Línguas minoritárias entre o simbólico e o político: o caso do crioulo nas Antilhas Francesas

Abstract

Minority languages and the dominant vehicular language coexist almost always in a problematic, if not in an openly conflicting way. Basing our investigation on the case of the French Antilles, we would like to demonstrate how political intervention - institutionalizing Creole by teaching it - could contribute to the reincorporation of the I, of the French-speaking - Creole-speaking subject. The clear consciousness of this splitting of the I experienced by certain Antillean intellectuals, writers an d university professors, led to the creation of the concept of creolity, a real universal chart of the communities’rights to enjoy their linguistic and cultural identity, conceived, however, within the permeation of the Other and the openess towards the Diverse. Furthermore we wonder whether, in the context of globalization, the French linguistic politics, but the European just as well, does not head for the way beaten by the concept of creolity and how far this would not, in return , foster the acceptance of Creole’s institutionalization.