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Abstract
The article describes the legal configuration of France as a monolingual state and analyzes the specific case of the educational system. A certain accommodation of regional languages as a means of instruction has been accomplished, either in time-parity bilingual sections or in immersion schools. In this respect, the data provided by the literature on the case of Catalan in the historic territory of Roussillon are reviewed. The sources analyzed show two main conclusions: (1) the breakdown of intergenerational transmission, which means that there are practically no dialect speakers and that the standard language can only be learned at school; and (2) the enrollment rate either in time-parity bilingual sections or immersion schools is too low to be able to reverse language shift.

Notre article présente la méthodologie et les résultats de l'Enquesta d'usos lingüístics 2008 (EULP08), une enquête menée par l'Institut catalan de la statistique (Idescat), dont l'objectif principal et de dresser un portrait des usages linguistiques de la population catalane, et qui se base sur une conceptualisation ouverte et dynamique des catégorisations linguistiques. Nous pensons que la méthode de travail privilégiée par les statisticiens catalans peut contribuer à éclairer plusieurs aspects de la démolinguistique canadienne et québécoise.

For centuries, languages have been the backbones of political spaces and creative subjectivities. Languages identify cultures, grant nationalities and define the limits of authority. However, the 21st century is defined by a normal coexistence of several languages in shared spaces. Reality urges us to challenge a monolingual spirit that hinders our social, political, cultural and personal evolution. This volume collects contributions that encourage us to enjoy our postmonolingual condition while critically examining the restraints imposed by monolingualism.