REGIONAL VARIANT AS A “LINGUISTIC MARKET” (BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF THE REGIONAL FRENCH LANGUAGE)

Abstract

The present paper focuses on the regional variant of French received as a result of interaction
of sociolemes in the regional context. This interaction is based on the “linguistic
habitus”, which is manifested in the existence of acquired schemes activated unconsciously.
The regional French is an after-effect of the diasystem contact between the common
French and its dialect; it is interiorized by the regional French-speaking socioleme and
serves for the purposes of an appropriate regional “linguistic market”. The functioning of
the regional variant is implemented within the framework of the social and territorial
space during communicative interaction of its native speakers also called «social agents».
The regional variant is characterized by regional features on different linguistic levels,
among which lexical features are the most remarkable. Regional lexemes are not fixed in
normative dictionaries or are supplemented with special marks.