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Essay Review : French: from dialect to standard

Many areas of French studies in Britain have lately been undergoing paradigm shifts. Nowadays, in at least one university, examination candidates are invited to write commentaries on lurid excerpts from strip cartoons; scholarly articles are published about television soap operas; and changes of emphasis which, in their own way, are equally striking if not more so, have also been occurring in ’History of the Language’. The use of the definite article in this time-honoured expression is not without significance. Consider the following statement from A. Ewert’s wellknown manual: