A History of the French Language Through TextsRoutledge, 27 juin 2005 - 320 pages This new history of the French language allows the reader to see how the language has evolved for themselves. It combines texts and extracts with a readable and detailed commentary allowing the language to be viewed both synchronically and diachronically. Core texts range from the ninth century to the present day highlight central features of the language, whilst a range of shorter texts illustrate particular points. The inclusion of non-literary, as well as literary texts serves to illustrate some of the many varieties of French whether in legal, scientific, epistolatory, administrative or liturgical or in more popular domains, including attempts to represent spoken usage. This is essential reading for the undergraduate student of French. |
Table des matières
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The language of the earliest texts AD 842 to the end of the 11th century | 15 |
the earliest vernacular text | 16 |
The Sequence of Saint Eulalia c 88082 | 31 |
Extract from the Bilingual Sermon on Jonah c 93752 | 40 |
La Vie de Saint Alexis mid11th century | 46 |
The heyday of Old French French in the 12th and 13th centuries 1882 2 | 50 |
La Chanson de Roland early 12th century | 60 |
Ambroise Paré La Methode de traicter les playes faictes par hacquebutes et aultres bastons à feu 1545 | 160 |
André Thevet Les Singularitez de la France Antarctique 15578 | 167 |
Louis Meigret Le Tretté de la grammere françoęze 1550 | 171 |
Classical and NeoClassical French French in the 17th and 18th centuries up to the Revolution | 178 |
Claude Favre de Vaugelas Remarques sur la langue françoise 1647 | 180 |
François de Sales Introduction à la vie dévote early 17th century | 188 |
Voltaire Candide 1759 | 193 |
PierreAmbroiseFrançois Choderlos de Laclos Les Liaisons dangereuses 1782 | 198 |
Le Chevalier de la charrette c 117781 | 68 |
Le Jeu de saint Nicolas c 1200 | 72 |
The Old French Bible first half of the 13th century | 74 |
Geoffroy de Villehardouin The Conquest of Constantinople early 13th century | 80 |
The Lettre dHippocrate mid13th century 11 Donation testamentaire 1239 | 88 |
Lettre de Jean Sarrasin à Nicolas Arrode 23 June 1249 | 95 |
Middle French French in the 14th and 15th centuries | 98 |
Cent nouvelles nouvelles mid15th century | 100 |
Alain Chartier Le Quadrilogue invectif 1422 | 108 |
Le Testament Villon mid15th century | 114 |
La Farce de Maître Pathelin mid15th century | 119 |
Le Menagier de Paris end of the 14th century | 123 |
Land sale 23 May 1380 | 128 |
Nicolas Chuquet Le Triparty en la science des nombres late 15th century | 132 |
La Manière de langage end of the 14th century | 136 |
Renaissance French French in the 16th century | 140 |
François Rabelais Gargantua 1534 | 142 |
Michel de Montaigne Essais 1588 | 149 |
Jean Calvin Institution de la religion chrestienne 1541 | 153 |
Robert Olivétans translation of the Bible 1535 | 157 |
Jean Racine Britannicus 1669 | 204 |
Mercure de France 1732 | 207 |
Victor Riqueti marquis de Mirabeau and François Quesnay Philosophie rurale ou économie générale et politique de lagriculture 17634 | 212 |
Jean Héroards record of the Dauphins speech early 17th century | 216 |
an early example of Haitian Creole mid18th century | 222 |
Modern French From the Revolution to the present day | 229 |
Michel Tournier Gaspard Melchior Balthazar 1980 | 232 |
Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary 18567 | 238 |
Robert Desnos Langage cuit 1923 | 242 |
Gagarin in space | 244 |
Annales de lInstitut Pasteur Microbiologie 1986 | 248 |
Decree of the National Assembly 20 July 1790 | 252 |
Jacques Cellard Chroniques de langage 1972 | 255 |
Spoken Midi French | 260 |
Antonine Maillet La Sagouine 1971 | 267 |
Summary of main linguistic features | 274 |
Glossary of selected technical terms and guide to the sounds of Modern French | 288 |
Suggestions for further reading | 292 |
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