Regional Walloon Languages (including onomastics) [ LROM2472 ]

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With the help of relevant working tools and making use of  appropriate methodologies, students will be capable of :
- describing the endogenous regional languages of Wallonia (Walloon, Picard, Gaumais, Champenois) from the perspective of their main formal characteristics;
- describing and analysing the linguistic attitudes and representations of speakers of the regional languages of Wallonia;
- analysing the future prospects of these languages and the challenges at stake.

Oral examination + presentation of a personal assignment

Lectures and supervised activities

This course studies the endogenous regional languages of Wallonia with a three-part approach: historical, sociolinguistic and formal.

The course will present the main working tools available and introduce students to the methods of analysis appropriate for the internal and external study of regional languages.

Course material

Michel Francard, Wallon ' Picard ' Gaumais ' Champenois.  Les langues régionales de la Wallonie.  Bruxelles : De Boeck, 2013, 216 p.

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