Language, Culture and Identity in Applied Linguistics - Richard Kiely

Language, Culture and Identity in Applied Linguistics - Richard Kiely

Identity in a francophone cultural context: issues of language rights and language use in Canada

Language, Culture and Identity in Applied Linguistics - Richard Kiely

Maeve Conrick [+-]
University College Cork - NUI Cork
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Maeve Conrick is Statutory Lecturer and former Head of the Department of French, UCC, National University of Ireland Cork. She set up the MA in Applied Linguistics programme at UCC, with colleagues in the Department of English. She has published widely in international journals and edited collections in the areas of sociolinguistics (French in Canada, language and gender), applied linguistics (French as a second language) and Canadian Studies. She is author of Womanspeak (Mercier Press, 1999) and co-author with Vera Regan of French in Canada: Language Issues (Peter Lang, 2006, forthcoming).

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Since the introduction of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, provincial provisions on such issues as language rights can be challenged as far as the Canadian Supreme Court. The legal framework in terms of language policy and language planning at federal and provincial levels plays a crucial role in public policy and public debate, with much evidence of tensions resulting from conflicting provisions made at provincial and federal level. This article analyses the outcome of two Supreme Court decisions handed down on 31 March 2005, relating to the controversial issue of access to schooling in English in Quebec, following challenges to restrictions contained in Quebec’s Charte de la langue française (Charter of the French Language), the infamous Bill 101.

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Conrick, Maeve. Identity in a francophone cultural context: issues of language rights and language use in Canada. Language, Culture and Identity in Applied Linguistics. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 31-46 Dec 2006. ISBN 9781845532192. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=25607. Date accessed: 28 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.25607. Dec 2006

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