Regional Walloon Languages (including onomastics)
[ LROM2472 ]
5.0 crédits ECTS
15.0 h
Ce cours bisannuel est dispensé en 2011-2012, 2013-2014, ...
| Language |
French
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Place
of the course |
Louvain-la-Neuve
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| Main themes |
Problems and methods of dialectology : the place of the discipline in the different branches of linguistics and its relationship with linguistic geography, sociolinguistics, philology, etc. ;
- the investigation into the ground (various methods, etc.) and the transcription of oral data;
- the documentation: the main tools and books, atlases, monographs, etc. The segmentation of the Oïl territory : the main dialects and languages and, more especially, Romance dialects of Wallonia, in current use ;
- the classification of dialects and the determination of the dialects frontiers.
General topics on the dialects of Wallonia: characteristics, vitality, etc.
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| Aims |
Introduction to methods of dialectological research and more specifically to the scientific study of dialects of Wallonia, within the Oil language territory. Presentation of the main characteristics of Walloon dialects.
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| Content |
The course is devoted to the regional languages in Wallonia, and it adopts a triple approach : historical, sociolinguistic and formal.
Historical : from the segmentation of the Oïl language territory till today (contribution of the dialectology and the linguistic geography).
Sociolinguistic : linguistic practices and behaviours of Walloon speakers; representations of the regional languages in Wallonia; issues (namely to the survival of these languages).
Formal : description of the most pre-eminent features (phonetical, phonological, morphological, syntactical, lexical) of the regional languages today.
The course will also present the main available research tools and will introduce to the field work methodology.
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| Other information |
Pre-necessary: Complementary and manual readings
Limés I. Les langues régionales romanes en Wallonie. Bruxelles, Traditions et parlers populaires Bruxelles-Wallonie, 1992.
Michel Francard, Langues d'oïl en Wallonie. Bruxelles : Bureau européen pour les langues moins répandues, 2000
Evaluation : Oral examination.
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Cycle et année
d'étude |
> Master [120] in Linguistics
> Master [120] in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : General
> Master [120] in Ancient and Modern Languages and Literatures
> Master [60] in Ancient and Modern Languages and Literatures
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Faculty or entity
in charge |
> ROM
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