Trouillot, Lyonel

De la langue française et d’autres choses… - 2020.


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« I am not sure to be able to tell my relationship to French Language. On one hand, I possess nor tools nor distance for protecting me from false witness, a philosopher having taught me not to confuse what we are and do concretely with the idea we make of ourselves. On the other hand, I do not frequent a neutral and timeless object. In social life as in personal life, there is no languages but using them, including in the varied list of these uses the symbolic functions… » So begins Lyonnel Trouillot’s paper.