LANGUAGE FLOWS IN URBAN SOCIOLINGUISTICS

Abstract

In the 1920s in linguistics, the need to study the city in a linguistic aspect was recognized, which led to the formation of such a scientific problem as urban sociolinguistics. It is not (or no longer) sufficient to position the city as a single social space whose dominant function would be integration (and its corollary exclusion), a function manifested both by a linguistic heterogeneity that is a constituent of any social community and by a linguistic mobility that the sociolinguist would have the sole task of making homogeneous and locatable for his field of knowledge and his community of research. It must at least be thought of as a discursive matrix founding more or less consciously elicited regularities, experienced or perceived by its various actors; regularities no doubt as much macro-structural (among other things the social organization of space) as more specifically linguistic and linguistic. But this does not take into account the current dynamic, that of urbanization as a more global phenomenon