Loi sur les langues officielles et vitalité des minorités : mission impossible ou oeuvre inachevée?

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Title
Loi sur les langues officielles et vitalité des minorités : mission impossible ou oeuvre inachevée?
Abstract
The author specifies the conditions necessary for language policies and legislation to have substantial effects on the linguistic vitality of minority groups in Canada. His article has three parts. First, he concludes that the Official Languages Act (OLA) had only minimal effects on the vitality of official language minorities. Secondly, he points out three essential actors that influence linguistic vitality: the community of intimacy, the group’s civil society and the State. The author then underlines two sociolinguistic principles that language legislation and policies would need to apply if its goal is to enhance the vitality/revitalization of minority language groups in Canada. Finally, the author focuses on section VII of the OLA, which, he believes, provides the best chances for establishing a global language management plan based on these principles in order to coordinate a synergy of actions by the three essential actors and to enhance the vitality of the two official minorities.
Publication
Minorités linguistiques et société / Linguistic Minorities and Society
Volume
No. 17
Pages
125-161
Date
2021
Language
fr
URL
Citation
Landry, Rodrigue. “Loi sur les langues officielles et vitalité des minorités : mission impossible ou oeuvre inachevée?” Minorités linguistiques et société / Linguistic Minorities and Society No. 17 (2021): 125–161. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/minling/2021-n17-minling06632/1084703ar.pdf.
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