Mille ans de langue française, histoire d’une passion

Rey, Alain; Duval, Frédéric; Siouffi, Gilles

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“…This may appear surprising given the prestige at that time of French within the rest of Europe as well as the fact that after the French Revolution, French linguistic policy aimed to unify the nation through a single national language. Linguistic borders, however, rarely respect political ones, and the linguistic landscape at that time was made up of many different regional languages and local dialects (Rey, Duval and Siouffi 2007;Vermes and Boutet 1987). Even in the relatively limited area of francophone Switzerland, there was a great deal of linguistic diversity as Furrer's (2002) detailed inventory shows.…”

Section: Language Learning In the Eighteenth Century In A Multilinguamentioning

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The teaching of modern languages in France and francophone Switzerland (1740–1940): a historiographical overview

Extermann

2018

The Language Learning Journal

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This paper has two aims: firstly, it sketches the history of language teaching in France and francophone Switzerland over a period of 200 years, with a particular focus on the teaching of German. Secondly, it seeks to shed light on some of the francophone historiographical approaches which have influenced recent research in this area. Historical sociolinguistic studies have highlighted the multilingual nature of the Ancien Régime. Mainstream conclusions from the history of language teaching methodology have been complemented by contributions from sociolinguistics which shed light on the developing status of teachers, their working conditions, their role in educational institutions and their professionalisation during the nineteenth century. From the beginning of the twentieth century, despite the dominance of monolingual ideology, discussion of modern language teaching started to take place transnationally. Today, historians are also working across borders in order to get a more accurate picture of the development of language teaching.

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Section: Language Learning In the Eighteenth Century In A Multilinguamentioning

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The teaching of modern languages in France and francophone Switzerland (1740–1940): a historiographical overview

Extermann

2018

The Language Learning Journal

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“…En utilisant à la fois la tradition critique de la France et la projection internationale de la langue française (« langue véhiculaire », Ndao, 2008 : 20), il était possible à ces mouvements d´avoir une assise forte. Bourguiba opposait à la francophonie perçue comme un espace de rencontre, ce qu´il appelait la « francisation » (Ndao, 2008 : 17) alors que Senghor pensait la notion de francité comme caractéristique spirituelle d´une civilisation (Rey, Duval, Siouffi, 2007: 1280. Il existe des nuances dans la perception de la francophonie par Bourguiba.…”

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“…La France n´a pas créé la Francophonie comme une structure secrète néocoloniale, cette dernière est née dans une forme de convergence de réseaux qui n´étaient pas uniquement politiques. « On en retiendra que l´idée n´était ni française, ni européenne, ni américaine ; qu´elle venait du tiers monde, que, par Senghor au moins, elle voulait s´accorder avec la grande idée du 'métissage' et avec celle de 'négritude', qui engageait l´Afrique subsaharienne et les Caraïbes, avec Aimé Césaire, autre porte-parole d´une vertu majeure des langues, la poésie » (Rey, Duval, Siouffi, 2007: 1280.…”

Section: L´organisation Des Relations Entre Les Premiers éTats Indépeunclassified

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2018

Pour Une Généalogie Critique De La Francophonie

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“…The latter was attributed to the ‘clarity’ of the language, which led Count of Rivarol (1784/1991:39) to conclude: ‘what is not clear is not French’. The myth of French's genius was also inscribed ‘in a conquering linguistic nationalism’ (Rey, Duval, & Siouffi 2007:703). The fact that French spread transnationally, owing to France's aggressive expansionist politics in Europe and its colonial enterprise in North America, was interpreted as reflecting its ‘perfection’ as a language (Vigouroux 2013).…”

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The discursive pathway of two centuries of raciolinguistic stereotyping: ‘Africans as incapable of speaking French’

Vigouroux

2017

Lang. Soc.

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This article is about the discursive pathway of grammatical structures such as y'a bon ‘there's good’, documenting how, in Hexagonal France, it has become an ‘enregistered emblem’ for indexing sub-Saharan Africans and, by extension, any African as allegedly incapable of speaking French competently. I argue that tracing pathways makes it possible to unveil the intricacy of the historicities of production, circulation, and interpretations of such racially based linguistic stereotypes. One of the central questions addressed in this article is: What are the sociohistorical conditions of the emergence and maintenance of these linguistic stereotypes? I show that these are grounded in long-standing linguistic ideologies of French as an exceptional language and of African languages and, therefore, their speakers, as primitive. I demonstrate how the rise of first age mass culture in the nineteenth century contributed to both the entextualization and the circulation of these stereotypical representations. (Stereotypes, mediatization, enregisterment, language ideology, France, Africa)*

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Mille ans de langue française, histoire d’une passion

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The teaching of modern languages in France and francophone Switzerland (1740–1940): a historiographical overview

The teaching of modern languages in France and francophone Switzerland (1740–1940): a historiographical overview

Dépolitiser un lien aux colonies pour construire une coopération a minima

The discursive pathway of two centuries of raciolinguistic stereotyping: ‘Africans as incapable of speaking French’

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