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| Title: | The Emergence of Emphatic 'ne' in Conversational Swiss French |
| Author: | Bonnibeth Beale Fonseca-Greber |
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| Institution: | Bowling Green State University |
| Linguistic Field: | Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics |
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| Abstract: | This study explores 'ne' use in a previously unexamined variety of French: Swiss French. Based on a corpus of conversation among friends and family recorded at home, the results of this study show the lowest 'ne' use reported for adult, middle-class speakers of European French, 2.5%. It also shows that 'ne' functions micro-stylistically to effect micro-shifts in register allowing speakers to enact the institutional talk of public discourse. Finally, a new function appears to emerge: the use of 'ne' as an emphatic, where it tends to appear in foregrounded clauses often with other emphatics, functioning as speaker evaluation or involvement. |
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This article appears in Journal of French Language Studies Vol. 17, Issue 3, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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