The Ideology of English: French Perceptions of English as a World Language (Contributions to the Sociology of Language [Csl])

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language. Preface List of Tables List of Figures Chapter One: Introduction Background Need for the study Statement of problem Hypotheses and related research questions Definition of terms Chapter Two: The theoretical context Diffusion Causes Processes Attitudes Asia/Southeast Asia Middle East North America Western Europe Language and culture/ideology Chapter Three: The diffusion of English in France Language borrowing Education Primary and secondary education Continuing education Media Television Cinema Radio Press Science Business and industry Foreign specialists Employment announcements Chapter Four: The defense of French — authority’s response to the spread of English Content analysis of subjective oratory Loss of prestige Linguistic corruption Ideological colonization Legislation Chapter Five: French attitudes toward English — “les gens quipassent” Qualitative: Method Subjects Materials and procedures Qualitative: Results Findings and discussion Transcript of interview with S1 (Courbon) Transcript of interview with S2 (Langlet) Transcript of interview with S3 (de Lanversin) Transcript of interview with S4 (Salvado) Quantitative: Method Subjects Variables Materials: Instrument Validity Reliability Procedures Survey questionnaire Questionnaire response guide Quantitative: Results Findings and discussion Chapter Six: Summary Summary of results Discussion of conclusions Implications for the profession Implications for further research Appendix: Etiemble text stimulus References