Étude comparée de la situation linguistique contemporaine en Israël et au Québec

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Title
Étude comparée de la situation linguistique contemporaine en Israël et au Québec
Abstract
Even though they may appear at first glance as radically different, the author argues that Québécois and Israeli societies nonetheless offer startling similarities when it comes to the centrality of language in the creation of a national identity. He claims that this is also true concerning the language policies put in place by the different Quebec and Israel governments, notably vis-à-vis recent immigrants, cultural minorities, the official use of French and Hebrew, and resistance to the dominance of English. These parallel developments have appeared despite the fact that Hebrew is a reborn language, one of the rare instances in the twentieth century of an idiom revived after is an almost total eclipse, and, he contends, Quebec French an emergent language similar to many other minority languages in Western European countries. The author further argues that these socio-linguistic considerations eventually bring us back to the concept of nation-state as it appeared at the time of the French Revolution, and which found among East-European Jews unique applications that heralded the rise of the Zionist movement and the creation of the state of Israel.
Publication
Recherches sociographiques
Volume
Vol. 49
Issue
no. 2
Pages
261-287
Date
2008
Language
fr
URL
Citation
Anctil, Pierre. “Étude comparée de la situation linguistique contemporaine en Israël et au Québec.” Recherches sociographiques Vol. 49, no. 2 (2008): 261–287. http://www.erudit.org/revue/rs/2008/v49/n2/018915ar.pdf.
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