Le bilinguisme officiel au Nouveau- Brunswick : surface paisible, fond polémique
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2013
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Polskie Towarzystwo Badań Kanadyjskich
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Claiming to represent a Canadian biligualism at a smaller scale, the
province of New Brunswick was declared officially bilingual in 1969. The New
Brunswick model remains unique within the Canadian confederation and is pointed to
with pride as a reflection of harmonious relations between the two Canadian official
language communities, and as an opportunity of economic development. Despite this
status of exemplar of Canadian bilingualism, the daily management of official
bilingualism and particularly the question of its cost are periodically challenged in the
province. In the Fall of 2012, when a public figure denounced the cost of
bilingualism, Francophone leaders reacted. This mediatic event led some to plead for
a return to English monolingualism. Around one hundred comments posted on the
discussion forums of CBC News illustrated this language ideological debate and form
the basis for our argumentative discourse analysis. This corpus allows us to illustrate
the persistent inter-communtiy tensions often overshadowed in official discourses.
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TransCanadiana, 6.2013, pp. 25-42