Les TICE et les arts comme outils de revitalisation des langues minorisées ? by Charlène Chaupré-Berki

“…The study is based on sociolinguistic surveys and interviews to understand the linguistic realities from the point of view of the speakers. …”
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La transmutation identitaire au service de l’émancipation ethnoculturelle et de la revitalisation linguistique en Catalogne du Nord by Maria Antón i Álvarez de Cienfuegos

“…The selected participants span different generations and originate from Northern Catalonia, a distinctive sociolinguistic setting within France.…”
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Étude des représentations sociales de la culture occitane chez les élèves de Calandretas by Grégoire Andreo-Raynaud

“…In the first part, I am doing a small summary about the concepts of culture, language and heritage, and about the necessity to link these notions to analyse the sociolinguistic dynamic of Occitan language. The second part is dedicated to the description of the investigation protocol and the discussion of the results…”
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La politique de revitalisation de la langue basque dans la communauté autonome basque by Eguzki Urteaga

“…This article focuses on the policy of revitalization of the Basque language developed and then implemented by the Basque Government, in collaboration with public institutions and private entities, in the Basque Autonomous Community located in the Iberian Peninsula. Based on the sociolinguistic situation of the Basque language and the sociodemographic factors having an impact on its evolution, and taking into account the legal framework in force and the commitments made by the public authorities at the autonomous, national and european levels, it analyses the linguistics policy in favour of the knowledge and practice of Basque, paying particular attention to its objectives and strategic axes, its actions and its budget, its governance and its monitoring. …”
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Enseignant·es mexicain·es de FLE ou acteur·rice·s glottopolitiques pour la diversité linguistique ? by Moisés Abad Gervacio

“…Through comprehensive semi-structured interviews, this article explores how the participants in this survey appropriate and invest in French, examining in particular their positioning with regard to linguistic diversity in the Mexican context and the persistence of linguistic inequalities.We illustrate how sociolinguistic appropriation among four teachers contributes significantly to the (de)construction of linguistic ideologies, leading to the development of various glottopolitical stances and identities. …”
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Est-il préférable d’apprendre les langues minoritaires à l’âge adulte ?L’exemple du breton by Grimault Gildas

“…After having presented Jone’s arguments, we will consider them in the sociolinguistic situation of the breton language. What are the differences between adult and adolescent learning ? …”
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Défense de la langue et développement des territoires : l'aragonais et ses promotrices/promoteurs by Carmen Alén Garabato

“…In the second part, we propose a brief sociolinguistic analysis of the institutional policy carried out from above, in particular from 2015 to 2023. …”
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Proverbs, commitment, and the evasion of responsibility by Damien Villers

“…More attention will then be paid to the sociolinguistic approach which describes proverbs as a way for the speaker to avoid commitment and tension. …”
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L’occitan et le développement socio-économique et culturel du territoire : l’exemple du PNR Aubrac by Caroline Calvet

“…Significant examples of the productivity and exploitation of this ethnosociolinguistic richness are presented based on a toponymic survey, a sociolinguistic survey and a corpus of interviews carried out in 2022 within the PNR Aubrac. …”
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La communauté linguistique kanak en Nouvelle-Calédonie entre passé et avenir by Françoise Roche

“…Thus, not only historical but also geographical factors are at work, here.Then, how does the concept of speech community apply to the Kanak sociolinguistic situation? Are we to infer that sharing a common local French language is what unites this linguistic community, or, on the contrary, that there are as many speech communities as spoken languages, regardless of the number of speakers?…”
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L’espace urbain algérois à l’épreuve de ses graffiti by Karim Ouaras

“…Graffiti practice imposes itself as an ethno-sociolinguistic, semiotic, and artistic marking. It reveals multiple strategies to manifest desire to say, to break taboo, and to give meaning to its presence in the city as a social actor. …”
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Guépard-gazelle : entre prédation et care, construction de l’ethos discursif de femmes chasseresses by Guillonne Balaguer

“…Based on an ethnographic sociolinguistic study of women's hunting, this article looks at the construction of the discursive ethos of women hunters, between care and predation. …”
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Les systèmes graphiques de l’occitan by Hervé Lieutard

“…In this paper, I will zoom in on some important points concerning the graphic history of Occitan to show that the study of graphic systems can be coupled with a sociolinguistic analysis that allows us to draw a social history of the language. …”
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Concours scolaires Ar Falz entre 1955 et 1965, un outil pédagogique pour pallier les insuffisances de la loi Deixonne ? by Maryvonne Berthou

“…Several issues will emerge and will lead us to ask this question: has not the beginning of Breton teaching in primary schools fallen twenty years behind in regard to the sociolinguistic situation of Basse Bretagne.…”
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Comment La charte “Ya d’ar brezhoneg” est devenue un outil incontournable de la revitalisation et de la normalisation de la langue bretonne by Cédric Choplin

“…In this article, which is largely based on interviews with various actors and a study of the press, we will first focus on the sociolinguistic reflection that presided over the design of the charter; secondly, we will discuss the keys to its success and the rare negative reactions it has provoked; thirdly, we will return to the experience of the entrepreneur Denez Pichon, a signatory of the charter in his high-tech company.…”
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French subject doubling by Yiming Liang, Caterina Donati, Heather Burnett

“… This paper revisits the status of subject clitics in Spoken French by studying subject doubling as a sociolinguistic variable. In the literature, two influential analyses have been proposed to account for French subject doubling. …”
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Séquence d’introduction de discours représenté : faire ou dire ? by Lotfi Abouda, Nina Rendulic

“…In this paper we study a particular use of the verb faire, i.e. as an approximate equivalent of dire introducing a reported speech in French, in a corpus of about one million words, extracted from ESLO (“Sociolinguistic Survey in Orleans”), which consists of samples of recordings carried out 40 years apart (ESLO1 and ESLO2). …”
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R post-vocalique et histoire de l’anglais by Jacques Durand

“…While the loss of post-vocalic r’s does require an explanation in phonetic and phonological terms, I mainly concentrate on broader sociolinguistic and sociohistorical issue: on the one hand, the early emergence in Britain of London and the surrounding counties as a centre from which changes radiate across the whole of Britain; on the other hand, the complex evolution of English in the United States with the emergence of new social and geographical boundaries. …”
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International tourism and (linguistic) accommodation: Convergence towards and through English in tourist information interactions by Adam Wilson

“…International tourism continues to grow and diversify exponentially, creating situations of intense language contact and giving rise to unexpected sociolinguistic dynamics and phenomena. In order to ensure successful communication and counteract the challenges linked to these dynamics, speakers in tourist contexts must be able to adapt in order to accommodate to their interlocutors. …”
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Further Reflecting on the Six-Year Primary Project of the Institute of Education, University of Ife: The Key Players by Toyin Falola, Michael Oladejo Afolayan

“… African linguistic complexity is often defined in terms of its multilingualism and a complicated colonial sociolinguistic heritage. Tis colonial heritage is seen in the prevalence of European languages, especially English and French, in the lingual Franca of sub-Saharan states. …”
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