Language practices and discursive registers Language practices and discursive registers: Question of two frames in sociology of language ; Pratiques langagières et registres discursifs Pratiques langagières et registres discursifs: Interrogation de deux cadres en sociologie du langage
The article seeks to highlight the links, incompatibilities and linkages between two theoretical frameworks whose explicit purpose is a sociology of language: Boutet, Fiala, Simonin-Grumbach (1976) or EBEL, Fiala (1983) propose to consider language practices that constitute a language training; Achard (1995) proposes to talk about discursive registers that constitute a discursive formation. Sharing a refusal of the theory of reflection and considering language or discourse as an act in the world rather than as a representation of it, also sharing a reflection on the relationship between language and social functioning, these two frameworks do not have explicit relations with each other. This involves questioning the various concepts proposed — and in particular those of language practice and discursive registers — in the reports they may maintain before proposing unifying elements. The idea of bringing these two frameworks closer together comes from the two pairs of concepts: language practices/language training — discursive practices/discursive training. The question, however, is whether there are two distinct empirical objects, practices and registers, or two different views on the same empirical object, the language envisaged in its relation to social functioning. In both cases, there are two different empirical objects, but if there are two points of view on language and social, questions arise as to the sociology of language that may emerge from a relationship between the two frames and the two conceptual couples. The article presents the various concepts — by means of definitions and examples — and the relationship between them and training (language or discursive). We then put forward some proposals for linking these two frameworks. Finally, we will see that the question of speech, which may appear only in terminology, becomes crucial. ; International audience The article seeks to highlight the links, incompatibilities, and common ground of two theoretical frameworks, both of which explicitly seek a ...