واقع اللغة الأم في ظل التعدد اللغوي

Abstract EN

Today, our society witnesses a multi-lingual situation, which is now called multilingualism.

As such, group of language users alternate between two, or perhaps more, linguistic patterns.

This rotation stands in contrast to monolingualism, in that it has an impact on the mother tongue.

This impact results from changes caused by foreign languages patterns.

With this multilingualism, we are not equipped enough to centralize our language owing to the dominance of other linguistic practices in many vital, social and cognitive sectors that control electronic and technical means.

In order for the mother language to ensure its ability and continuity, it must have a balanced situation based on the nationalism spirit in preserving the cultural constants without arbitrary exclusion of multilingualism.

In this study, we will try to show the status of the mother tongue among other foreign languages in this era when the language of the powerful was imposed.

The point is to see whether it is still employed or is it a marginalized with no value or role.

This is a field study conducted on some families in the Tizi-Ouzou region to demonstrate the extent to which the mother tongue and foreign languages are used.

The study also attempts to discover what the dominant language is in daily use through recording the voice of ordinary letters and daily conversations that take place among the members of the targeted families.

We have selected this type of discourse because, in such an interaction, one speaks spontaneously.

To reach more reliable results we have focus on on educated families who spoke in many languages.