The Emergence of the Unilinguist Project: The Archaeology of the Quebec Linguistic Question Abstract -Waved like a banner during the Quiet Revolution, the idea of unilinguism was brought back into question at the same time as the whole great account of modern Quebec, of which it constituted an essential element. It is doubtless attributable in large part to the fact that the "oneness" of unilinguism runs contrary to the ideas and values of the Western societies of our advanced modernity. The objective of this article is to expose some of the ideological foundations of the idea of unilinguism, which took shape at the end of the 1950s and was responsible for a veritable social and political revolution, the epilogue to which would be the adoption in 1977 of the Charter of the French language.Que la contestation des « rapports des mots aux choses » constitue le « coeur» de ce qui fait la politique 1 , on en trouve une preuve éclatante dans l'évolution de la question linguistique au Québec. Elle est en effet
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