FR 1037 - FRENCHES IN EUROPE: DIALECTS IN DIALOGUE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description Il drache ! Dans les annees septante... Peux-tu attendre sur ces clients ? Elles refusent de poutzer toute la chambre... On est amis, peut-on faire schmolitz ? Ou est-ce que vous entendriez ces tournures? Font-elles partie du francais "standard"? Qu'est-ce que le francais dit "standard" de toute facon ? Dans ce cours nous repondrons a toutes ces questions et a bien d'autres en explorant la diversite linguistique de l'Europe francophone la ou elle est en contact intense avec d'autres spheres linguistiques: le nord de la France (Lille). Nous analyserons alors les prononciations, les mots, les tournures et les innovations recentes dans ce contexte multidialectal et multilingue. Car pouvoir dire parler le francais suppose forcement pouvoir dire entendre et comprendre le francais--dans toutes ses differentes realisations. Notre approche multilitteraties ouvrira la porte a l'etude de la difference dialectale en nous permettant un acces aux textes dans le sens large du terme: textes oraux (balados, radio, enregistrements), textes ecrits (extraits litteraires, articles de presse, textes techniques), textes multimedias (television, cinema, publicites, vlogues, youtube). It is pouring ! In the nineteen seventies... can you wait for these customers? They refuse to clean the whole room. We're friends eh, can we use the familiar (beers in hand with arms together)? Where would you hear these turns of phrase? Are they a part of standard French? What is standard French anyway? In this course, we answer these questions and many more by exploring the linguistic diversity of French-speaking Europe there where it is in intense contact with other linguistic communities. We will thus analyze pronunciations, words, expressions and recent innovations in this multidialectal and multilinguistic context. Indeed, being able to say you speak French necessarily implies being able to hear and understand French in all its different manifestations. Our multiliteracies approach opens the door to the study of dialectal difference by giving us real access to texts in the widest sense of the term: spoken texts (podcasts, radio, recordings), written texts (literary excerpts, press articles, technical writings), multimedia texts (television, movies, advertisements, vlogs, youtube).
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

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