This course aims to study the main varieties of the French language across Francophone nations and cultures around the world. It will enable students to familiarize themselves with key differences between standardized, non-standardized varieties, as well as semi-creolized and creolized varieties of French as it is spoken and written in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and in nations of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Special emphasis will be placed on concepts of language change, internal and external variation, linguistic restriction, convergence and divergence, the linguistic market, and social networks. Students will also be introduced to the main variables and social factors used in variationist sociolinguistics. They will be required to give oral and written presentations, drawing on relevant cases in Canada and the French-speaking world. Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hoursPrerequisite(s): FREN 125.3 or FREN 212.3 Note: Students with credit for FREN 398 French Variations across Nations and Cultures may not take this course for credit.
This course aims to study the main varieties of the French language across Francophone nations and cultures around the world. It will enable students to familiarize themselves with key differences between standardized, non-standardized varieties, as well as semi-creolized and creolized varieties of French as it is spoken and written in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and in nations of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Special emphasis will be placed on concepts of language change, internal and external variation, linguistic restriction, convergence and divergence, the linguistic market, and social networks. Students will also be introduced to the main variables and social factors used in variationist sociolinguistics. They will be required to give oral and written presentations, drawing on relevant cases in Canada and the French-speaking world. Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hoursPrerequisite(s): FREN 125.3 or FREN 212.3 Note: Students with credit for FREN 398 French Variations across Nations and Cultures may not take this course for credit.
