The Luxembourgish, natural child of the Second World War ; Le luxembourgeois, enfant naturel de la Seconde Guerre mondiale

International audience ; The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is a trilingual state in which all residents have the choice of using Luxembourgish, French or German to express themselves since the Law on the Language Regime of the 24 th of February 1984 which recognizes and ratifies their official and unlimited coexistence. However, the Luxembourgish language, as the only national language of Luxembourg, has undergone a recent quality change in the country's history. From simple oral and regional variety of the High German, it acquired the status of language to support an identity and political demand... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Lefrançois, Nicolas
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
Verlag/Hrsg.: HAL CCSD
Schlagwörter: Triglossy / Language planning and language policy / Sociolinguiistic / Triglossie / Politique linguistique / Luxembourg / Sociolinguistique Linguistique Epistémologie / [SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics / [SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology
Sprache: Französisch
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International audience ; The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is a trilingual state in which all residents have the choice of using Luxembourgish, French or German to express themselves since the Law on the Language Regime of the 24 th of February 1984 which recognizes and ratifies their official and unlimited coexistence. However, the Luxembourgish language, as the only national language of Luxembourg, has undergone a recent quality change in the country's history. From simple oral and regional variety of the High German, it acquired the status of language to support an identity and political demand of the population during the Second World War: to dissociate itself from Nazi Germany and to affirm its cultural peculiarity. The analysis of the Luxembourg case then raises the question of language not only from the point of view of its morphology but also of its socio-political role. ; Le Grand-Duché de Luxembourg se présente comme un État institutionnellement trilingue dans lequel tous les résidents ont le loisir d'utiliser au choix le luxembourgeois, le français ou l'allemand pour s'exprimer depuis la loi sur le régime des langues du 24 février 1984 qui reconnaît et entérine leur coexistence officielle et illimitée. Toutefois, le luxembourgeois, en tant que seule langue nationale du Luxembourg, a connu un changement de qualité récent dans l'histoire du pays. De simple variété orale et régionale du haut-allemand, il a acquis le statut de langue pour servir de support à une revendication identitaire et politique de la population lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale : se dissocier de l'Allemagne nazie et affirmer sa particularité culturelle inaliénable. L'analyse du cas luxembourgeois pose alors la question de la langue non pas uniquement du point de vue de sa morphologie mais surtout de celui de son rôle socio-politique.