Dynamiques sociolinguistiques du français au Sénégal : analyse lexico-sémantique du langage des élèves de l’enseignement moyen-secondair

Abstract. Being the official language of Senegal and the means of teaching of the country’s educational system, French is one of the languages chosen by the students during their daily interactions in schools and during courses. Yet, it represents their second or third language. Learnt at school (but sometimes also in the streets or at home: through the media) after the acquisition of one or several languages, French is a language whose practices by students show observable lexical-semantic specificities. Those specificities are likely a function of the student’s sociolinguistic profile, of his representation of that language, and his communication habits. The goal of this study is to analyze and interpret spoken French of that social stratum by laying the stress on the lexical-semantic dimension of that language. This work in internal Sociolinguistics falls within the theoretical framework of sociolinguistic variation in a multicultural and multilingual context. Mots-clés : Français parlé, Sénégal, élèves, analyse lexico-sémantique, dynamiques sociolinguistiques. Keywords: Spoken French, Senegal, students, lexical-semantic analysis, sociolinguistic dynamics.