Language:
English
Year of publication:
2011
Titel der Quelle:
Israel Studies in Language and Society
Angaben zur Quelle:
4,1 (2011) 72-39
Keywords:
French language
;
Language and culture
;
Sociolinguistics
;
Jews, North African Languages
Abstract:
Despite its subordinate status, French is found in Israel in a number of social contexts, wherethe language is perceived and practiced differently, and evolves according to varioussociolinguistic patterns. We discuss French here in terms of “multiple francophonies”(French-speaking groups) and consider its diverse dynamism. We correlated sociolinguisticaspects with sociological concerns, to question the extent to which it is possible to find somecoherence in the picture yielded on the surface by the “cacophony of francophonies”. On thebasis of a series of studies performed since the 1980s, we investigate the developments of themajor modalities of French and French speakers in Israel: the ethnocultural vernacular ofearly immigrants from North Africa, the development of French into “Franbreu” in givenmilieus, the expansion of a French-Hebrew interlanguage among learners and thetransformation of French into the marker of a new transnational diaspora among immigrantsfrom 1990 to the present day. For each modality, we present a sociological description ofrelevant milieus and aspects of their practice of French. The final section proposes acomprehensive view of this presence of francophonies, and what they teach us in generalterms and about Israeli society.
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