La sociolinguistique en France aujourd’hui : les tendances et les équipes

Abstract

As a declared discipline, sociolinguistics arose from the contradictory aspect of certain postulates of linguistics: « all languages are equal in structure », « all speakers are equal in competence »; but at the same time, linguistics notes the de facto inequality of languages and speakers, and various sources of linguistic alienation. In France, there are two main areas of research: school sociolinguistics, in the broad sense of the term, which looks at the difficulties encountered at school, depending on the various components of the situation, and sociolinguistics which looks at the problems of regional languages, or more precisely, minority languages.

Keywords

• sociolinguistics
• sociolinguistic minorities
• regional languages
• France
• schools