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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Main Author: Andrée Tabouret-Keller
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Université de Bretagne Occidentale – UBO 1996-03-01
Series:La Bretagne Linguistique
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/lbl/6220
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description 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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