#NewspaperFRBrdshtLeFigaro https://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/societe/jean-marie-rouart-le-pronom-factice-iel-dans-le-robert-ou-le-virus-de-la-deconstruction-de-notre-langue-20211119 the "iel" i.e.
#LiteralNeologismIel
#PhenomnDictionaryPetitRobert
#PleaPronouns furore.
#OrgFRAcademieFrancaiseJeanMarieRouart: "A language like belonging to a country is a common good. To benefit from their protection and the advantages they provide us, we agree to submit to their laws, their rules, their customs, because that is the condition of a collective agreement. This submission does not happen without some form of sacrifice and frustration.
The French language, since it is it that is constantly called into question, must it submit obediently to all individual or category aspirations? The desire to introduce the artificial pronoun 'iel' as the Robert dictionary does, is only the tail of the pressure exerted by the proponents of inclusive writing. It would be wrong to take lightly these folk sprains made to our language, they are the symptoms of a profound illness. We have always known that languages contain essential values: they are not only a means of communication."
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#PleaAWorldOfSimpleStableFixedOperations i.e. this interpretation of meaning contained within language assumes a cultural-hierarchy: that meaning is ascribed to words/language (presumably by experts) to be consumed by the rest of us - effectively ignoring contributions made by
#IRLPhilosopherRolandBarthes et al. such as: "lisable and scriptable, the readerly and writerly texts delineate the distinction between 'classic' and modern works":
http://folksonomy.simonperkins.co.uk/?permalink=45 - that language results from the circumstance of social production e.g. such as: "Sociolinguistics must also confront the problem of heteroglossia, raised in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and developed more recently by scholars such as Kristeva and Barthes, who emphasized the 'intertextuality' of text-speech in context-and who see text production more as an act of bricolage,
'a . . . tissue of past citations. Bits of codes, formulae, rhythmic models,
fragments of social languages, etc. ...' (Barthes 1981:33).'"
[academic source]
#TheoryLinguisticsSocio
#IRLPhilosopherMikhailBakhtin [encyclopædia] [Wikipedia]
#TheoryBricolage
#IRLPhilosopherRolandBarthes
#IRLPhilosopherJuliaKristeva
#TheoryIntertextuality
#TheoryHeteroglossia [academic source]