The French Language And Questions Of Identity

Author : Wendy Ayres-Bennett,Mari C. Jones
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781904350682

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The French Language and Questions of Identity by Wendy Ayres-Bennett,Mari C. Jones Pdf

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, François 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.

Author : Dawn Marley,Marie-Anne Hintze,Gabrielle Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : French language
ISBN : UOM:39015042788193

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Linguistic Identities and Policies in France and the French-speaking World by Dawn Marley,Marie-Anne Hintze,Gabrielle Parker Pdf

Author : David C. Gordon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110809947

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The French Language and National Identity (1930–1975) by David C. Gordon Pdf

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Author : Zsuzsanna Fagyal,H Adlai Murdoch
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443863445

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Francophone Cultures and Geographies of Identity by Zsuzsanna Fagyal,H Adlai Murdoch Pdf

This collection of original essays challenges French-centered conceptions of francophonie as the shaping force of the production and study of the French language, literature, culture, film, and art both inside and outside mainland France. The traditional view of francophone cultural productions as offshoots of their hexagonal avatar is replaced by a pluricentric conception that reads interrelated aspects of francophonie as products of specific contexts, conditions, and local ecologies that emerged from post/colonial encounters with France and other colonizing powers. The twenty-one papers grouped into six thematic parts focus on distinctive literary, linguistic, musical, cinematographic, and visual forms of expression in geographical areas long defined as the peripheries of the French-speaking world: the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa, Quebec, and hexagonal cities with a preponderance of immigrant populations. These contested sites of French collective identity offer a rich formulation of distinctly local, francophone identities that do not fit in with concepts of linguistic and ethnic exclusiveness, but are consistent with a pluralistic demographic shift and the true face of Frenchness that is, indeed, plural.

Author : D. E. Ager
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853594423

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Identity, Insecurity and Image by D. E. Ager Pdf

This text is about the relationship between language and the society that uses it. It specifically aims to discover what drove and drives the French to concentrate so much on language, on what it is that characterises their approach, and on the explanations for the policies governments have pursued in the past and present.

Author : Kevin J. Callahan,Sarah Ann Curtis
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803218765

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Views from the Margins by Kevin J. Callahan,Sarah Ann Curtis Pdf

What does it mean to be French? What constitutes Frenchness ? Is it birth, language, attachment to republicanism, adherence to cultural norms? In contemporary France, these questions resonate in light of the large number of non-French and non-European immigrants, many from former French colonies, who have made France home in recent decades. Historically, French identity has long been understood as the product of a centralized state and culture emanating from Paris that was itself central to European history and civilization. Likewise, French identity in terms of class, gender, nationality, and religion mainly has been explained as a strong, indivisible core, against which marginal actors have been defined. This collection of essays offers examples drawn from an imperial history of France that show the power of the periphery to shape diverse and dynamic modern French identities at its center. Each essay explains French identity as a fluid process rather than a category into which French citizens (and immigrants) are expected to fit. In using a core/periphery framework to explore identity creation, Views from the Margins breaks new ground in bringing together diverse historical topics from politics, religion, regionalism, consumerism, nationalism, and gendered aspects of civic and legal engagement.

Author : Giuseppina Cortese,Anna Duszak
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3039106325

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Identity, Community, Discourse by Giuseppina Cortese,Anna Duszak Pdf

Languages are inseparable from their contexts of use. They are not only congruent with, but also involved in the configuration of the worldviews and value systems manifested in cultures and embodied in texts. The spread of English worldwide foregrounds the issue of textual dynamics in intercultural settings. The production/reception of texts in English facilitates international contacts and exchanges, yet it also triggers hegemonic practices. The volume aims to investigate the representations and negotiations of sociocognitive identities in intercultural settings relevant for 'good practice'. Contributions explore 'languaging' strategies (verbal, visual, multimodal; English monolingual, bilingual, multilingual) through a range of methodological perspectives wherein the respect for sociocultural differences is a constitutive value.

Author : Dalila Ayoun
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289940

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Studies in French Applied Linguistics by Dalila Ayoun Pdf

Studies in French Applied Linguistics invites the reader to adopt a broad perspective on applied linguistics, illustrating the fascinating multifaceted work researchers are conducted in so many various, inter-connected subfields. The five chapters of the first part are dedicated to the first and second language acquisition of French in various settings: First language acquisition by normal children from a generative perspective and by children with Specific Language Impairment; second language acquisition in Canadian immersion settings, from a neurolinguistic approach to phonology and natural language processing and CALL. The six chapters of the second part explore the contribution of French in various subfields of applied linguistics such as an anthropological approach to literacy issues in Guadeloupean Kréyòl, literacy issues in new technologies, phonological and lexical innovations in the banlieues, French in North Africa, language planning and policy in Quebec, as well as the emerging field of forensic linguistics from an historical perspective.

Author : Marie-Claire Patron
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 3039110829

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Culture and Identity in Study Abroad Contexts by Marie-Claire Patron Pdf

This book examines the effects of a study abroad experience on students' culture and identity and the impact of these effects on their readjustment to their home culture. It explores issues of culture and identity from the perspective of French students studying in Australia. Issues of perceived cultural proximity between France and Australia, a relative lack of prior knowledge of the host country before the period of study and the impact of distance all influence aspects of these students' experiences. Employing long-term and cross-sectional studies focusing on culture shock, reverse culture shock and cultural identity issues, the author investigates the cyclical journey of French academic sojourners and examines the impact of the acculturation and repatriation processes and the language experiences on their perceptions of cultural identity. Once the students had traversed the difficult stages of culture shock and reached the stage of full recovery (adjustment), they no longer wished to go home. What impact has this process had on the returnees who faced the insularity of their home society once they returned home? Is the French community beginning to acknowledge the start of a brain-drain of the educated French overseas? What are the implications for borderless higher education? What value should be placed on pre-departure preparation from participating institutions and the individuals themselves, both on a linguistic and a psychological level? This book poses questions relating to these issues.

