Nigel Armstrong

List of John Benjamins publications in which Nigel Armstrong is involved.

Titles

Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French

Edited by Kate Beeching, Nigel Armstrong and Françoise Gadet

Divided into three main sections on Phonology, Syntax and Semantics, this new volume on variation in French aims to provide a snapshot of the state of sociolinguistic research inside and outside metropolitan France. From a diatopic perspective, varieties in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Africa and… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 26] 2009. xi, 257 pp.

Social and Stylistic Variation in Spoken French: A comparative approach

Nigel Armstrong

Many of the assumptions of Labovian sociolinguistics are based on results drawn from US and UK English, Latin American Spanish and Canadian French. Sociolinguistic variation in the French of France has been rather little studied compared to these languages. This volume is the first examination and… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 8] 2001. x, 278 pp.

Articles

Armstrong, Nigel 2009 Introduction Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French, Beeching, Kate, Nigel Armstrong and Françoise Gadet (eds.), pp. 3–8 | Article

Armstrong, Nigel and Zoë Boughton 2009 Perception and production in French dialect leveling Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French, Beeching, Kate, Nigel Armstrong and Françoise Gadet (eds.), pp. 9–24 | Article

In the first part of this chapter we provide a rigorous definition of what might be meant by the proposition that the supralocal or dominant variety of the French of France is ‘leveled’. We consider firstly some evidence that supports the notion of leveling as the diminution of regional features,… read more