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SUMMARY: Bilingualism in Metropolitan France: Regional Languages\, Language
  Contacts\, and Hybridity
DESCRIPTION: Explore the regional languages of France and the notion of lan
 guage hybridity that can result from the interplay of different languages i
 nfluencing one another—and what this reveals about identity. Undergraduate 
 and graduate students are invited to attend a guest presentation by Profess
 or Pierre-Don Giancarli on bilingualism in France—a country that is often s
 een as monolingual in […]
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 e regional languages of France and the notion of language hybridity that ca
 n result from the interplay of different languages influencing one another—
 and what this reveals about identity.</h3><p>Undergraduate and graduate stu
 dents are invited to attend a guest presentation by Professor Pierre-Don Gi
 ancarli on bilingualism in France—a country that is often seen as monolingu
 al in the imagination of people.</p><p>The presentation will focus on the l
 anguages of metropolitan France and\, in particular\, the island of Corsica
 . Professor Pierre-Don Giancarli will elaborate on:</p><ul><li>The state of
  bilingualism\, i.e. the French-Corsican or Corsican-French diglossia</li><
 li>The influence of French on Corsican and Corsican on French</li><li>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 language
 s</li><li>The hybridity that sometimes results from this</li></ul><p>The ev
 ent will be held in French.</p><p>Undergraduate and graduate students are i
 nvited to attend this presentation\, which is originally part of the course
  <a href="https://fhis.ubc.ca/course-description/fren470a/">FREN 470: Frenc
 h Language and Societies</a>.</p><h3>About the presenter:</h3><p>Professor 
 Pierre-Don Giancarli is a linguist who\, after having taught in several Fre
 nch universities (Corte\, Caen\, and La Sorbonne in Paris)\, works at the F
 aculty of Letters & Languages at the University of Poitiers. He has co-edit
 ed two books and has published works\, translations and some forty articles
  in contrastive linguistics\, language contacts\, bilingualism\, English li
 nguistics and French linguistics\, including varieties of French in Canada 
 (Laurentian \, Acadian and Chiac).</p><h3>Register to receive the Zoom link
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 h3>Questions?</h3><p>Contact Dr. Marie-Eve Bouchard at <a href="mailto:me.b
 ouchard@ubc.ca">me.bouchard@ubc.ca</a>.</p>
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