Multilingualism Everywhere, "Linguistic Rights" Nowhere? Education and Monolingual Ideology in French Guiana, in a comparison with Wallis (South Pacific)
International audience This paper deals with the representations of linguistic diversity underlying language policy in the educational system in French overseas territories, both at the level of policy making (constitutional and official documents) and of its implementation (teachers' and paren...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:halshs-00990856v1 2023-05-15T18:33:55+02:00 Multilingualism Everywhere, "Linguistic Rights" Nowhere? Education and Monolingual Ideology in French Guiana, in a comparison with Wallis (South Pacific) Léglise, Isabelle Muni Toke, Valelia Structure et Dynamique des Langues (SeDyL) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco)-Institut de recherche pour le développement IRD : UR135 Tromso, Norway 2014-04-02 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00990856 en eng HAL CCSD halshs-00990856 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00990856 Education, learning and Indigenous People - Scales of Gouvernance, the UN and Indigenous People https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00990856 Education, learning and Indigenous People - Scales of Gouvernance, the UN and Indigenous People, Apr 2014, Tromso, Norway multilingualism language rights bilingual education French overseas territories language policy multilinguism droits linguistiques éducation bilingue outre-mer politique linguistique [SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject Conference papers 2014 ftccsdartic 2021-10-31T11:41:28Z International audience This paper deals with the representations of linguistic diversity underlying language policy in the educational system in French overseas territories, both at the level of policy making (constitutional and official documents) and of its implementation (teachers' and parents' discourse). We focus on the case of French Guiana, where multilingualism is widespread. We present some examples of the integration of minority languages in the French Guianese educational system and show that they are paradoxically the product of a monolingual perspective. Therefore, we examine the mismatch between the actual multilingual practices and the monolingual models of society involved in the current educational policies. While French Guiana is thought of as a "mosaic" of linguistic and cultural communities, another French overseas territory, Wallis (South Pacific), is on the contrary described as a homogeneous block. We show that these representations, far from being opposite, are in fact both the product of monolingual ideology - i.e. representations of society in which monolingualism is the norm, both at collective and individual level. We will discuss this situation in the light of current debates about the notion of "language rights" in linguistics. A partir du cas de la Guyane, où le multilinguisme sociétal et le plurilinguisme individuel sont généralisés, nous interrogerons les représentations de la diversité linguistique qui sous-tendent les politiques linguistiques éducatives de la France en cours dans l'outremer français - tant du côté de leur production (cadre constitutionnel et textes officiels) que de leur mise en œuvre (enseignants, parents d'élèves). Nous présenterons quelques exemples des dispositifs possibles d'intégration des langues minoritaires sur le sol guyanais, et montrerons qu'ils relèvent d'un traitement monolingue de la question. Nous interrogerons donc cette inadéquation entre les pratiques langagières observées, plurilingues, et les modèles de société impliqués par le cadre ... Conference Object Tromso Tromso Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Norway Pacific Tromso ENVELOPE(16.546,16.546,68.801,68.801) |
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multilingualism language rights bilingual education French overseas territories language policy multilinguism droits linguistiques éducation bilingue outre-mer politique linguistique [SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics Léglise, Isabelle Muni Toke, Valelia Multilingualism Everywhere, "Linguistic Rights" Nowhere? Education and Monolingual Ideology in French Guiana, in a comparison with Wallis (South Pacific) |
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International audience This paper deals with the representations of linguistic diversity underlying language policy in the educational system in French overseas territories, both at the level of policy making (constitutional and official documents) and of its implementation (teachers' and parents' discourse). We focus on the case of French Guiana, where multilingualism is widespread. We present some examples of the integration of minority languages in the French Guianese educational system and show that they are paradoxically the product of a monolingual perspective. Therefore, we examine the mismatch between the actual multilingual practices and the monolingual models of society involved in the current educational policies. While French Guiana is thought of as a "mosaic" of linguistic and cultural communities, another French overseas territory, Wallis (South Pacific), is on the contrary described as a homogeneous block. We show that these representations, far from being opposite, are in fact both the product of monolingual ideology - i.e. representations of society in which monolingualism is the norm, both at collective and individual level. We will discuss this situation in the light of current debates about the notion of "language rights" in linguistics. A partir du cas de la Guyane, où le multilinguisme sociétal et le plurilinguisme individuel sont généralisés, nous interrogerons les représentations de la diversité linguistique qui sous-tendent les politiques linguistiques éducatives de la France en cours dans l'outremer français - tant du côté de leur production (cadre constitutionnel et textes officiels) que de leur mise en œuvre (enseignants, parents d'élèves). Nous présenterons quelques exemples des dispositifs possibles d'intégration des langues minoritaires sur le sol guyanais, et montrerons qu'ils relèvent d'un traitement monolingue de la question. Nous interrogerons donc cette inadéquation entre les pratiques langagières observées, plurilingues, et les modèles de société impliqués par le cadre ... |
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Multilingualism Everywhere, "Linguistic Rights" Nowhere? Education and Monolingual Ideology in French Guiana, in a comparison with Wallis (South Pacific) |
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Multilingualism Everywhere, "Linguistic Rights" Nowhere? Education and Monolingual Ideology in French Guiana, in a comparison with Wallis (South Pacific) |
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Multilingualism Everywhere, "Linguistic Rights" Nowhere? Education and Monolingual Ideology in French Guiana, in a comparison with Wallis (South Pacific) |
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Multilingualism Everywhere, "Linguistic Rights" Nowhere? Education and Monolingual Ideology in French Guiana, in a comparison with Wallis (South Pacific) |
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Multilingualism Everywhere, "Linguistic Rights" Nowhere? Education and Monolingual Ideology in French Guiana, in a comparison with Wallis (South Pacific) |
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multilingualism everywhere, "linguistic rights" nowhere? education and monolingual ideology in french guiana, in a comparison with wallis (south pacific) |
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