Sociolinguistics Symposium 19
Freie Universität Berlin | August 21-24, 2012
Programme: accepted abstracts
Abstract ID: 1030
Part of General Paper Session (Other abstracts in this session)
The transmission of the Moroccan Arabic language in France : a comparative study of the declared practices and the real practices in two families.
Authors: ABOURAHIM BOUAISSI, MAHA
Submitted by: ABOURAHIM BOUAISSI, MAHA (INALCO, France)
I will expose the results of my PHD which represents seven years of study and observations in two families across three generations. The first generation of each family immigrated to France and the remaining generations were either born or grew up in France.
As part of this study I selected two different families. The first family consisted of the first generation without being schooled or educated in Morocco prior to moving to France. The second family consisted of the first generation being schooled and taught French before immigrating to France.
After presenting the sociolinguistic profile of each member, and the story of the emigration and immigration of each first generation, I will present the linguistic representations that I collected interviewing each speaker of those two families. It was important to begin my research by knowing their epilinguistic speech so that I could understand their language choice. This will be presented in a second analysis with the corpus of the families conversations.
The aim of this study is not only to understand if the linguistic representations coincide with the real practices, but also to understand if by, analysing three generations of families, whether the Moroccan Arabic language can be considered as an endangered language today in France. Furthermore, if living with such bilingualism can create difficulties in social integration.