Les Rectifications de l’orthographe en Belgique francophone : de la politique linguistique aux pratiques des écoliers et de la presse
(2020) Cahiers de Praxématique — Vol. 74 (2020)
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- (en) This article illustrates various actions related to the reforms of the French orthography carried out in the context of the language policy of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. Since its creation, the Council for the French Language and Language Policy of French-speaking Belgium, with the support of the administration, is engaged in a reflection on a more convenient language, closer to the citizen. Access to the written world, for everyone, has always been one of its major concerns, and this access requires, in particular, a more rational spelling. Therefore the 1990 Rectifications have been the subject of its attention, and the Council has initiated or supported various awareness-raising activities and research on this topic. In this article, we shall mention three of them: an information leaflet on the content of the reform, distributed in all schools; an awareness-raising campaign in the French-speaking Belgian press with the creation of software that converts texts into the new spelling; a study on the practices of pupils at the end of primary school. We will also discuss, through the analysis of a corpus of one million words, the use of rectified spellings by the Belgian press.
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