Chapter 6. Observing Eurolects

Patin, Stéphane; Megale, Fabrizio

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“…Another possible correlation could be with 'time since accession' (variable A): in fact French, Italian and Dutch are founding languages and Spain also joined the EU relatively early, in the 1980s. In particular, detailed corpus analyses of these Eurolects revealed the extensive representation of the conservative character of legal and administrative writing styles in their national corpora of implementation (Blini, 2018;De Sutter and De Bock, 2018;Mori, 2018c;Patin and Megale, 2018).…”

Section: Feature Group 3: Intralinguistic Variabilitymentioning

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Mapping Eurolects

Mori

Szmrecsanyi

2020

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Based on the description of EU legislative varieties covering EU directives and their national laws of implementation in 11 languages, we are interested in the extent to which Eurolects are similar to each other, above and beyond trivial genealogical similarities. We thus utilise a variation-oriented aggregative analysis technique to address these questions: (a) What is the precise extent to which Eurolects are similar to each other? (b) Are similarities predicted by extra-linguistic affinities? (c) Do factors such as EU accession dates and language policy play a role in shaping the Eurolect clusters? Our methodology starts out from a meticulously catalogued list of corpus-based lexical and grammatical features. Through the observed presence or absence of these features, we calculate in a second step the aggregate linguistic distances between all of the Eurolects. Finally, in step three, we use a well-established technique, Multidimensional Scaling, to visualize and interpret the Eurolect landscape.

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Section: Feature Group 3: Intralinguistic Variabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping Eurolects

Mori

Szmrecsanyi

2020

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Chapter 14. Conclusions

Mori

2018

Studies in Corpus Linguistics

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The Oxford Handbook of the French Language

2024

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This volume provides the first comprehensive reference work in English on the French language in all its facets. It offers a wide-ranging approach to the rich, varied, and exciting research across multiple subfields, with seven broad thematic sections covering the structures of French; the history of French; axes of variation; French around the world; French in contact with other languages; second language acquisition; and French in literature, culture, arts, and the media. Each chapter presents the state of the art and directs readers to canonical studies and essential works, while also exploring cutting-edge research and outlining future directions. The Oxford Handbook of the French Language serves both as a reference work for people who are curious to know more about the French language and as a starting point for those carrying out new research on the language and its many varieties. It will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students as well as established scholars, whether they are specialists in French linguistics or researchers in a related field looking to learn more about the language. The diversity of frameworks, approaches, and scholars in the volume demonstrates above all the variety, vitality, and vibrancy of work on the French language today

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Chapter 6. Observing Eurolects

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