Overcorrection
The overcorrection is to express themselves "too correct", that is to say most often in a manner grammatically incorrect because even want to speak as correctly as possible.
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Linguistics
The overcorrection is due to linguistic phenomena ( analogy , contamination, regulation ...) used in a wrongfully and in situations appropriate formal and standardized: the speaker is trying to overcome the insecurity he feels language.
A common manifestation of overcorrection is in the links wrong (not justified by the spelling). For example, when it will be noon sentence is pronounced Sociology
The overcorrection "phenomenon characteristic of speaking petty bourgeois" ( Pierre Bourdieu ) reveals, in a society given the esteem or value qu'attribuent its speakers to certain rules of language. The rule of association is, in this, an issue more important than the sequence of tenses , for example. Indeed, on one hand, the connections are easier to enforce than the correlation time and, secondly, the fault binding are sometimes much more significant than the errors of time. Their study therefore relates to the sociolinguistics.
Thus, according to V. Francis, the study of overcorrection can understand that in a group , a factor that is expressed in spoken language choices necessarily realize that reveal its position relative to the group:
"In the field of language as in other areas, compared to the standard varies from one situation to another, from one social group to another within the same company. In some situations the margins of freedom that individuals give themselves over to reveal a standard undercorrection or overcorrection of the reverse that are like one another, the opportunity to mark their differences. "
But the overcorrection of a speaker given also reveals the value placed on respect for rules in a context of utterance accurate. The same speaker will make mistakes overcorrection in one context and not in another. The interest in studying the overcorrection is currently psycholinguistics.
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References
- Defence of French, No. 181 , July-August-September 1996
- The French Journal today, 41 March 1978, pp. 4-20 and Supplement No. 41, pp. 51-57.
- The construction of language: the sociological dimension, the example of the conversation. V. Francis, sociologist, lecturer at the IUFM Orleans Tours.
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