Les français d'ici: des discours et des usages éd. par Sandrine Hallion et Nicole Rosen

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Reviewed by: Les français d'ici: des discours et des usages éd. par Sandrine Hallion et Nicole Rosen Kelle L. Marshall Hallion, Sandrine, Nicole Rosen, éd. Les français d'ici: des discours et des usages. PU de Laval, 2019. ISBN 978-2-7637-4032-4. Pp. 224 The colloquium Les français d'ici has been organized biennially since 2006 at Canadian universities in regions with a Francophone heritage and community, such as Kingston (ON), Moncton (NB), and Montréal (QC). The colloquium is meant to be a platform for the presentation and discussion of linguistic research on North American varieties of French, including both formal and functional analytical approaches. Each instantiation of the colloquium has a particular organizing theme. In 2016, Les français d'ici was held at l'Université de Saint-Boniface in Winnipeg (MB), with the theme of comparative analyses of varieties of French and the promotion of trans-Canadian perspectives. This volume contains nine of the papers presented at the 2016 meeting, the first time the colloquium was hosted in western Canada. Five of the texts feature comparative analyses in which western varieties of French or discourses on them or on their speakers are represented. In the first of these, Laurence Arrighi and Émilie Urbain present a comparative corpus analysis of written and social media discourses surrounding French in Manitoba, comparing it to their previous [End Page 254] findings on discourses of the acadianisation of Canadian varieties of French. Geneviève Bernard Barbeau discusses an analysis of tweets and media discourse associated with the hashtag #nouscomptons, emanating from Francophone regions outside of Québec—including western provinces—during the 2015 federal elections. Pierre-Don Giancarli offers a detailed comparative analysis of pronominal verbs in oral and written Acadian and Laurentian varieties of French, drawing on corpora from New Brunswick, Québec, Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. Liliane Rodriguez discusses a topolectal analysis of lexical variation in Manitoban varieties of French, investigating adolescent speech from fifteen communities. Samantha Cook interprets the literary devices of language use and code-switching in the creation of bilingual space and identity in Jean Chicoine's novel L'ange about a Franco-Manitoban poet. The volume also includes four texts featuring variation within eastern Canadian varieties of French. Franz Meier examines data drawn from thirty-nine interviews with Québécois journalistic experts (instructors, chroniqueurs de langage, translators, and copy-editors) on their conceptions of français correct and norms for written journalism in Québec. Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh and Julia Mitko analyze the habitual aspect expressed by morphosyntactic forms such as the conditional mood, the past of the conditional, and the verbal construction aller + infinitive, among others, in varieties of French from New Brunswick, Newfoundland, and Louisiana. Carmen LeBlanc presents an analysis of English-language borrowings in madelinot French, comparing them to borrowings in Louisiana, Québécois, and Acadian French. Finally, Wladyslaw Cichocki and Yves Perrault present an acoustical analysis of variants of the phoneme "R" in five Acadian varieties of French in New Brunswick. In short, the texts chosen for the volume highlight the continued dedication among scholars in a wide range of linguistic subfields to the study of North American varieties of French. This collection will certainly be of interest to those who follow new developments in this field or who study variation in French more broadly. Kelle L. Marshall Pepperdine University (CA) Copyright © 2021 American Association of Teachers of French