Some Social Factors Affecting the French Spoken in Lewiston, Maine
Item
Title
Some Social Factors Affecting the French Spoken in Lewiston, Maine
Creator
Bernard, Ireène Mailhot
Description
Dissertation on the relationship between the French language and Franco American culture in Lewiston, Maine in the twentieth century. Historical background of Maine French speakers. Theories and methods in the study of French in New England as introduction and comparison to the author's own survey research in Lewiston. Contents and results of a linguistic questionnaire given various French speakers in Lewiston. From the author: "Using a broadly based survey of the French spoken in Lewiston, Maine this thesis treats the question of the levels of Franco-American speech. The relationship of language features to social factors is studied by means of a computer-aided analysis of a representative sample of the French-speaking population" (iii, Abstract).
Publisher
State College, Pennsylvania
Date
1982
Language
en; fr
Type
Thesis
Coverage
20th century; Lewiston, Maine
URL
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