Abstract
As an obvious outcome of regional language policies in France during World War II, different ‘top-down’ language policies conducted by the Fourth Republic (1946–1958) and the Fifth Republic (from 1958) have continued to be implicitly in favour of the exclusive use of French as the national language and against the use of regional languages. Apart of some exceptions that will be discussed later, regional languages have continued to be generally banned from the public sphere in France, especially through the mechanism of the compulsory education system. This situation was aggravated in 1992, when the French language was legally and constitutionally declared as la langue de la Republique (’the language of the Republic’), as stated in Article 2 of the French Constitution. This amendment seems to be emblematic, since it placed the already excluded regional languages outside the legal framework in France as well.KeywordsLanguage PolicyPublic SphereLinguistic DiversityMinority LanguageNational LanguageThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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