Genèse et représentations de répertoires plurilingues

Abstract

Following research on the emerging bilingualism of migrants in the course of their unguided acquisition of the host language, the Basel-Neuchâtel research team began to question the traditional, additive models of bi- / plurilingualism. and to share an integrative conception of plurilingual competence, defining the plurilingual repertoire as a set of resources, comprising elements of different registers and languages between which the boundaries are blurred. It is true that the additive conceptions remain well rooted in people’s everyday knowledge. In this paper, we address the question of knowing how the plurilingual actors themselves conceive of this tension by analyzing their discourse, but also and above all the different forms of implementation of their plural repertoires in what it is appropriate to call the ‘plurilingual mode’.

Keywords

• plurilingual competence
• plurilingual repertoire
• integrative conception
• everyday knowledge