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- Title
De la politique linguistique institutionnelle à celles implicites des usagers en contexte francophone. Quelles relations? L'exemple de Madagascar.
- Authors
Randriamarotsimba, Vololona
- Abstract
This article deals with the management of the Malagasy plurilingualism. It is an attempt using an ecological perspective to identify coherence or discrepancies between the State recent linguistic policies and the implicit policies of the Malagasy speakers. Madagascar has always had its linguistic policies. It is the implementation which is defective, which puts in jeopardy the young Malagasy's -numerically in majority- chance to gain anything from the ambient plurilingualism. From April 2007 to November 2010, for instance, an institutionalized trilingualism conferred the status of official language on the English language in the same way as Malagasy and French. It is a geopolitical choice not at all based on the insignificant number of English-speaking Malagasy. Such a way of managing languages, instead of solving the existing linguistic tensions, worsens them and makes perennial the embedded regional varieties/Malagasy/French/English diglossia. How do the Malagasy youth, numerically in majority, cope with this problematic plurilingualism? This work is an attempt to respond to this question through the description of the last three linguistic policies of the State, the description of the language usage, the description of the linguistic representations of some urban and rural witnesses, and the description of the rap language promoted by some young people on the radio.
- Publication
Synergies Pays Germanophones, 2012, Issue 5, p39
- ISSN
1866-5268
- Publication type
Academic Journal