Laurent Dubreuil
David Fieni (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801450563
- eISBN:
- 9780801467516
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801450563.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter shows how francophonie may designate the operation that consists, for the one who speaks, of designating himself or herself as colonized, while at the same time transpiercing ...
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This chapter shows how francophonie may designate the operation that consists, for the one who speaks, of designating himself or herself as colonized, while at the same time transpiercing prescriptive conventions. Yet the chapter contends that all who speak French today still have to disengage themselves from colonial usage. Citizens from the banlieue who grab our attention through words, writers for whom francophonie must be only a convenient term, journalists who too often remain within its parlance, people and passersby who speak among us, must bear witness to a beyond of the linguistic social field in the life of a word.Less
This chapter shows how francophonie may designate the operation that consists, for the one who speaks, of designating himself or herself as colonized, while at the same time transpiercing prescriptive conventions. Yet the chapter contends that all who speak French today still have to disengage themselves from colonial usage. Citizens from the banlieue who grab our attention through words, writers for whom francophonie must be only a convenient term, journalists who too often remain within its parlance, people and passersby who speak among us, must bear witness to a beyond of the linguistic social field in the life of a word.
