Abstract
Until now, Acadie and its representations have always been determined in academia by those of the community’s elite—its leaders. Rarely has Acadie been described through the voices of its members. The first of its kind, this article is part of a larger study (ethnographic in nature) that seeks to understand the relation between the Acadian identity of the Canadian province of New Brunswick and the French language. To do so, the meanings, similarities and differences between the concepts of Acadie and Acadien are compared and contrasted through an analysis of ideological discourse within New Brunswick’s three French-speaking communities. In doing so, regional tendencies in the role of language in the Acadian identity emerge, illustrating that the common rhetoric of previous years used in the description of Acadie and the Acadiens as poorly composed, limited, and misrepresented.
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