Hétérogénéité des plurilinguismes en Afrique à partir du terrain sénégalais

Juillard, Caroline

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“…3 The novelty of the PELF index is that it takes plurilingualism into account. However, it does so by assuming plurilingualism to be unique while regarding plurilingualism and multilingualism as heterogeneous and dynamic ( Juillard, 2005;Djité, 2009;Coulmas, 2018). Any interpretation of the PELF index per se and of its effects, when used as an explanatory variable, should consider the linguistic changes over space and time.…”

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A Pluri-Ethno-Linguistic Fragmentation Index

Cassilde

2020

RIO

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The Ethno-Linguistic Fragmentation index aims to measure the probability two random individuals belong to the same groupe. However, a person may belong to several groups. The Pluri-Ethno-Linguistic Fragmentation index generalizes the ELF index to consider multiple belongings within a country. PELF index results are discussed from the crucial case of Luxemburg. PELF index is computed in work, friends, and family linguistic environments; PELF is significantly smaller than ELF. The difference between ELF and PELF index for Luxemburg suggests a high linguistic cohesion at work and with friends.

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A Pluri-Ethno-Linguistic Fragmentation Index

Cassilde

2020

RIO

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“…4 Blommaert and Backus (2013, p. 6) summarize the discussion as "(a) an increasing problematization of the notion of 'language' in its traditional sense -shared, bounded, characterized by deep stable structures; (b) an increasing focus on 'language' as an emergent dynamic pattern of practices in which semiotic resources are being used in a particular wayoften captured by terms such as 'languaging', 'polylingualism' and so forth". Although the focus of most third wave sociolinguistic studies has been Western settings, such conclusions have also been reached in work carried out in Casamance (e.g., Dreyfus & Juillard, 2005;Goodchild, 2016Goodchild, , 2019Goodchild & Weidl, 2019;Juillard, 1990Juillard, , 2005Weidl, 2019). However, finegrained variationist studies focusing on individual features are confounded by the fact that this setting involves so many unstandardized and often undescribed languages -how can we identify variation if we have no baseline to compare it to?…”

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“…Wolof is extremely widespread in people’s repertoires as the de facto national language of Senegal; however, its usage can be determined by language attitudes. Some people are rather disdainful of Wolof, as the language of the Nordistes ‘northerners’, and avoid speaking it when possible (Juillard, 2005, p. 33), whereas for others, particularly younger people, it is favoured as the language of sophisticated urban identity (p. 68). Knowledge and usage of French is largely determined as a result of exposure to it through education or other formal channels.…”

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Language as category: using prototype theory to create reference points for the study of multilingual data

Watson

2019

Lang. cogn.

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In this paper I present a framework for the conceptualization of languages based on the prototype theory of categorization proposed by Eleanor Rosch and her colleagues for natural semantic categories. It is motivated by research in the Casamance region of southern Senegal, where a high level of multilingualism in non-standardized varieties is the norm, making accurate description of languages, and thus analysis of multilingual discourse, problematic. I show that languages in this context can be conceived of as categories, of which linguistic features may be more or less prototypical members. Such an approach can form the basis for a more robust method of language description, integrating rich sociolinguistic data, and facilitating more nuanced analysis of multilingual discourse data.

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“…But especially since Africa hosts a high proportion of the world's languages in settings that defy these ideologies, it is of prime importance to develop viewpoints that allow a better characterization of vitality and endangerment on this continent. An acknowledgement and better understanding of multilingualism must constitute a central component of this endeavour, since most Africans live in multilingual situations the diversity of which remains understudied in large parts (Di Carlo et al 2016;Juillard 2005;Lüpke 2010a).…”

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Language Endangerment and Language Documentation in Africa

Lüpke¹

2019

The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics

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Language endangerment and language documentation in Africa 1 How global is language endangerment? 1.1 The global and the local Language endangerment and death is seen as a process that operates worldwide. The metaphors used to describe the situations of language change and shift 1 captured under this umbrella term cast them as a human tragedy of the largest imaginable scale. Yet, when shifting our gaze to Africa, stories of resilience and adaptivity, of mobility, multilingualism and creativity, flank stories of disappearance and extinction. In this introduction I gauge how useful global perspectives on language endangerment and loss (henceforth LEL; see Mufwene forthcoming) are; whether they are really global; and what kind of mould they provide for describing locally anchored practices. A critique of universal scales and models and a quest for different perspectives on communicative practices on the African continent and for new ways to describe and document them is made in the remainder of the introduction, but runs through the chapter, focussing on ontologies, concepts and models of linguistic description and documentation (LDD) and LEL in 2; on sites of linguistic vitality in 3; and on situations of linguistic exclusion and marginalization in 4. Section 5 briefly explores how new phenomenological approaches may not only serve to capture Africa's linguistic diversity more fully, but how they may contribute to a decolonization of African linguistics and to the conceptualization of new forms of language development.

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Hétérogénéité des plurilinguismes en Afrique à partir du terrain sénégalais

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A Pluri-Ethno-Linguistic Fragmentation Index

A Pluri-Ethno-Linguistic Fragmentation Index

Language as category: using prototype theory to create reference points for the study of multilingual data

Language Endangerment and Language Documentation in Africa

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