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Rasprave: Časopis Instituta za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, Vol. 43 No. 2, 2017.

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A Storm in a Teacup? The Académie française, Language Policy and Normativity

Adam Renwick orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-4285-005X ; Centre de recherche en terminologie et traduction (CRTT), Université de Lyon

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Abstract

When the Académie française’s position on spelling was misconstrued in early 2016, a public debate arose about spelling and language. This paper explains the Académie’s views on spelling, which are in fact descriptive, before detailing the Académie’s other roles, notably the creation of its own normative dictionary and its involvement in the development of French technical vocabulary. This paper thus contrasts the different roles the Académie plays and describes the different attitudes the Académie is thus able to adopt.

Keywords

spelling; French language; terminology; language policy; normativity

Hrčak ID:

191102

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/191102

Publication date:

19.12.2017.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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