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Romance dialectology: from the nineteenth century to the era of sociolinguistics

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In the late-nineteenth century, Romance and French dialectology was at the forefront of the geographic study of language diversity, most notably producing a substantial body of descriptions of local languages, atlases and analyses. The related questions concerning “laws” of language change, the geographical distribution of languages and the way in which communities react to change have constituted the template for a rich taxonomy which can be used for other regions of the world. We must nonetheless concede that it has since marginalized itself, on account of its often repetitive approach to variation. Absent from major disciplinary debates, it was one of the victims of the spread of “general” linguistics in the mid-twentieth century; whereas sociolinguistics in the 1970s assimilated certain methodological principles from it. Today a number of questions arise. Has dialectology, in the way it is described in this chapter, had its day, or is it possible that the insights and methods it provides will be significant once again in the construction of a unified theory of langue and parole in society?
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hal-03170024 , version 1 (15-03-2021)

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Francis Manzano. Romance dialectology: from the nineteenth century to the era of sociolinguistics. Manual of Romance Sociolinguistics [Wendy Ayres-Bennett & Janice Carruthers, dir.], De Gruyter, pp.134-170, 2018, ⟨10.1515/9783110365955-006⟩. ⟨hal-03170024⟩
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