Comments on the situation of French in a post-colonized Algerian context: itinerary of a language in a space

Abstract

The situation of French in the Algerian area always seems to be a social issue always questioning the policy (legislator), the
specialist (socio-linguist) as much as the speaker (French or other), as it is part of a permanent evolution that that the (in)
formal relationship to this language is still tainted with ambiguity, incomprehension, ambivalence and even contradiction; a proof of this contradiction is the heterogeneity characterizing the status attributed to it and / or assigned to it by some fifty or so years. This contribution, by calling in turn sociological and sociolinguistic insights, seeks to revisit current and old discourses and representations on the passage on this language and more specifically on a young population educated average French, (taken here as a case study), and necessarily engages in a process of comments in order to (re) clarify the status of French among the other languages in an Algerian area, which is turning more and more towards the globalized world of today .