TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kamal Salhi
PY  - 2012
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1422-9005
SN  - 9783035301168
TI  - French in and out of France
T2  - Language Policies, Intercultural Antagonisms and Dialogue
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0116-8
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1054454
N2  - This book examines policy planning and implementation and language variation in the realm of intercultural communication in France, Europe, the Americas, Australia, North and Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. The book aims to discern trends in the development of the capacity of Francophone speakers to engage in dialogue across linguistic boundaries. Each study in the volume seeks to evaluate and analyse the antagonistic situations that have resulted from colonial culture and the post-independence hegemonic cultures. These situations are investigated through their expression in the French language and the languages with which it coexists in the countries considered here. The expertise of linguists and language specialists in this volume provides formalist and structural insights and an innovative phenomenology of language and newly available quantitative and qualitative studies of synchronic language. These methodologies are applied to a wide range of subject areas: law, history, literature, politics and society. Taken as a whole the book offers a fresh perspective on the issues surrounding French within and beyond France in the post-colonial and Francophone contexts.
KW  - Language Policy, Intercultural antagonisms, Human Rights, French, Linguistic Minorities, Postcolonial Cultures
LA  - English
ER  -