US EditionFrance’s Left-Wing Bigwig Wants French Language Renamed to Reflect Its ‘Creole Roots’
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INTERVIEW. Sami Biasoni, a specialist essayist of the French language, decrypts Jean-Luc Melenchon's latest release on creolization.
The leader of La France insoumise (LFI) responded to the criticisms raised by his statement on the French language, calling for the latter to be renamed, arguing that it no longer belonged to France and the French.
During a symposium on the future of the Francophonie held last week at the National Assembly, Mélenchon, by ideology mixed with provocation, plunged a new corner into the look he looks at our country and our common language, French. At the risk of fracture a little more the population... Tribune Libre
Jean-Luc Mélenchon expressed the wish, last week at a colloquium organised within the National Assembly itself, to even rename the "language
Jean-Luc Mélenchon is not in his first shock statement. But this time, it is the French language that is at the heart of the debate. During a symposium on the future of the French language, held last week at the National Assembly, the leader of La France Insoumise proposed a symbolic redesign: to rename the French language in "Creole language". An idea that contrasts with the usual discourses on national identity. Faced with an audience composed…
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