Immense Estonie : les leçons sociolinguistiques d'un « petit pays » – Application de la sémiotique narrative à la sociologie du langage
The exemplarity of Estonia, a Baltic country whose Finnic language has gained, lost and regained official status out of diglossia several times in less than one century, is awesome, from the standpoint of sociolinguistics. Here we will highlight the « lessons » that can be learned from the choices m...
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| Language: | fra |
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Université de Bretagne Occidentale – UBO
2022-09-01
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| Series: | La Bretagne Linguistique |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/lbl/4290 |
| Summary: | The exemplarity of Estonia, a Baltic country whose Finnic language has gained, lost and regained official status out of diglossia several times in less than one century, is awesome, from the standpoint of sociolinguistics. Here we will highlight the « lessons » that can be learned from the choices made by of Estonia in the course contemporary history, both in the development of the Estonian language corpus -including promotion of small akin varieties and languages, as võro and mulgi or Kihnu We’ll hint at Estonian exemplarity through three prospects: (1) radical language reform, of the monolectal and artefactual type (Johannes Aavik), (2) elegantly disruptive semiotics (F.R. Kreutzwald), (3) polynomic resurgence of akin languages and dialects alongside with the official language (mulgi, võro, setu, kihnu), reversing the monolectal doctrine of the first language reform. Adaptability and reflexivity are main assets in this sociolinguistic « success story ». |
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| ISSN: | 1270-2412 2727-9383 |