De Budyšin (Allemagne, RDA, RFA) à Serbin (USA). Vers une glottopolitique « engagée » de l’espace sorabe ?

• Published in: Glottopol Vol. 36; no. 36
• Main Author: Yèche, Hélène
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; French
• Published: Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre 01.01.2022
• Subjects: cultural revival; glottopolical perspective; language; minority language; revitalization; space
• ISSN: 1769-7425; 1769-7425
• DOI: 10.4000/glottopol.1324

While revitalization processes are based primarily on language, they nevertheless allow the group to express a “particular reading of the world”, as James Costa has shown (2018). The narrative, produced collectively as part of the linguistic or cultural revitalization enterprise, aims at a new interpretation of the world and society, aims to redefine the relationship between minority and dominant culture, in short, a repositioning that can become in certain cases a strong will to reconquer the geographical space by means of the language, an enterprise that can be described as “glottopolitical”.The present study thus proposes to question the particular link that unites a minority language to a territory - or the reverse. From Budyšin (Germany, GDR, FRG) to Serbin (USA), from old Europe to the shores of the New World, from European to North American territory, we will explore the different forms that the Sorbian geocultural space takes, by successively examining the notions of extension, variation and finally (re)construction of the cultural and linguistic identity of a minority.