« Badume, Standard et Norme » à la lumière de l’anglais vernaculaire des Appalaches

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to offer an answer to the following question: what serves as a model in a linguistic community that is not directly exposed to the national literary norm? In order to answer this question, the author relies on the sociolinguistic model proposed by Jean Le Dû and Yves Le Berre for Brittany - « Badume, Standard and Norm » (1994) - to determine whether it applies in the same way to the population of the Appalachian mountains in the southern United States and in the broader Anglophone cultural context.

Keywords

• norm
• sociolinguistics
• English (language)
• Appalachia
• USA
• dialect