French in and Out of France Language Policies, Intercultural Antagonisms and Dialogue

This book examines policy planning and implementation and language variation in the realm of intercultural communication in France, Europe, the Americas, Australia, North and Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. The book aims to discern trends in the development of the capacity of Francophone speakers to engage in dialogue across linguistic boundaries. Each study in the volume seeks to evaluate and analyse the antagonistic situations that have resulted from colonial culture and the post-independence hegemonic cultures. These situations are investigated through their expression in the French language and the languages with which it coexists in the countries considered here. The expertise of linguists and language specialists in this volume provides formalist and structural insights and an innovative phenomenology of language and newly available quantitative and qualitative studies of synchronic language. These methodologies are applied to a wide range of subject areas: law, history, literature, politics and society. Taken as a whole the book offers a fresh perspective on the issues surrounding French within and beyond France in the post-colonial and Francophone contexts. Contents: Kamal Salhi: Introduction: French Within and Without France--Gabrielle Parker: The Fifth Republic and the Francophone Project--Anne Judge: Contemporary Issues in French Linguistic Policies--Stephen Judge: Language as a Human Right: A Legal Problem for France--Nigel Armstrong/Mikael Jamin: Le franais des banlieues: Uniformity and Discontinuity in the French of the Hexagone--Kamal Salhi/Henri Jeanjean: France and her Linguistic Minorities: A Case of 'Domestic Colonialism' in Occitania--Richard Wakely: Frenchin Belgium: French, French Belgium--Joy Charnley: Le point de vue suisse romand: the FreSalhi, Kamal is the author of 'French in and Out of France Language Policies, Intercultural Antagonisms and Dialogue' with ISBN 9783906768472 and ISBN 3906768473.