The French Language and Questions of Identity

ISBN-13: 9781904350682 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 244 str.

Wendy Ayres-Bennett; Mari Jones

Opis

Our choice of linguistic code is one of the most fundamental ways open to us of establishing our membership of some groups and our distance from others. This symbolic value of language may often leave it open to exploitation, especially by the state. The present volume demonstrates how the multi-faceted nature of the concept of identity makes its relationship with language both complex and unpredictable. Because of its particular historical and social characteristics, the French language provides especially fertile territory for the exploration of this theme.
Four main axes stand out in the French context: 'institutionalised' identity, regional identity, social identity and competing identities. These themes are explored from different perspectives by leading experts from Britain, Europe and North America: Roger Baines, Kate Beeching, Danielle Bouverot, David Cowling, Edith Esch, FranCois Gadet, Penelope Gardner-Chloros, David Hornsby, John E. Joseph, Dominique Lagorgette, Jacques Landrecies, Dawn Marley, Nicolas Pepin, Tim Pooley, Gilles Siouffi, Albert Valdman, Barbara von Gemmingen and Chantal Wionet.

Spis treści

Part I: Institutionalized Identity 1. Langue française et questions d’identité: Quelques propositions sur le xviie siècle 2. L’Institutionnalisation de la langue commune à la fin du xviie siècle 3. Norme et identité(s) dans un dictionnaire institutionnel, le TLF 4. 842, 1871, and All That: Alsace-Lorraine and the Transformations of Linguistic Nationalism 5. Français d’ailleurs: The Pluricentricity of French Identities? Part II: Regional Identities 6. Variations des rapports à la langue et brouillage identitaire dans l’aire picardophone 7. Dialect Lite? the Rise of the Semi-Speaker in an Obsolescent Dialect Community 8. Picard and Identity in Lille and the Nord–Pas-de-Calais Part III: Social Identity 9. Tu/vous Choices: An ‘Act of Identity’? 10. Termes d’adresse et insultes: Discours sur l’autre ou sur moi? 11. Identity, Gender, and Perceptions of Insult Performance in Adolescent French 12. Social Identity, Salience, and Language Change: The Case of Post-Rhematic 13. Catégoriser la langue, catégoriser les locuteurs. Variantes, emblèmes et identité située: le cas de Part IV: Competing Identities 14. Henri Estienne and the Problem of French–Italian Code-Switching in Sixteenth-Century France 15. ‘On voit ... se répandre par-tout, un jargon colon-germanisé’: Recherches sur le français des Huguenots à Berlin au xviiième siècle 16. Maghrebians via French 17. Variation et revitalisation du français en Louisiane

O autorze

Mari Jones