Explore the regional languages of France and the notion of language hybridity that can result from the interplay of different languages influencing one another—and what this reveals about identity.
Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to attend a guest presentation by Professor Pierre-Don Giancarli on bilingualism in France—a country that is often seen as monolingual in the imagination of people.
The presentation will focus on the languages of metropolitan France and, in particular, the island of Corsica. Professor Pierre-Don Giancarli will elaborate on:
- The state of bilingualism, i.e. the French-Corsican or Corsican-French diglossia
- The influence of French on Corsican and Corsican on French
- What this reveals to us in terms of identity when the influence of one language on the other is voluntary and is due to competent speakers in both languages
- The hybridity that sometimes results from this
The event will be held in French.
Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to attend this presentation, which is originally part of the course FREN 470: French Language and Societies.
About the presenter:
Professor Pierre-Don Giancarli is a linguist who, after having taught in several French universities (Corte, Caen, and La Sorbonne in Paris), works at the Faculty of Letters & Languages at the University of Poitiers. He has co-edited two books and has published works, translations and some forty articles in contrastive linguistics, language contacts, bilingualism, English linguistics and French linguistics, including varieties of French in Canada (Laurentian , Acadian and Chiac).
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Questions?
Contact Dr. Marie-Eve Bouchard at me.bouchard@ubc.ca.
