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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>Please excuse cross-postings!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>For French-speaking colleagues, I’m forwarding this from the Réseau Francophone de Sociolinguistique list: an impressive-looking online Introduction to Sociolinguistics from Thierry Bulot and Philippe Blanchet, two of the most prominent sociolinguists in France. I haven’t had the chance to look at it yet; given their research in the past, and given the prevailing tendency in sociolinguistics in France, it is likely to be interactional sociolinguistics, not variationist, but I am still posting it on the Variationist List as well because there are people on it who work on and in French.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Thierry Bulot in particular is a great advocate of using the Internet to disseminate learning: much more can be found on his site here:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.sociolinguistique-urbaine.com/">http://www.sociolinguistique-urbaine.com/</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Damien<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:38:04 +0200<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>From: "thierry.bulot" <thierry.bulot@free.fr><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=FR>Subject: [liste RFS] Sociolinguistique et francophonie<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=FR><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=FR>Chères et chers collègues<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=FR><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=FR>Dans le cadre des *Grandes Leçons de l'Université Ouverte des Humanités <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=FR><</span><a href="http://www.uoh.fr/"><span lang=FR>http://www.uoh.fr/</span></a><span lang=FR>>*, nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la mise en <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=FR>ligne du Cours d'initiation à la sociolinguistique et à l'étude des <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=FR>situations francophones intitulé: *Dynamiques de la langue française au <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=FR>21ième siècle : une introduction á la sociolinguistique <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=FR><</span><a href="http://sociolinguistique.fr"><span lang=FR>http://sociolinguistique.fr</span></a><span lang=FR>>)*.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=FR><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=FR>Bien cordialement à toutes et tous<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=FR>Thierry Bulot et Philippe Blanchet<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>--<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=FR style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Damien Hall<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>University of Kent (UK)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, 'Towards a New Linguistic Atlas of France'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>English Language and Linguistics, School of European Culture and Languages<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>