The Variable use of ne in Negative Structures: An Apparent-Time Variationist Study of Synchronous Electronic French Discourse Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title The Variable use of ne in Negative Structures: An Apparent-Time Variationist Study of Synchronous Electronic French Discourse

Creator

  • Author: Gould, Rebecca J.
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Chair: Williams, Lawrence
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Major Professor
  • Committee Member: Roehrs, Dorian
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Committee Member: Vigil, Donny A.
    Contributor Type: Personal

Publisher

  • Name: University of North Texas
    Place of Publication: Denton, Texas

Date

  • Creation: 2010-12

Language

  • English
  • French

Description

  • Content Description: This study of the variable use of ne in synchronous electronic French discourse follows the methodological guidelines and the theoretical framework proposed and subsequently elaborated by Labov for analyzing variable features of language. This thesis provides a quantitative variable rule (i.e., VARBRUL) analysis including age as a factor group (i.e., independent variable), thereby making a new contribution to this area of inquiry. The data (50,000 words from the vingtaine 'twentysomething' channel and 50,000 words from the cinquantaine 'fiftysomething' channel) are a subset of 100,000 words from a corpus of one million words collected in 2008 by the thesis director from the public chat server EuropNet. This study aims to answer the following overarching question: To what extent does age-compared to other factors-influence the variable use of ne in verbal negation in synchronous electronic French discourse? In order to answer this question, and possibly others, the VARBRUL analysis will include age, subject (e.g., noun vs. pronoun), type of second negative particle (e.g., pas 'not', jamais 'never', personne 'no one'/'nobody', and so forth), as well as verbal mood/tense.
  • Physical Description: vi, 71 p. : ill.

Subject

  • Keyword: French
  • Keyword: language
  • Keyword: linguistics
  • Keyword: negation
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: French language -- Negatives.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: French language -- Discourse analysis.

Collection

  • Name: UNT Theses and Dissertations
    Code: UNTETD

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries
    Code: UNT

Rights

  • Rights Access: public
  • Rights License: copyright
  • Rights Holder: Gould, Rebecca J.
  • Rights Statement: Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Resource Type

  • Thesis or Dissertation

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • OCLC: 732621938
  • UNT Catalog No.: b4007217
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc33157

Degree

  • Degree Name: Master of Arts
  • Degree Level: Master's
  • Degree Discipline: French
  • Academic Department: Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
  • Degree Grantor: University of North Texas

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