Présentation : l'autorité de l'état et l'autorité linguistique

Abstract

What links the formation of the state, the formation of linguistic norms, and the development of a grammatical tradition of the state language? In France governmental institutions not only help to spread the state language, but also inspire the first analyses of that language. The model for the grammatisation of French, and the context to promote such a process, is the formation of a national judicial system, through the demand that customary law be written down, and then approved by central authorities. Establishing local texts written in the national language required the analysis of that language, and based that analysis on concepts drawn from legal language. Establishing a fixed national norm depended on the creation of a judicial system founded on writing, and on the royal bureaucracy that resulted from that change.

Les enseignants de droit face à la norme linguistique à l'université

“…Le premier, formé au droit, prend pour modèle de sélection des usages linguistiques le processus de fixation des usages juridiques dans les recueils de coutumes, lequel se fait sensiblement au même moment (D. A. Kibbee, 2002Kibbee, et 2003 : la grammaire qu'il publie en 1550, imprégnée de terminologie juridique, est formellement et conceptuellement marquée par cette influence. Quant au second, élevé dans une famille d'illustres juristes, il semble transposer, dans le domaine linguistique, le grand débat juridique de l'époque entre la conception coutumière d'un droit naissant de l'usage, et la conception rationaliste et universaliste du droit naturel.…”

Contradictions of standard language in Europe: Implications for the study of practices and publics

“…They add that participation in a regime of standardisation is not primarily a matter of speaking such highly valued forms. 2 Among the recent sociohistorical works on the origins of European language ideology, see Olender 1989and Kibbee 2002. For those living in standardised regimes -as we all now do -standards command authority; other linguistic forms seem inadequate (non-language) or simply invisible.…”

“…Early examples are Cohn (1985) and Harries (1988). 2 Among the recent sociohistorical works on the origins of European language ideology, see Olender 1989and Kibbee 2002. Bauman and Briggs 2003 show the continuities among seventeenth-and eighteenth-century works.…”