Mémoires de l'immigration. Propositions pour une étude sociolinguistique des parlers des jeunes des cités urbaines sensibles de la France contemporaine.

The paper hypothesizes that young people sociolects in sensitive urban cities in contemporary France require a global and multidisciplinary approach to be understood because of their complexity. Based on two linguistic corpora, the article first sets up a general multidisciplinary theoretical framework designed to understand the social environment of the young people in question and then, in a second part, more specifically focused on a sociolinguistic study of the nonstandard varieties of French those young people speak, it attempts to show that those sociolects are emblematic of the social interactions at work in these minority spaces. Both corpora presented are part of an identity construction and of a collective social memory, rooted in sensitive urban cities. They reflect life in segregated cities and in particular the presence of migrant communities. They contribute to the establishment of a process of patrimonialization characterized by otherness, based on a community solidarity and an original form of memory that express a collective experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]