I neoparlanti del corso: una realtà (quasi) impensata

Abstract

Since the 1970s, the Corsican language has undergone a process of linguistic revitalisation. While the use of the language has declined in the private sphere, it has gained ground in the public sphere, particularly through schools, the media, arts and culture, and political discourse. Today, the language claim is largely consensual and transpartisan: social bilingualism is clearly identified as a goal and manifests itself concretely with the emergence of new speakers. Despite being at the centre of language policies and action-research, new speakers are nevertheless a largely taboo or even unthought-of category. This article examines language planning documents, sociolinguistic surveys, school discourses and scholarly publications to analyse how the issue of new speakers has been addressed in recent decades.

DOI: 10.4424/lam142025-8