Un vrai borain

Thiam Ndiassé - « Un vrai borain » : sociolinguistic aspects of spoken French in the "Borinage". "Le Borinage" is a region of the Belgian Hainaut near Mons, corresponding to the Coal Basin and historically marked by a diglossic situation between French and a sub-dialect of Picard, the Borain patois. Surveying a stratified sample allowed us to measure a trace of this historical situation, based on the pronunciation of the local French /r/. The analysis applies the variatio- nist model to this sociolinguistic variable. The known characteristics of the historical use of patois are to be found in the différenciation of the marked variable /r/ (rolled) according to level of instruction, sex and age. In a second section, the results are illuminated by the metalinguistic discourse of the Borains themselves, obtained during the interviews

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