LE PLURILINGUISME AU QUOTIDIEN : QUAND LE KABYLE, L’ARABE ET LE FRANÇAIS REDÉFINISSENT LE DISCOURS SPONTANÉ
PLURILINGUALISM IN DAILY LIFE: KABYLE, ARABIC, AND FRENCH RESHAPING SPONTANEOUS DISCOURSE

Summary/Abstract: Algeria, and specifically Kabyle society, constitutes a fascinating sociolinguistic environment where Tamazight (first language), Arabic (official language), and French (foreign language) coexist. The core problem of this study is to decipher how Kabyle speakers navigate and combine these three codes in their spontaneous speech. The aim is to understand not only which languages dominate their exchanges, but also how the linguistic blending, known as code-switching, operates, and what meanings emerge from it. The fundamental question is, therefore, how this plurilingual community uses its linguistic richness as a communicative resource. To address this problem, the approach was based on a quantitative and qualitative analysis of an authentic corpus. A sample of 744 sentences was collected from recordings of Kabyle speakers participating in live telephone conversations during Tamazight radio broadcasts (Radio Soummam, Radio Tizi-Ouzou, and Channel 2). This methodological choice guarantees an insight into the speakers' most natural and spontaneous linguistic practices. The approach also required a theoretical clarification of the concepts of bilingualism (in a broad sense, encompassing plurilingualism) and the typologies of code-switching (intraphrasal, interphrasal, extraphrasal) to frame the analysis of the interactions.

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