"Vous venez d’où pour avoir cet accent ?"

Abstract

From the combination of notions of speech community and linguistic market we search to highlight the impact of the imaginary of the French language community (ethno-socio-linguistic imaginary) on the dynamics of the official linguistic markets, considering as main driver a secular linguistic ideology : the unilingualism . This modeling, briefly exposed, is used to analyze the phenomenon of stigmatization / illegitimation suffered in France by the "accents" inconsistent with the dominant standard in this area and especially the "accent du Midi".

Keywords

• speech community
• linguistic market
• ethno-socio-linguistic imaginary
• accent du Midi
• unilingualism