orthodoxy correlates with a high inversion rate (formal linguistic style) and low doubling rate (informal linguistic style), the group associated with heterodoxy demonstrates the inverse pattern. It stands to reason that sociolinguistic studies can uncover more patterns of variation if they go beyond the standard sociodemographic variables (such as age, gender, etc.) and a ‘narrow’ concept of class.

Item Type:	Book Section, Proceedings Item or annotation in a legal commentary
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Adli, Aria aria.adli@uni-koeln.de orcid.org/0000-0002-2177-7375 UNSPECIFIED
Editors:	Editors Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Buchstaller, Isabelle UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Siebenhaar, Beat UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
Corporate Creators:	Universität Leipzig
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-511260
DOI:	10.1075/silv.19.10adl
Title of Book:	Language Variation - European Perspectives VI
Series Name:	Studies in Language Variation
Volume:	19
Page Range:	pp. 157-172
Number of Pages:	237
Date:	2017
Publisher:	John Benjamins
ISSN:	1872-9592
ISBN:	9789027234995
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 5: Moderne Sprachen und Kulturen > Romanisches Seminar
Subjects:	Language, Linguistics
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/51126