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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Exploring the Status of Voiceless Labiovelar Fricative /ʍ/ in Contemporary American English by Dominika Walczak

“…The study attempts to investigate the current status of the voiceless labiovelar fricative /ʍ/ in American English with reference to selected sociolinguistic variables, such as age, regional background, formality of the speech and prestige. …”
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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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Les anges parlent-ils occitan ? Analyse d’un corpus de noëls toulousains de la seconde moitié du xviiie siècle by Gilles Couffignal

“…The collections of noëls printed under the Ancien Régime are an important source for the sociolinguistic history of southern France, given the co-presence of French and Occitan. …”
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The culinary linguistic landscape of Kupang City, Indonesia: unraveling identity through sign boards by Naniana N. Benu, Budi A. Sudarmanto, Tri Wahyuni, Dian Susilastri, Erlinda Rosita, Amir Mahmud, Sri Yono

“…This study contributes to the understanding of urban sociolinguistic dynamics and offers practical implications for preserving cultural diversity amidst modernization.…”
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The Rise of English and the Space for Modern Languages by M. Obaidul Hamid

“…Indeed, the “English is enough” ideology is dominant in the Inner Circles of English, affecting the quantity and quality of the study of other languages in these societies. Despite all sociolinguistic, attitudinal, and instrumental factors in favor of an English-only monolingual social psyche, the article concludes that the space of other languages has not fully dried out. …”
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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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Al-lugha al-fuṣḥâ : archéologie d’un concept « idéolinguistique » by Pierre Larcher

“…In both cases, we will point out that the concept is at the crossroad of ideology and linguistics; a reason why we suggest to define it as ideolinguistic, on the model of sociolinguistic.…”
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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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Etude d’un phénomène de discrimination esthétique : la « naquez » au Mexique by Philippe Schaffhauser

“…The main result of this interpretive work, which gathers sociolinguistic, historic, anthropological, and philosophical concerns analytically, is to begin to throw into relief another facet of Mexican identity. …”
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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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IMPROVING OF EFL LEARNERS’ SPEAKING PROFICIENCY THROUGH SPEAKING ACTIVITIES INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM: A THEORETICAL REVIEW by Syarifuddin Syarifuddin

“…The competence  includes   grammatical competence,  discourse competence, sociolinguistic competence, and strategic competence as the undrelying abilities of speaking proficiency. …”
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The Influence of Turkish on Cypriot Greek by Ahmet Yıkık

“…In the light of the findings, and using a sociolinguistic approach, the influence of Turkish on Cypriot Greek is discussed.…”
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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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