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Peytaví Deixona, Joan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This article concerns Northern Catalonia, the part of the Catalan-speaking area that today is in France. A Catalan-speaking region until the first half of the twentieth century, the effects of Frenchification -- the acceptance of the French political and economic project in the contemporary era -- and the multiple demographic changes of the…
Descriptors: French, Romance Languages, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Maintenance
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Vajta, Katharina – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
This study examines how language choice in epitaphs in Alsatian cemeteries mirrors language shifts in Alsace, a region in Eastern France that changed nationalities between France and Germany four times between 1870 and 1945. Language choice on tombstones was expected to be made according to the language of the ruling power, but the results show…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Usage, French, German