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Résumé
Cet article vise principalement à décrire la situation de la langue portugaise et sa présence au sein de la communauté portugaise de Sydney (Australie). Cette contribution vise à comparer la situation de Sydney avec deux autres quartiers portugais : Montréal (Canada) et Bridgeport (États-Unis). Nous avons observé la présence de la langue, à la fois dans les paysages linguistiques de ces quartiers ethniques, ainsi qu’à travers les pratiques, langagières et autres, et les discours. Notre recherche s’inscrit dans une étude sociolinguistique comparative plus vaste sur les pratiques langagières en portugais. Des recherches de terrain ont été menées dans les trois villes de 2011 à 2021. Notre approche est à la fois qualitative, ethnographique et cyber-ethnographique depuis quelques années. Des questionnaires et des entretiens semi-directifs ont été collectés auprès de descendants de migrants portugais d’âge, de sexe, de statut socio-économique, de profession et de niveau d’études différents. Grâce aux observations et à la description ethnographique, il nous a également été possible d’analyser le rôle fondamental de la langue portugaise en tant que langue d’origine, et son statut à travers l’analyse d’idéologies et de représentations. De plus, afin de mieux comprendre comment les pratiques langagières sont une manifestation de l’appartenance à un groupe, nous avons observé le rôle des paysages linguistiques en tant que marque de l’identité communautaire.
Mots-clés :
- Communauté portugaise,
- Sydney,
- paysage linguistique,
- langue d’origine,
- identité
Abstract
This contribution aims to describe the situation of the Portuguese language and its presence within the Portuguese community of Sydney (Australia). It focuses on the comparison between this community and two other Portuguese communities: Montreal (Canada) and Bridgeport (United States of America). We have observed how language is present both in the linguistic landscapes of the ethnic neighbourhoods of the three cities as well as through language practices and discourses. Our research is part of a larger comparative sociolinguistic study on language practices in Portuguese. Fieldworks were conducted in the three cities from 2011 to 2021. Our approach is both qualitative and ethnographic, although cyberethnography has been considered for the last two years. Questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were also collected from descendants of Portuguese migrants of different age, sex, socio-economic status, profession and level of education. Thanks to the observations and the ethnographic description, it was also possible to analyse the fundamental role of the Portuguese language, as Heritage language, and its status through the analysis of ideologies and representations. Our analysis aims to better understand how language practices are a manifestation of belonging to a community but also the role of linguistic landscapes as a marker of community identity.
Keywords:
- Portuguese community,
- Sydney,
- linguistic landscape,
- heritage language,
- identity
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