Une ou deux langues ? Des positions et des faits

Juillard, Caroline

doi:10.3917/ling.372.0003

Cited by 5 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 2 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…An offshoot of this is that the boundaries of any language, dialect, or other lect, so often viewed as essential, are a social construct which can be manipulated and reshaped according to the strategic needs of the moment. See Canut (1998:163-4) and Juillard (2001) for an approach to heterogeneity and the construction of boundaries. Let us nevertheless not forget that, for obvious reasons, this does not entail that any empirical process in a multid ialectal context will have the same outcome and be directly comparable to one in a multilingual context (we need only recall here the case of koines).…”

Section: The Invariables Of Language Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Language processes, theory and description of language change, and building on the past

Nicolaï

2005

Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper is a continuation of earlier work on the controversial genetic classification of Songhay as Nilo-Saharan (Nicolaï 2003), where I show that the results thus far (cf. Bender 1995, Ehret 2001) are unsatisfactory. This is attributable to the authors' models and methods, the assumptions these rest upon, the nature of the data, and a priori factors in research. I discuss theoretical hypotheses regarding the ways in which languages change, the methods and procedures used by scholars, and the ways in which empirical data are used. This leads me to ask the following questions at the outset: 1) Are we entitled to make explicit use of virtual or real multilingual/multidialectal factors as normal theoretical parameters in building models of language change and proposing long-distance relationships? (This would imply changes to the classical tree representations and facilitate the incorporation of areal and contact phenomena.) 2) Would it be helpful to postulate an anthropologically defined setting for the interaction of structural linguistic forms, basic c ognitive processes, and punctual input from historical contingencies, resulting in rearrangements of norms of use and formal structures? (This question is vital to the study of areal phenomena and situations lying beyond the theoretical constraints of the standard genetic model.) These questions are in line with others raised during the Symposium with regard to the relations between theories of language structure and theories of cognition, the degree of conscious motivation for processes of language change and grammaticalization, and adabtability in language change and functionalization. In answering them, I make a number of suggestions based on my overall views on the practice of comparative linguistics, the construction of theoretical frameworks, and my recent empirical results in Nilo-Saharan and Afroasiatic.

show abstract

Section: The Invariables Of Language Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Language processes, theory and description of language change, and building on the past

Nicolaï

2005

Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

L’espace sociolinguistique et les actes de langage

Juillard¹

2016

La Linguistique

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Processus de géographisation linguistique et identifications multiples au Burkina Faso

Panis¹

2017

Langage Et Société

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

À partir de l’étude d’extraits de conversations réalisées au Burkina Faso au sein de deux familles, cet article propose de questionner la circulation des catégorisations issues de la dialectologie africaniste et leur rôle dans la spatialisation des pratiques langagières qui s’opère dans de nombreux discours épilinguistiques. Après avoir dressé un état des lieux de la littérature dialectologique concernant le mooré et le bisa, j’analyse la fluctuation dont ces discours sont l’objet. Cela me permet de mettre en lumière l’importance de la spatialité et des changements d’échelle dans la mise en discours des pratiques langagières et des sujets parlants. Cette étude m’amène à présenter la notion de géographisation linguistique afin d’expliquer les processus d’identification du sujet parlant observés tout en remettant en question la légitimité des discours tendant à cartographier de manière figée les pratiques langagières.

show abstract

Une ou deux langues ? Des positions et des faits

Cited by 5 publications

References 2 publications

Language processes, theory and description of language change, and building on the past

Language processes, theory and description of language change, and building on the past

L’espace sociolinguistique et les actes de langage

Processus de géographisation linguistique et identifications multiples au Burkina Faso

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About