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Quatre niveaux de langue tels que refletés par le Petit Robert

University of British Columbia

Four levels of spoken French are reflected by the Petit Robert, one of the more widely used French dictionaries. Our aim was to explore the dictionary's conveyance not only of the lexicographic evolution of the four levels of French — familier, populaire, vulgaire, and argotique - but also of the evolution of interactions between social classes and the spoken word. In the scope of the four levels of French, all modifications between the 1967 edition and the 1978 edition of the Petit Robert have been recorded. As the data was being processed by the computer, patterns began to emerge, providing some clues as to how the four levels of language have evolved in the span of eleven years and how society's attitudes and values may have changed in that period. The introduction of the thesis deals primarily with the role of the dictionary in its social context. Each of the four chapters first discusses the definition of the one of the four levels of language and then considers the data obtained in light of that definition. In addition, the appendix contains an alphabetically tabulated date base from the two editions of the Petit Robert.

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2010-03-30

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http://hdl.handle.net/2429/23099

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