Introduction: langue et pouvoir

Language is obviously a power issue; at first political, but it is also symbolic and economic. We wanted to bring to light the problematics that reunite language and power, or better still languages and powers, thematic with which we were dealing during this day that has rallied linguists and literature specialists. In the context in which we were interested, that of Québec and francophone Canada, the link between language and power is so strong that it leads to the creation of neologisms, as Langagement, invented by Lise Gauvin to illustrate that Québecʼ engaged literature (even all Québecʼ literature) goes together with the issue of language. In these conference proceedings, we take as examples many discursive spaces, such as literature, dictionaries and the social discourse, fields where we can identify the strong relationship between language and power. With the contributions of Paola Puccini, Wim Remysen, Cristina Brancaglion, Nadine Vincent, Annette Boudreau, Isabelle Kirouac Massicotte and Marco Modenesi.