Aspects des parlers jeunes en Algérie - article ; n°1 ; vol.114, pg 104-113

Leila Tounsi

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Langue française - Année 1997 - Volume 114 - Numéro 1 - Pages 104-113
Leila TOUNSl : Aspects of the speech of young people in Algeria. In today's multilingual and strife-torn Algeria, the young generation, who are the majority in numerical terms but are more and more on the fringes of socioeconomic and political life, arc creating their own areas of freedom and inventing their own personal linguistic codes. Unlike their elders, who are more than ever confronted with the « linguistic issue » and with « identity problems », they seem to be drawing without any hesitation elements from the languages at their disposal : dialectal Arabic and Berber in all their regional varieties, French and written Arabic. They use their words to express the dullness or the violence of their daily lives but also to express love, friendship, and their sense of values and sometimes, their hopes. They sprinkle their everyday conversation with this language and also their artistic and creative fields such as songwriting, theatre, cinema and even the written press.
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Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.

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• Publié par: LANGUE_FRANCAISE
• Publié le: 01 janvier 1997
• Nombre de lectures: 82
• Langue: Français

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Leila Tounsi

Aspects des parlers jeunes en Algérie

In: Langue française. N°114, 1997. pp. 104-113.

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Leila Tounsi: Aspects of the speech of young people in Algeria

In today's multilingual and strife-torn Algeria, the young generation, who are the majority in numerical terms but are more and

more on the fringes of socioeconomic and political life, arc creating their own areas of freedom and inventing their own personal

linguistic codes. Unlike their elders, who are more than ever confronted with the « linguistic issue » and with « identity problems

», they seem to be drawing without any hesitation elements from the languages at their disposal : dialectal Arabic and Berber in

all their regional varieties, French and written Arabic. They use their words to express the dullness or the violence of their daily

lives but also to express love, friendship, and their sense of values and sometimes, their hopes. They sprinkle their everyday

conversation with this language and also their artistic and creative fields such as songwriting, theatre, cinema and even the

written press. In today's multilingual and strife-torn Algeria, the young generation, who are the majority in numerical terms but are

more and more on the fringes of socioeconomic and political life, arc creating their own areas of freedom and inventing their own

personal linguistic codes. Unlike their elders, who are more than ever confronted with the « linguistic issue » and with « identity

problems », they seem to be drawing without any hesitation elements from the languages at their disposal : dialectal Arabic and

Berber in all their regional varieties, French and written Arabic. They use their words to express the dullness or the violence of

their daily lives but also to express love, friendship, and their sense of values and sometimes, their hopes. They sprinkle their

everyday conversation with this language and also their artistic and creative fields such as songwriting, theatre, cinema and even

the written press.

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Tounsi Leila. Aspects des parlers jeunes en Algérie. In: Langue française. N°114, 1997. pp. 104-113.

doi : 10.3406/lfr.1997.5388

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