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- Title
Stylistic and discursive functions of French negative particle ne in an educational context[The resear].
- Authors
Mougeon, Raymond; Rehner, Katherine
- Abstract
This study examines use/non-use of negative particle ne by students and teachers in the high schools of four Ontario Francophone communities. The students were recorded in semi-directed interviews and in the classroom. The teachers recorded themselves in the classroom. In the interviews, ne use is marginal and its non-use ubiquitous and not influenced by social class, gender or topic formality. Overall, students do not use ne significantly more in the classroom than in the interviews. These findings do not support the hypothesis in some studies that ne use is a hyper-stylistic variant, which hinged on the prescription of ne use in writing. In the classroom, however, teachers display markedly different levels of ne use/non-use according to subject taught, speaker age, and addressee/discourse functions performed. Thus, there is some evidence that ne use/non-use is not entirely devoid of stylistic markedness, at least for teachers in the formal setting of the classroom. Finally, an examination of ne use/non-use co-occurring with two phonological variants of post-verbal negator plus reveals findings that are germane to the debate concerning the possibility of analysing stylistic variation in spoken French as a form of diglossic code-switching.
- Subjects
ONTARIO; CANADIAN French; NEGATIVES (Grammar); SPOKEN French; SECONDARY education; HIGH school students; HIGH school teachers; PARTICLES (Grammar); MARKEDNESS (Linguistics); DIGLOSSIA (Linguistics)
- Publication
Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2015, Vol 19, Issue 5, p585
- ISSN
1360-6441
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/josl.12164