Els altres parlants i la història social de la llengua
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The social history of language is usually focused on collective actors. This article
aims to reflect both on the speakers as individual subjects of the social history of language
and on the sources which allow an approach to speakers, more precisely immigrants of
the contemporary Catalonia. In very different narratives, immigrants talk about their
territory of origin or economic conditions, and also about languages expressing the most
varied language attitudes. Prejudices or language uses, common topics of these narratives, are fully within the field of social history of the language. Speakers cannot be
always out of disciplines whose narrative axis is the time