Author : Wiltrud Mihatsch,Inga Hennecke,Anna Kisiel,Alena Kolyaseva,Kristin Davidse,Lieselotte Brems
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110701166

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Type Noun Constructions in Slavic, Germanic and Romance Languages by Wiltrud Mihatsch,Inga Hennecke,Anna Kisiel,Alena Kolyaseva,Kristin Davidse,Lieselotte Brems Pdf

This volume is the first dedicated to the comprehensive, in-depth analysis of constructions with nouns like ‘type’ and ‘sort’. It focuses on type noun constructions in Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages, integrating the different descriptive traditions that had been developed for each language family. As a result, a greater variety of type noun constructions is revealed than in the hitherto more fragmented literature. But attention is also drawn to the cross-linguistic similarity of the new pragmatic meanings, such as ad hoc and approximative categorization, hedging, focus and filler uses, and the new grammatical functions in NPs (e.g. phoric uses), clauses (e.g. adverbial uses) and complex sentences (e.g. quotatives). The volume offers survey chapters of type noun constructions in each language family as well as contributions focusing on specific aspects in one or two languages, such as their grammar, semantics and pragmatics, diachronic development, discursive and sociolinguistic variety. These complementary methodologies elucidate the unique cross-linguistic field of type noun constructions both descriptively and theoretically. Hence, this volume can also serve as a model for similar surveys in other functional domains.

Author : Leigh Oakes
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1588111164

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Language and National Identity by Leigh Oakes Pdf

This book re-examines the relationship between language and national identity. Unlike many previous studies, it employs a comparative approach: France and Sweden have been chosen as case studies both for their similarities (e.g. both are member states of the European Union) as well as their important differences (e.g. France subscribes in principle to a civic model of national identity, whereas the basis of Swedish identity is undeniably ethnic). It is precisely differences such as these which allow for a more comprehensive understanding of the ethnolinguistic implications of some of the major challenges currently facing France, Sweden and other European countries: regionalism, immigration, European integration and globalization.The present volume benefits from the use of a multidisciplinary approach, and differs from others on the market because of the variety of methods of inquiry used. A series of societal analyses is complemented by an empirical component, bringing a more grounded understanding to the issue of language and national identity.

Author : Liliane Mangold Vassberg
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853591726

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Alsatian Acts of Identity by Liliane Mangold Vassberg Pdf

A German dialect spoken in Alsace (France), has rapidly lost way to French since 1945. This book investigates language choice, language attitudes and ethnic identity in Alsace today. The Alsatian case study points out the complex interrelationship of linguistic and identity change with historical, social and psychological processes.

Author : Timothy Baycroft
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780861932696

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Culture, Identity and Nationalism by Timothy Baycroft Pdf

This study examines the evolution of national and regional, cultural and political identities in that northern region of France which borders Belgium, over the two centuries which followed the French Revolution. During that time the region was transformed by the development of the industrial economy, population shifts, war and occupation, and numerous changes of political regime. Through an analysis of a wide range of issues, including language, regional and national political movements, educational policy, attitudes towards immigrants and the border, the press, trade unions, and the church - as well as the attitude of the French State - the author questions traditional interpretations of the process of national assimilation in France. At the same time he illustrates how the Franco-Belgian border, originally an arbitrary line through a culturally homogeneous region, became not only a significant marker for the identity of the French Flemish, but a real cultural division. TIMOTHY BAYCROFT is lecturer in French history, University of Sheffield.

Author : Educart
Publisher : Educart
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789360540784

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Educart CBSE Question Bank Class 12 English Core 2024-25 (As per latest CBSE Syllabus 23 Mar 2024) by Educart Pdf

What You Get: Time Management ChartsSelf-evaluation ChartCompetency-based Q’sMarking Scheme Charts Educart ‘English Core’ Class 12 Strictly based on the latest CBSE Curriculum released on March 31st, 2023All New Pattern Questions including past 10 year Q’s & from DIKSHA platformLots of solved questions with Detailed Explanations for all questionsCaution Points to work on common mistakes made during the exam Special focus on Competency-based Questions including all New Pattern Q’sSimplified NCERT theory with diagram, flowcharts, bullet points and tablesIncludes Extract-based Examples as per the new pattern changeTopper Answers of past 10-year board exams, along with Marks Breakdown Tips4 Solved Sample Papers as per the latest Sample paper design released with the syllabus Why choose this book? You can find the simplified complete with diagrams, flowcharts, bullet points, and tablesBased on the revised CBSE pattern for competency-based questionsEvaluate your performance with the self-evaluation charts

Author : Nicholas Harrison
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781786949684

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Our Civilizing Mission by Nicholas Harrison Pdf

Our Civilizing Mission is both an exploration of colonial education and a response to current anxieties about the foundations of the ‘humanities’. Focusing on the example of Algeria, it asks what can be learned by treating colonial education not just as an example of colonialism but as a provocative, uncomfortable example of education.