Henri Boyer : « New' French », « the language of the young », or « the language of urban developments » ? Comments on a linguistic object identified through the media.
Based on a collection of epilinguistic productions, with/without metalinguistic pretentions — press articles, mediatized works, etc. — this article examines the inscription, under various names, of a current sociolinguistic fact in the minds of the French linguistic community. The integration by codification of a generational (and social) deviance relating to the use of the French language (since the beginning of the 1980's) — a deviance concentrated more and more in city outskirts — is a phenomenon which in fact belongs to a centuries-old obsession of glottopolitical regulation.
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