튀니지의 아랍화 정책과 영어, 프랑스어의 공용 현상

Politics of the language in Tunisia and the analysis about the future of the foreign languages

The purpose of this research is to explore the politics of Tunisia about the language and the culture and the position of the French and the English in Tunisia. The linguistic situation of the Tunisia is very complexe. The reasons of this complexity are multiple (historic and geographic nature, civilization, ideology, politics...etc). In fact, the relationship between the political and economic aspects of modernity and the conservative project of cultural identity has always been complicated by issues of market access. And in Tunisia, the principal language of modernity, as well as the dominant economic language, has been, until very recently, French. Collective cultural identity is so identified with language that it is commonplace to refer to those Tunisians for whom French is the principal language of public intellectual exchange and business as the partisans of French (Francisants) and to those for whom such is Arabic as the partisans of Arabic(Arabisants). Although the number of English-language users in Tunisia is slowly increasing, the "quality" of their language is so uneven that it is unclear what "English" culture they represent.