Katja Ploog | Université d‘Orléans
We will make explicit the concept of mobility as a system of choices available to the individual, and more specifically, in language sciences, by defining discourse mobility as a mapping of singular, heterogeneous resources, elaborated in the process of verbal activity. Our observations are based on the exploitation of the CEM corpus, collected from North African students engaged in a migratory process in the French-speaking area between Maghreb, France, and Quebec. The observation of language mobility of migrant speakers offers the opportunity to put into perspective the spatial trajectory with the mutation of the verbal repertoire through studying the articulation of geographical and symbolic mobilities.
Multi-word-expressions (MWE) are particular constructions in that part of the functional categories are lexically determined and memorized as a whole. As a linguistic heritage endowed with a particular social indexicality, the use of MWE offers migrant students an immediate gain in symbolic mobility. However, we note that the MWE produced by these speakers are frequently characterized by the non-respect of some of the constraints linked to the sedimented constructional format.
In some cases, these pending « disfigurations » can certainly be interpreted in terms of linguistic contact. However, the precise observation of the cases of attraction between constructions (convergence, blending) will lead us to posit that discursive mobility is constraint by the more general characteristics of conceptual orality, and this in an even more acute way for L2 speakers. Indeed, the pressure of constructing on-line accentuates the manifestation of the formulation work, impacting fluidity in particular. In this perspective, the functioning of MWE in the oral productions of plurilingual speakers highlights more general aspects of the « synchronization » process of the two major temporal scales in linguistic dynamics: the discursive instance, represented as a space of speaker mobility, and the historical language, a categorized social space-time, represented as stable.
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