Jean‐Baptiste Marcellesi (1930‐2019): A major contribution to sociolinguistics as a social linguistics

Colonna, Romain

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“…Like those, it was deeply embedded in a left-wing political project of emancipation (although in many ways those movements can be read in the light of their engagement with the Communist Party, or lack thereof in the case of Lafont). Like the project developed by Marcellesi in Rouen (see Colonna, 2020b), Occitan sociolinguistics was interested in the historical emergence of languages as social objects. However, while Marcellesi, drawing on observations in his native Corsica, was interested in how speakers themselves define, categorize or name languages, Occitan sociolinguistics focus on social conditions of domination that result in diglossia and, most importantly, the erasure of collective voice.…”

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A materialist take on minoritization, emancipation, and language revitalization: Occitan sociolinguistics since the 1970s

Costa

2023

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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This paper introduces and discusses Occitan sociolinguistics as it evolved from the 1970s onward as a theory of language contact as conflict. It was developed in conjunction with its Catalan counterpart and as a reaction to Joshua Fishman's allocational model of diglossia, and came as a response to conditions of swift social and linguistic change in Southern France after the Second World War. This model, proposed mainly at first by Robèrt Lafont in Montpelhièr, is strongly materialist in that it focuses on the material conditions of language production and replaces the language movement among other social struggles. This paper first explores the roots of the contemporary Occitan movement and its links with the birth of Occitan sociolinguistics. It then analyzes key concepts in Occitan sociolinguistics such as diglossic ideology as essential to understand processes of minoritization, linguistic alienation, and social domination. Finally, it looks at how this approach conceptualizes language revitalization not as a linguistic issue but as a social one and suggests that Occitan sociolinguistics provides an alternative to models of language loss and revival rooted in cultural and identity politics.

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A materialist take on minoritization, emancipation, and language revitalization: Occitan sociolinguistics since the 1970s

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Jean‐Baptiste Marcellesi (1930‐2019): A major contribution to sociolinguistics as a social linguistics

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A materialist take on minoritization, emancipation, and language revitalization: Occitan sociolinguistics since the 1970s

A materialist take on minoritization, emancipation, and language revitalization: Occitan sociolinguistics since the 1970s

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