In: Cohabitation des langues et politique linguistique. La notion de "langue partenaire".
Dans cette contribution, le concept très métaphorique de « langue partenaire » est analysé, de manière assez critique, au regard du principe de territorialité des langues et du multilinguisme institutionnel, deux régimes politico-linguistiques qui cohabitent dans la Confédération helvétique. Les enjeux d’un partenariat entre langues, au niveau des institutions mais également des...
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In: Change of Paradigms – New Paradoxes. Recontextualizing Language and Linguistics
This study investigates the impact of French corpus planning efforts in two semantic domains, telecommunication and sport. Lists of Anglicisms and their French counterparts pertaining to these two domains are used in a corpus study using the Google Books corpus. A method to explore this corpus diachronically is proposed, and analyses assessing the odds of encountering the ‘official’ French...
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In: Crosslinguistic influence and crosslinguistic interaction in multilingual language learning
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In: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 2015, vol. 53, no. 1, p. 1-38
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In: Zeitschrift für Semiotik, 2013, vol. 34, no. 1, p. 85-107
Summary. The article discusses the discursive use of ideas related to language and thought in the context of texts advocating linguistic diversity. Drawing on examples from a variety of texts on the matter, it shows how arguments that can be associated with Whorfian ideas in the broadest sense of the term are used to complement an identity- oriented, romantic construal of small or...
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In: Deutschblätter, 2014, vol. 66, p. 75-83
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(Rapporti del Centro scientifico di competenza per il plurilinguismo)
La pubblicazione di questa rassegna della letteratura sull’insegnamento più precoce o più tardivo delle lingue straniere a scuola giunge in un momento in cui ha luogo in Svizzera un’intensa discussione politica sull’insegnamento delle lingue nella scuola primaria. Per questo motivo ci pare importante chiarire il contesto e la portata effettiva del presente studio.
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(Rapports du Centre scientifique de compétence sur le plurilinguisme)
La publication de cette revue de la littérature concernant l’enseignement précoce ou plus tardif des langues étrangères à l’école intervient au moment où a lieu en Suisse une intense discussion politique portant sur l’enseignement des langues étrangères au primaire. En raison de ce fait, il nous semble important de clarifier le contexte ainsi que la portée effective de la...
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In: International Journal of Multilingualism, 2013, vol. 10, no. 2, p. 181-195
In this paper a particular context where receptive multilingualism at work can be observed is discussed. The Swiss armed forces underwent a series of quite dramatic downsizing measures, which lead to a situation with increased amount of mixed groups and linguistically mixed situations regarding the first/native language of officers and the first/native languages of the recruits. Although...
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The standard theory of lexicalization patterns in the encoding of motion events (STLP in the remainder of this chapter; cf. Talmy 1985; Slobin 1996b; Talmy 2000, 2009) has been used in such a great number of research projects in the past two decades that its extensive introduction is superfluous. However, in this contribution I argue that that some of the claims of ‘mainstream’ STLP research...
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