Assessing Forty Years of Language Planning on the Vitality of the Francophone and Anglophone Communities of Quebec

Autor/inn/en	Bourhis, Richard Y.; Sioufi, Rana
Titel	Assessing Forty Years of Language Planning on the Vitality of the Francophone and Anglophone Communities of Quebec
Quelle	In: Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 36 (2017) 5, S.627-661 (35 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0167-8507
DOI	10.1515/multi-2017-3048
Schlagwörter	Language Planning; French; Official Languages; Bilingualism; Foreign Countries; Language Minorities; English; Native Language; Language Maintenance; Public Policy; Laws; Work Environment; Family Environment; Language of Instruction; Second Language Learning; English (Second Language); Language Usage; Income; Correlation; Statistical Analysis; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachwechsel; Französisch; Office language; Amtssprache; Bilingualismus; Ausland; Sprachminderheit; English language; Englisch; Sprachpflege; Öffentliche Ordnung; Law; Recht; Arbeitsmilieu; Familienmilieu; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Sprachgebrauch; Einkommen; Korrelation; Statistische Analyse; Kanada
Abstract	This article analyses how language laws favouring French improved the vitality of the Francophone majority relative to the declining Anglophone minority of Quebec. Part one provides a review of Canadian Government efforts to provide federal bilingual services to Francophones and Anglophones across Canada. Using the ethnolinguistic vitality framework, part two reviews key language policies adopted in Quebec designed to increase the status of French relative to English in the province, while part 3 assesses the impact of such laws on the demographic vitality of Francophones and Anglophones. Part 4 analyse how such laws succeeded in reducing the institutional vitality of the Anglophone minority especially their English schools. Pro-French laws did succeed in having 95 % of the Quebec population maintain knowledge of French, keeping 82 % of all its citizens as users of French at home, ensured that 90 % of Francophone employees used French at work, increased to 70 % French/English bilingualism amongst Anglophones and reduced the size of their English school system by 60 %. Nationalist discourse highlights threats to French, given that Quebec Francophones remain a linguistic minority in North America. Can Francophones accept a "paradigm shift" by reframing their position from a "fragile majority" to that of a "dominant majority" in Quebec? (As Provided).
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