Abstract EN:

Linguistic and cultural inter-generational transmission is particularly present in the Vietnamese families who have emigrated to Nice, Lyons and Paris in France. Therefore, transmission has been the subject of an investigation where the investigator also belongs to the group Transmission was studied by means of recorded informal conversations. What was privileged was the communicative skill of the speaker. The analysis of conversations shows that on the qualitative level, the Vietnamese language is altered in its contacts with the French language. This results in loanwords, loan translation and code-switching, which in turn create new linguistic forms, structures and features. An effective transmission of the Vietnamese language to the younger generations was observed and assessed. It namely appeared under teknonymy. This revealed the existence of a strategy to maintain practices and values that are at the root of the Vietnamese identity. Transmission resurfaces in speeches that take into account combinations of both systems, at the linguistic and the cultural levels. Last, but not least, restructuring due to contact between the languages and linguistic practices that are contextualised by and in a “grammar-of-interaction” generate a bilingual, French-Vietnamese speech. This will be defined by such notions as repertoire-in-progress and layering.