Overview: Examines the relationship between language attitudes and phonetic variation in Northern Catalonia.Demonstrates how the social, cultural and political context affects the attitudes and linguistic practThis book presents a detailed sociolinguistic study of the traditionally Catalan-speaking areas of Southern France, and sheds new light on language attitudes, phonetic variation, language ideologies and minority language rights. The region’s complex dual identity, both Catalan and French, both peripheral and strategic, is shown to be reflected in the book’s attitudinal findings which in
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