Download or read book Varieties of Contemporary French written by M. H. Offord and published by Palgrave. This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is French? Where is it spoken? Who speaks it? How is it spoken? These are some of the questions which this book attempts to answer. It explores the many varieties of French and demonstrates that the choice of a particular variety depends upon a number of factors - some relating to the actual speaker, her/his age, sex, socio-economic status and place of origin, others to the nature of the situation producing the variety. Special attention is paid to geographical variation.