Norme officielle, insecurite linguistique et habiletes metalinguistiques : regards croises a partir de deux corpus d’adolescents d’Abidjan et de Niamey

Many authors have identified a notable linguistic insecurity in Africa, due to the difficulty of accessing standard French. In response to Pinto and El Euch's acceptability test (2015), 60 adolescents from Côte d'Ivoire and Niger gave metalinguistic explanations that were reliable regardless of how far from the prescriptive norm the items proposed to them were and regardless of their own (epi)linguistic performance. Our results validate the linguistic security of the schoolchildren from Côte d'Ivoire and Niger observed when they were asked to reflect in depth on language based on general abstract principles. The schoolchildren felt that they were legitimate judges, which distinguishes them from learners, who do not show any ease in such tasks.