Principal Investigator: Raymond Mougeon

Description:

As a sole author or co-author Raymond Mougeon has carried several studies on the institutional, demographic and sociological aspects of French language maintenance in Ontario and Anglophone Canada. Such studies provide a picture of the progress made in relation to (French-medium schooling, French-language governmental services, etc.) but also of the challenges that confront Francophones (lowering birth rate, rising linguistic exogamy, increasing minoritization in many localities, etc.).

Publications:

Beniak, É., Mougeon, R. & Valois, D. 1985. Contact des langues et changement linguistique: étude sociolinguistique du français parlé à Welland. Quebec City: International Centre for Research on Bilingualism.

Mougeon, R. 1977. French language replacement and mixed marriages: The case of the francophone minority of Welland, Ontario. Anthropological Linguistics, 19, (8), 368-377.

Mougeon, R. 1980. Le maintien du français en Ontario. In A. Baudot, J.-C. Jaubert & R. Sabourin (eds). Identité culturelle et francophonie dans les Amériques (III). Quebec City: International Centre for Research on Bilingualism, 41-50.

Mougeon, R. 1989. Impact de l'essor de l'immersion sur l'éducation et le devenir des Franco-Ontariens. Revue du Nouvel Ontario. no. 9, pp. 31-50.

Mougeon, R. 1994. Le français au Québec et en Ontario, Langage et société, vol. 67, 37-52.

Mougeon, R. 1998. French outside New Brunswick and Quebec. In J. Edwards (ed.), Language in Canada, Cambridge University Press, pp. 226-251.

Mougeon, R. 2013. Maintien et évolution du français dans les provinces du Canada anglophone. Dans S. Mufwene & C. Vigouroux (dirs). Colonisation, globalisation et vitalité du français, Paris: Odile Jacob.

Mougeon, R., Brent-Palmer, C., Bélanger, M. & Cichocki, W. 1982. Le français en situation minoritaire: fréquence d'emploi et maîtrise du français parlé par les élèves des écoles de langue française dans des communautés franco-ontariennes. Quebec City: International Centre for Research on Bilingualism.

Mougeon, R. & Beniak, É. 1987. Should the French Canadian minorities open their schools to the children of the Anglophone majority? In J. Jorgensen et al. (eds.), Copenhagen Studies in Bilingualism. Vol. 5: Bilingualism in society and school . Multilingual Matters, pp. 167-177.

Mougeon , R. & Beniak, É. 1991.Socio-historical background and French-language spread. Dans Mougeon , R. & Beniak, É. 1991. Linguistic consequences of language contact and restriction: The case of French in Ontario. Oxford: Oxford University Press,18-67.

Mougeon, R. & É. Beniak. 1994. Bilingualism, language shift, and institutional support for French: The case of the Franco-Ontarians, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, vol. 105/106, 99-126.

Mougeon, R. & Heller, M. 1986. The social and historical context of minority French language school in Ontario, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. vol. 7, no. 2 and 3, pp. 199-228.

Mougeon, R. & Hébrard, P. 1975. Aspects de l'assimilation linguistique dans une communauté francophone de l'Ontario. Working Papers on Bilingualism, 5, 1-38.

Mougeon, R. & Hébrard, P. 1975. Les chances de maintien du français en Ontario. Courrier Sud, 3, (9).