L’argot des maçons de La Forêt-Fouesnant
In January 1991, I met retired bricklayers in La Forêt-Fouesnant who had used the slang known as “lagason” in their working lives. This is a codified language used to communicate on a building site without being understood by the people in charge of the work. The workers wanted to be properly fed an...
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Université de Bretagne Occidentale – UBO
1992-10-01
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| description | In January 1991, I met retired bricklayers in La Forêt-Fouesnant who had used the slang known as “lagason” in their working lives. This is a codified language used to communicate on a building site without being understood by the people in charge of the work. The workers wanted to be properly fed and watered on their sites, otherwise there would be reprisals on the quality of the work done. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-96b6f953d0e043dcbc33e730223512612024-02-13T10:43:40ZfraUniversité de Bretagne Occidentale – UBOLa Bretagne Linguistique1270-24122727-93831992-10-01810510610.4000/lbl.5405L’argot des maçons de La Forêt-FouesnantPatrick Le BescoIn January 1991, I met retired bricklayers in La Forêt-Fouesnant who had used the slang known as “lagason” in their working lives. This is a codified language used to communicate on a building site without being understood by the people in charge of the work. The workers wanted to be properly fed and watered on their sites, otherwise there would be reprisals on the quality of the work done.https://journals.openedition.org/lbl/5405sociolinguisticsslangcodified languagesocio-professional languageLa Forêt-Fouesnant |
| spellingShingle | Patrick Le Besco L’argot des maçons de La Forêt-Fouesnant La Bretagne Linguistique sociolinguistics slang codified language socio-professional language La Forêt-Fouesnant |
| title | L’argot des maçons de La Forêt-Fouesnant |
| title_full | L’argot des maçons de La Forêt-Fouesnant |
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| title_short | L’argot des maçons de La Forêt-Fouesnant |
| title_sort | l argot des macons de la foret fouesnant |
| topic | sociolinguistics slang codified language socio-professional language La Forêt-Fouesnant |
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