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Publication details [#57603]

Blanchard, Nelly, Ronan Calvez and Mannaig Thomas. 2013. Signe et sens en balance: le breton affiché dans la ville de Brest. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2013 (223) : 137–152.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

French

Keywords

language maintenance | language revival | language use | sign | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Breton | French

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper discusses how Brest's participation in Breton revitalization efforts, as ratified by the « Ya d'ar brezhoneg » (‘Oui au breton’) charter signing in 2006, translates into -inter alia- the installation of numerous bilingual French-Breton direction signalling panels.