Abstract:
Summary: This work focuses on one of the residential areas of the city of Mostaganem, the area of the nursery deemed "posh" apprehended in a post-colonial trying to identify through speech raised on it, the micro-social structure that produces the identity but also of otherness. Starting from the premise that linguistic lines emerge from social behavior, we seek to clarify a representation that build some residents of this district, namely, that inhabit the "nursery" implies that one speaks French, that the practice (within the neighborhood), but that one is a real City (Hadri). We undertake a sociolinguistic survey (with interviews and questionnaires) in which we try to understand and through the discourse of those who talk about it, what representations emerge and are built around this area, but also in a second time to reflect on discursive strategies employed by different respondents surveyed through this set of words within a residence. Our interest is whether the area is a spatial or rather a territory of reference and identification for its inhabitants. The study shows that people develop a sense of attachment and identification in relation to their area of residence in which French is engaged in a process of upgrading the living space for some people becomes a territory of reference. Also acknowledge the weight of the representations underpinned by a historical background: the families who are noble and "old" in the district reject those represented "new". These representations highlight and maintain in force category / categorization and prioritization of social discrimination as mestġalmiia, εrubiiya, H dars, etc... It also asks for the success of the urbanization process in Maghreb societies. The area of the nursery, taken from this point of view as (relatively) representative of the city of Mostaganem (and by extension society Maghreb), and re-asked questions in force then, the terms "urban" and "city-dwellers" in that it admits the first and the second does not.
