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Regional language vitality in the linguistic landscape : hidden hierarchies on street signs in Toulouse

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Amos, H. William (2017) Regional language vitality in the linguistic landscape : hidden hierarchies on street signs in Toulouse. International Journal of Multilingualism, 14 (2). pp. 93-108. doi:10.1080/14790718.2015.1103244 ISSN 1479-0718.

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Abstract

The city of Toulouse is a major contributor to the public visibility of Occitan, a regional language (RL) associated with southern France. Whilst French law recognizes the country's RLs in terms of national heritage, the official supremacy of French remains constitutionally unchallenged. This means that, along with other public texts, street names are only officially sanctioned in French. The bilingual street signs in central Toulouse recognize this hegemony by consistently displaying French above Occitan. However, they also suggest a covert preference for the RL, where Occitan overshadows French in the meaning associations of street names, and their translation and adaptation on the lower plaques. This challenges the linguistic hierarchy as determined by code preference, as Occitan emerges as a dominant code hidden in plain sight. This article proposes several methods for quantifying Occitan vitality as seen on street signs. Based on current notions of code preference and inter-text translation, it offers some new approaches to classifying and analysing multilingual signs in the Linguistic Landscape.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Occitan language -- France -- Toulouse, Linguistic minorities -- France -- Toulouse, Languages in contact -- France -- Toulouse, Multilingualism -- France -- Toulouse, Street signs -- France -- Toulouse
Journal or Publication Title: International Journal of Multilingualism
Publisher: Routledge
ISSN: 1479-0718
Official Date: 3 April 2017
Dates:
DateEvent
3 April 2017Published
27 October 2015Available
15 September 2015Accepted
Volume: 14
Number: 2
Page Range: pp. 93-108
DOI: 10.1080/14790718.2015.1103244
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 9 November 2017
Date of first compliant Open Access: 1 February 2019

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