Organized around March 20, International Day of La Francophonie, the French Language and La Francophonie Week offers lovers of words and the wider public the opportunity to celebrate the French language and to express their attachment to it.
Based in France on a large number of partner towns and villages, adopted in more than 70 countries around the world, the French Language and La Francophonie Week offers more than 1,500 artistic and popular events each year that are opportunities for exchanges and sharing around our language.
The 2014 edition of this operation will call on lexical or syntactic imagination and their ability to develop our language.
Against the words crutches, language tics, ready-made expressions or professional jargon that tend to invade our daily life and trivialize language and thought, it is a matter of highlighting the singularity of language creations, including the most unusual or unexpected, because they are the ones that give life and colour to the French language.
Lexical, semantic, visual or sound inventions will therefore be in the spotlight of this next French Language and Francophonie Week. They will have for theater multiple places of life or work: schools, libraries, bookshops, museums, companies, retirement homes, hospitals, prisons....
Word creation workshops will be numerous and the Weekalready very present on the internet and social networks, will propose a new challenge to Internet users who will be invited to "invent the Word of the Week" from the beginning of February.
The French Language and La Francophonie Week is organized by the Ministry of Culture and Communication, in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of National Education, the French Institute and the Scéren-CNDP. It is supported by the La Poste group, several media outlets: France Télévisions, TV5MONDE, Radio France, RFI, L'Express and several publishers Albin Michel, Balland, Belin, l'École des loisirs, First éditions, Gallimard, Le livre de Poche, Le Robert, Points, etc.
Find all the events in France and abroad on:
www.dismoidixmots.culture.fr
On Facebook: www.facebook.com/dismoidixmots
On twitter: www.twitter.com/dismoidixmots