Vladislav Rjéoutski et al (Editors). European Francophonie: The Social, Political and Cultural History of an International Prestige Language

Peter Lang, 2014. — 498 pages. — (Historical Sociolinguistics). — ISBN: 978-3-0353-0630-9.This volume examines the use of French in European language communities outside France from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The phenomenon of French language usage is explored in a wide variety of communities, namely Bohemian, Dutch, medieval English, German (Prussian), Italian, Piedmontese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. Each chapter offers unique insight into the existence of francophonie in a given language community by providing illustrations of language usage and detailed descriptions of various aspects of it. The volume as a whole explores such sociolinguistic matters as bilingualism and multilingualism, the use of French as a lingua franca and prestige language, language choice and code-switching, variations in language usage depending on class or gender, language attitudes and language education. The sociohistorical and sociocultural matters considered include the association of a variety of language with the court, nobility or some other social group; the function of French as a vehicle for the transmission of foreign cultures; and the role of language in the formation of identity of various kinds (national, social and personal).European Francophonie and a Framework for Its Study
Diglossia in Early Modern Europe
The French of Medieval England
Knowledge of French in Piedmont
The Two Latin Sisters: Representations of the French and the French Language in Italy
The Use of French among the Dutch Elites in Eighteenth-Century Holland
The Domains of Francophonie and Language Ideology in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Prussia
Aristocratic Francophone Literature in Bohemia
Francophonies in Spain
French in Sweden in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
The Presence of Francophonie in Poland from the Sixteenth Century to the Eighteenth
The Beginnings and the Golden Age of Francophonie among the Romanians
Francophonie in Imperial Russia
French in Ottoman Turkey: ‘The Language of the Afflicted Peoples’?