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This thesis explores the nature and the mechanism of change of language prestige and language attitudes in two neighbouring languages: Occitan and Catalan. These two Romance minority languages show great similarities in their early external history and striking differences in th…

With the discovery in 1912 of a poem about Roland, written in Occitan, a new element was added to the corpus of Rolandian literature. However, the poem was copied on a manuscript dated 1398, making it more than 250 years older than the Digby 23 version of the The Song of Roland.…

Use of the Occitan language in southern France has steadily declined over the past eight centuries, as part of a societal shift toward French. This shift has culminated in the current endangerment of Occitan (UNESCO, Ethnologue). Native speakers are aging rapidly, and according …