Le nom des langues
Like all names, language names individualise, in some cases they also order and classify, but moreover they represent a symbolic value which makes the name of a language a kind of ambassador. And like any ambassador, it carries a message, but what message? These are the questions that no doubt lie i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Université de Bretagne Occidentale – UBO
1996-03-01
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| Series: | La Bretagne Linguistique |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/lbl/6220 |
| Summary: | Like all names, language names individualise, in some cases they also order and classify, but moreover they represent a symbolic value which makes the name of a language a kind of ambassador. And like any ambassador, it carries a message, but what message? These are the questions that no doubt lie in the background of our meeting. In the first part of my presentation I try to answer my first question: what realities name the name of a language? In the second part, I consider the consequences of the referential modalities of the name of languages on their representations and their discursive potentialities. |
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| ISSN: | 1270-2412 2727-9383 |