Publications

Publication details [#55024]

Walters, Keith. 2011. Gendering French in Tunisia: language ideologies and nationalism. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2011 (211) : 83–111.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | gender | historical explanation | language attitude | language use

Language as a subject

Arabic | French

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study attempts to explain a general ideology amongst Tunisians and North Africans more broadly, that links the employment of French to women, whilst symbolically relating the use of Arabic to men. It then tries to historicize this "gendering" phenomenon.