Publications

Publication details [#39513]

Manzano, Francis. 2004. Situation and use of Occitan in Languedoc. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 169 : 63–89.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language shift | language status | language use | language variety | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Occitan

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper on the situation and use of the Occitan language in Languedoc argues that the status of Occitan now appears ecologically marginal and relic, in spite of many efforts to offer this variety a functional position in French society.