Continuité, rupture et construction identitaires : analyse de discours d'immigrés maghrébins en France

“What do you think about having beauty marks on your—Hashek!”: Innovative and Impolite Uses of anArabic Politeness Formula amongFrench Teenagers

“…At the same time, such scholarship also illustrates the ways that youth social worlds are fashioned, at least in part, in response to widely circulating ideological discourses regarding generational, gendered, classed, ethnicized, and racialized social identities. Similarly, French sociolinguistic literature on immigrant descent populations addresses the creativity of youth language, but also the ways that teenagers are socialized into language practices and ideologies that consolidate hierarchies of socioeconomic class, gendered, racialized, and spatialized identities, and differential language status (Abu‐Haidar ; Basier and Bachmann ; Billiez ; Boucherit ; Boyer , ; Dabène ; Dabène and Billiez ; Dannequin ; Goudaillier ; Moïse ). The present article attempts contribute to both of these perspectives, by analyzing the push and pull of cultural innovation and constraint present in French Arab teenagers’ emergent facework norms.…”