Jean-Michel Eloy
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jean-Michel Eloy is involved.
2026 Langue minorée, petite langue: Que nous apprennent les îles Féroé? The Loss of Primordial Language and the Future of National Languages, Capdevila, Irene and Francesc Feliu (eds.), pp. 208–223 | Chapter
Two hundred years ago, the Faroe Islands, an archipelago under Danish rule located between Iceland and Scotland, spoke Faroese, a language closely related to Icelandic and Norwegian. However, Danish was the only written language, and it was also the only language used in religious services.… read more
2023 Pour une autobiographie linguistique critique: Naissance du désir, naissance de la langue Desired Language: Languages as objects of national ideology, Feliu, Francesc (ed.), pp. 69–95 | Chapter
At first we wonder if a linguistic autobiography is likely to be a valid document. Linguistic autobiography needs the notion of language to be put apart from language practices. Family biography, as well as individual, consists mainly in linguistic ideas about language practices, that’s why true… read more
2019 La complexité dans les relations de langues collatérales: Un locus intégratif pour une (socio)linguistique des langues The Intricacy of Languages, Feliu, Francesc and Olga Fullana (eds.), pp. 23–45 | Chapter
In the matter of language, without talking about multiplicity of languages – let’s leave it for a moment –, there is a tension between unity and multiplicity which still deserves to be analised.
The multiple approaches or facets of that we talk have given rise to the multiple fields of… read more
2007 Collateral languages and digital corpus Corpus-Based Perspectives in Linguistics, Kawaguchi, Yuji, Toshihiro Takagaki, Nobuo Tomimori and Yoichiro Tsuruga (eds.), pp. 115–130 | Article