Key topics: Heritage language maintenance and loss in immigrant communities, Bilingualism and multilingualism in francophone contexts, Regional accents and dialects (Québécois, Belgian, Maghrebi, West African French), Cultural assimilation vs. identity preservation, Language policy and the role of the Académie française, Francophonie as a political and cultural identity, Vocabulary: le patrimoine linguistique, l'assimilation culturelle, le bilinguisme, la francophonie, l'identité nationale.
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