This is a published account of glottophobia by Philippe Blanchet, as illustrated in his book Discriminations: combating glottophobia, which focuses on discrimination that is essentially linguistic, "negative discrimination based on the fact that certain linguistic forms (perceived as languages, dialects or uses of languages) used by these people are considered to be incorrect, inferior, bad.

In this article, we address the issue of the media representation of young people of African descent in the French suburbs. We argue that these youths are usually represented by negative clichés. The first stereotype that we evoke is the figure of the oppressor; the second is the one of the oppressed and finally the third one is the so- called success stories from the "ghetto youths”.

Literature can be considered as a document that can describe a space, can testify of a given territory and can represent an environment with its socio-economic realities. This article is a reading of the suburban novel Place des fêtes written by Sami Tchak. From the sociological point of view of the novelist, the banlieue (suburb) is described in terms of marginalized, dystopian environment where the inhabitants, mostly immigrants, get bogged down in total debauchery.

According to a widespread cliché, sport is one of rare openings for young male banlieue residents of postcolonial origin who failed their education. The sociologists Stéphane Beau and Gérard Mauger (2017, p. 11) argue that ‘anti-school culture’ and ‘macho-proletarian attitudes’ contribute to marginalise post-working-class youths on a job market affected by the growing proportion of children in full-time education and the unequal access to quality education. While some banlieue narratives tend to focus on soccer playing characters playing, an increasing number of novelists use boxing not only as a metaphor for the collective experience of peripheral working-class youths trying to control their violence after the 2005 banlieue riots but also a symbol for the writers’ individual performance translating this experience into literary works, or even an aesthetic principle inherent to their creative activity. This paper proposes to examine four novels published between 2006 and 2013 by Mohamed Razane, Rachid Djaïdani, Jean-Eric Boulin and Rachid Santaki in order to explore the figure of the boxer and the double use of boxing, both as a metaphor and an aesthetic principle.

The accent, the intonation, the use of a foreign language is never insignificant in a song and even more so in a film. The aim here is to problematize the so-called "suburb" spoken language in French cinema and to evaluate the sociolinguistic consequences of this language on the populations concerned. To do this, the selected corpus will be analyzed via praxematics, theory according to which the lexical unit, the "praxeme", is defined by the use that the person makes of it in a given situation, according to a given enunciative environment. The method of analysis derived from this theory therefore gives particular attention to the discourse and to the different stages of its elaboration.

For the last few years, a new language emerged in the French society, globalization also helped spread this new language through mass media, internet, movies, music’s, and literature. This phenomenon aroused the interest of sociolinguistics. This language has been subject to a lot of studies, and many sociolinguistics have agreed to name it French contemporary language. In this article, I will try to analyze characteristics in Rachid Djaidani book Boomkœur.

This article aims to analyze the lexical use of young people through the corpus of rap group P.N.L to extract their representations of the suburbs and the use of their references. This critical approach to their texts highlights a presentation of the suburbs from inside. This analysis of literary work on the suburbs and terminology designating the suburbs and its inhabitants: "neighborhoods", "young people from neighborhoods", "the suburban speaking", "the young talker" will be deepened to reveal facets little known, both from a linguistic point of view than purely stylistic (use of verlan, Arabic). Finally, the staging of the suburbs and its representation, through video clips, are also an opportunity to spread the image of the latter internationally. This group and its follow-up in social networks give way to a practice of the French language completely new, tinged with Arabic language. An opportunity to synthesize the neologisms used by the group and their fans who are constantly growing internationally.

The purpose of this paper is to study the women’s representation in the urban literature in order to show how it has evolved. In particular, it will be necessary to analyze the marginal aspects of the female characters in those four novels: Cités à comparaître (Amellal 2006), Béni ou le Paradis Privé (Begag 1986), Le thé au harem d’Archi Ahmed (Charef 1983) and in Dit Violent (Razane 2006). Also, we will be looking at how the female characters respond to this marginality. The aim of this work is also to show how female representation has largely progressed in between the first and the second generation of those immigrant writers.

After the disenchantment of the 1983 March for Equality and Against Racism, the failures of integration in the French way, in the early 90s, all local, national and international ingredients were gathered to foreshadow the great identity crisis that affected young people from the Maghreb suburban immigration in France, with Islam as a banner. The Kelkal case already contained all the premises of the birth of Islamist terrorism. Twenty years later, in November 2015, a wave of attacks in Paris began with Charlie Hebdo.

This article aims to answer the question of why the representations shared by Algerian forumeurs on the French suburbs and its inhabitants are most often depreciative. We use the theory of semantic blocks to understand the argumentative sequences in statements extracted from an Algerian forum. The analyzes show a specific order in the relationships between the semantic blocks that lead to the construction of the often-negative stereotypical representations of this important part of French society.

preface Numerous studies in the humanities and social sciences have been devoted to the segregated areas of France, known as "banlieues", "quartiers" or "cités", and in particular to the linguistic and cultural particularities that are specific to them or that are attributed to them, in particular through the many successful French rap lyrics or so-called "banlieue" literature

Urban sociolinguistic conceive space as a social-discursive product. In this sense, the symbolic power of the words used to talk about certain urban spaces, especially the French suburbs, must be considered. This article presents a terminological analysis aiming to deconstruct some notions designating the French suburbs and their inhabitants. A close link between the representations surrounding these urban spaces and a societal conception is brought up to date.