Linguistique et variation : repères historiques

This paper deals with the historical genesis of the difficult relationships between linguistics and the concept of variation in France from the end of the XIXth century to the triumph of structuralism. The paper shows how scientific discourse took language differences into account, the social basis of its analysis, including the academic actors, their development and careers, and the political representations of these language differences.Bergounioux Gabriel. Linguistique et variation : repères historiques. In: Langages, 26ᵉ année, n°108, 1992. Hétérogénéité et variation : Labov, un bilan, sous la direction de Françoise Gadet. pp. 114-125