ERIC Number: ED192567
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1980
Reference Count: 0
Identite culturelle et francophonie dans les Ameriques (Cultural Identity and the French Language in the Americas). Series No. B-88.
Baudot, Alain; And Others
These papers, given at five general sessions and fifteen workshops, discuss the relationship between cultural identity and the French language in the Americas, and deal with the following topics: (1) French speech in Canada; (2) anthropology and cultural identity; (3) translation; (4) French in Ontario and New England; (5) sociology; (6) communities in Ontario and Louisiana; (7) the French to be taught in schools; (8) Creole and French in the Antilles; (9) history and nationalism; (10) sociolinguistic questions; (11) the minority writer; (12) popular traditions; (13) theater, the conscience of the people; (14) religion; (15) cinema; (16) the local press; (17) the publishing industry; (18) songs; (19) radio and television; and (20) political power and the survival of French. (AMH)
Descriptors: Creoles, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnicity, Films, French, Higher Education, Language Maintenance, Language Role, Language Variation, Music, News Media, Popular Culture, Radio, Sociolinguistics, Standard Spoken Usage, Television, Theater Arts
Publication Type: Collected Works - Proceedings
Education Level: N/A
Authoring Institution: Laval Univ., Quebec (Quebec). International Center for Research on Bilingualism.
Note: Proceedings of the Colloquim on Cultural Identity and the French Language in the Americas (3rd, Toronto, Ontario, June 2-5, 1976).