{"id":10198,"date":"2025-11-21T09:48:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/french\/?page_id=10198"},"modified":"2025-11-24T11:39:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:39:26","slug":"french-linguistics-and-sociolinguistics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/french\/french-linguistics-and-sociolinguistics\/","title":{"rendered":"French Linguistics and Sociolinguistics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n French Linguistics and Sociolinguistics\n <\/h1>\n \n \n \n\n

After reaching an intermediate level in French, you will also be introduced in our programs to the world of French Linguistics and Sociolinguistics with a range of courses taught in French<\/em> about the French language, its structures, its uses and about social issues related to French and multilingualism arising in Canada and the rest of la Francophonie.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Our French Linguistics and Sociolinguistics Team\n <\/h2>\n <\/header>\n \n \n\n

\u00c9milie Urbain<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erik Anonby<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guillaume Gentil<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Salvio Digesto<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our team of professors is very active in linguistics, applied linguistics and sociolinguistics research. Don’t hesitate to reach out to them to learn more about their current projects!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

French Linguistics and Sociolinguistics at Carleton<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Our courses will introduce you to both linguistics (concerned with the formal description and analyses of French) and sociolinguistics (focused on French uses in social settings and social issues related to French and multilingualism). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where did the French language come from, and how has it changed over time? What are the differences between French in Canada and elsewhere? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

French linguistics opens up the world of this diverse and constantly evolving language. You\u2019ll get to learn about how people actually speak French, and how they feel about it when they do. Some highlights include learning about French accents, creoles, dialects, and even slang. Learn to transcribe spoken French using the International Phonetic Alphabet, make language maps, and draw tree diagrams of French words and sentences.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Did you know that Ontario is the province with the highest number of francophones outside of Qu\u00e9bec?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Take our course on FREN3417 French in Canada<\/strong> to learn more about the realities of French-speaking communities in the province and around Canada and to discover their specific language uses and accents.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Our course offering in French Linguistics and Sociolinguistics:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Please note that not all courses listed are offered in a given year. Some of the courses are rotated depending on professors’ availability. To know what courses are being offered this year, please consult our current <\/a>offering<\/a>.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Course code and name<\/th>Course description<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
FREN 2401 Introduction \u00e0 la linguistique fran\u00e7aise<\/td>\u00c9tude de la structure et du fonctionnement du syst\u00e8me linguistique \u00e0 travers l’analyse de donn\u00e9es du fran\u00e7ais (de France et du Canada). La construction du sens, des sons au discours; code oral et \u00e9crit.<\/td><\/tr>
FREN3411 Phon\u00e9tique et phonologie du fran\u00e7ais<\/td>\u00c9tude empirique et th\u00e9orique des \u00e9l\u00e9ments et syst\u00e8mes phon\u00e9tiques et phonologiques du fran\u00e7ais. Processus segmentaux et suprasegmentaux, structures syllabiques et prosodiques. Probl\u00e8mes classiques de la phonologie fran\u00e7aise.<\/td><\/tr>
FREN3412 Morphologie du fran\u00e7ais<\/td>\u00c9tude de la forme des unit\u00e9s lexicales et grammaticales du fran\u00e7ais et de leur port\u00e9e signifiante. Analyse du syst\u00e8me flexionnel du fran\u00e7ais et des m\u00e9canismes de formation des mots.<\/td><\/tr>
FREN3413 Syntaxe du fran\u00e7ais<\/td>\u00c9tudes de la structure et des composantes de la phrase: mots et syntagmes. Analyse syntaxique de la phrase simple et complexe. Mod\u00e8le hi\u00e9rarchique de l\u2019organisation de la phrase.<\/td><\/tr>
FREN3414 Sociolinguistique du fran\u00e7ais<\/td>Le fran\u00e7ais, une r\u00e9alit\u00e9 h\u00e9t\u00e9rog\u00e8ne. Approche variationniste, qualitative et quantitative, de l’\u00e9tude du fran\u00e7ais dans ses dimensions dialectales, sociales et stylistiques. Variations intra-individuelles et entre individus. Facteurs externes de la variation interne du fran\u00e7ais. Diversit\u00e9s du fran\u00e7ais.<\/td><\/tr>
FREN3415 Histoire du fran\u00e7ais<\/td>\u00c9volution interne de l’histoire du fran\u00e7ais et de ses influences externes. De sa naissance, pr\u00e9sum\u00e9e et r\u00e9elle, \u00e0 ses \u00e9tats actuels. Les langues contributrices. Contacts linguistiques. Dynamiques du changement linguistique. V\u00e9hicularisation et vernacularisation. Id\u00e9ologies de la langue fran\u00e7aise.<\/td><\/tr>
FREN3416 Le fran\u00e7ais dans le monde<\/td>Pr\u00e9sentation des vari\u00e9t\u00e9s de fran\u00e7ais parl\u00e9 dans le monde, principalement \u00e0 l\u2019ext\u00e9rieur du Canada. \u00c9tude des aspects historiques et sociopolitiques de la diffusion du fran\u00e7ais. Analyse des traits linguistiques propres aux vari\u00e9t\u00e9s. Colonisation, cr\u00e9olisation, emprunt linguistique, variation r\u00e9gionale, am\u00e9nagement linguistique.<\/td><\/tr>
FREN3417 Le fran\u00e7ais au Canada<\/td>Pr\u00e9sentation des vari\u00e9t\u00e9s de fran\u00e7ais parl\u00e9 au Canada. \u00c9tude des aspects historiques et sociopolitiques de l\u2019implantation du fran\u00e7ais en Nouvelle-France. Vari\u00e9t\u00e9s laurentienne et acadienne. Analyse des traits linguistiques. Enjeux sociolinguistiques. Contact des langues, bilinguisme, minorit\u00e9s linguistiques.<\/td><\/tr>
FREN3451 Th\u00e8me en linguistique<\/td>\u00c9tude d\u2019un th\u00e8me particulier en linguistique fran\u00e7aise. Contenu variable selon les ann\u00e9es.<\/td><\/tr>
FREN4412 Diversit\u00e9 du fran\u00e7ais<\/td>\u00c9tudes des vari\u00e9t\u00e9s du fran\u00e7ais, dans ses dimensions spatiales. Contenu variable selon les ann\u00e9es.<\/td><\/tr>
FREN4413 Diachronie du fran\u00e7ais<\/td>\u00c9tude du fran\u00e7ais, dans ses dimensions historiques. Contenu variable selon les ann\u00e9es. <\/td><\/tr>
FREN4414 Analyse du fran\u00e7ais<\/td>\u00c9tude du fran\u00e7ais, dans ses dimensions morphologiques, syntaxiques ou phonologiques. Contenu variable selon les ann\u00e9es.<\/td><\/tr>
FREN4415 Variation du fran\u00e7ais<\/td>\u00c9tude des variations internes de la langue, dans ses dimensions orales et \u00e9crites. Contenu variable selon les ann\u00e9es.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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