Le plurilinguisme est l objet de toutes les attentions scientifiques en sociolinguistique et en didactique des langues etrangeres. Il est egalement l objectif affiche des politiques educatives d un grand nombre d Etats europeens qui suivent en cela les preconisations du Conseil de l Europe. Le vent ayant tourne en faveur de la - pluralite -, sous toutes ses formes, le plurilinguisme est devenu une notion a la mode puisqu il s inscrit dans le sacro-saint - respect de la diversite - qui constitue le socle ideologique de la bien-pensance d aujourd hui. Dans cette communion collective autour des...

This book offers a series of studies that come together in their concern for furthering an understanding of the French language, of its uses, its forms, its variation, and its acquisition. Other than contributing to a general understanding of French, this book also addresses the use of corpora for the study of language and the links between tools, methods, analyses and applications. What data are used, and how? What are the underlying theoretical and/or methodological considerations? How have these changed our way of formulating linguistic descriptions? What are the implications for...