Negotiating language resources in border areas : production and discourse of cross-border workers in Greater Geneva

Livre Chapitre de livre Negotiating language resources in border areas : production and discourse of cross-border workers in Greater Geneva eng 2025-03-15 2025-03-15 author Cote Marie-Hélène 947220 author Prikhodkine Alexei 714930 Ecole de langue et civilisation françaises (ELCFR) author Racine Isabelle 0009-0004-3977-756X 134939 Ecole de langue et civilisation françaises (ELCFR) 69-98 10.1515/9783111034225-003 9783111034034 https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111034225-003/html This chapter presents a study carried out in the conurbation of Greater Geneva, which aimed to examine how French language resources are used to ne-gotiate the national border between French-speaking Switzerland and France. Four groups of speakers around Geneva were recorded, following the PFC proto-col (Durand et al., 2002): two with non-mobile speakers (12 in Switzerland, 13 in France) and two with mobile speakers (9 Swiss, 12 French), who live in neighbour-ing France but work or study in Geneva. Guided interviews were conducted, tar-geting the participants’ mobility experiences and linguistic representations in the context of the Swiss-French border. Production data were examined, focusing on one pronunciation variable, word-final /e/, produced with lengthening and possi-bly diphthongisation in Switzerland. Perceptual and acoustic data were obtained, which confirmed that lengthening and diphthongisation are used exclusively by the Swiss participants, without noticeable effects of mobility, but with significant individual differences. Three different profiles for the Swiss mobile speakers emerged from a comparison of production and discourse, which differ on the rep-resentations of the border in terms of its absence/presence and how participants identify with respect to it. These results highlight the need to combine production data and representations in the study of language dynamics (Swiss) French Geneva Cross-border workers Vowel realisation Language representations Dewey 440 De Gruyter Berlin 92 Ecole de langue et de civilisation françaises 3J false Language, borders and bordering practices = Lenguaje, fronteras y practices de fronterización Bürki, Y. & Nalleli García Agüero, A. 002fdc80-80a6-4b9e-a322-2521528f2274 Book chapter (Published version) Public Pages_de_Chapitre_de_livre_from_unp.pdf 482847 application/pdf CC BY-NC-ND-4.0 c57dd46a1ab952b04cd3647e946ded7d1f61365f9d636350d71b6fb98b518197 openAccess Faculté des lettres / Ecole de langue et de civilisation françaises

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