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Desired Language: Languages as objects of national ideologyEdited by Francesc Feliu
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 35] 2023
► pp. 69–95
At first we wonder if a linguistic autobiography is likely to be a valid document. Linguistic autobiography needs the notion of language to be put apart from language practices. Family biography, as well as individual, consists mainly in linguistic ideas about language practices, that’s why true story-telling is difficult.
Historical perspective helps to put the individual linguistic history in a social linguistic history. So experience may take sense in history, often using linguistic insecurity as a telling detail.
Article language: French