Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• George, Ken

Titel

Rézeau, Pierre (ed.), Dictionnaire des régionalismes de France. Géographie et histoire d'un patrimoine linguistique. Bruxelles: De Boeck & Larcier – Éditions Duculot, 2001, 1140 pp. 2 8011 1282 8

Ist Teil von

• Journal of French Language Studies, 2002-03, Vol.12 (1), p.95-121

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2002

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The cultural, he says, is untranslatable, so oral language is untranslatable. Since regional and class accents are only meaningful within a single cultural system, it follows that a translator cannot hope to convey the sub-text of accented speech used in the representation of ctional characters. In the detailed historical account that is Chaudenson's, the arguments put forward are indeed compelling, particularly the attention paid to the sociological conditions prevalent during the creation of the slave colonies, but there is a sense in which Chaudenson is arguing towards a conclusion he has already drawn. Because for him pidgins are, a priori, dened as a trade language, the author is able to claim that it is impossible for them to have given rise to Creoles. There are even uncanny if fortuitous parallels with English. [...]in Lorraine, one hears Mon! quel sale temps `My! what lthy weather', while in Toulousain, the absence of the denite article is normal: in June 2000, at the time of the local oods, France 2 showed a young reman shouting `Garonne monte! Far from marking relative proximity in time, or greater precision as is often claimed, the present pro futuro is seen as having a modal value, indicating a future event perceived as certain and scheduled. [...]the present, not the future, is pragmatically all but obligatory in: