Résumés
Abstract
This article examines how census data are processed by statistical offices. It first investigates how the language categories displayed in language statistics are actually elaborated. It then considers the mechanisms by which speakers are assigned to specific language categories. It addresses the language ideologies underlying both these processes and the ways in which a certain view of the world is thus reproduced and reinforced. Finally, it discusses how these practices are linked with the paradigms of statehood and territoriality, and how they have been developed historically in the contexts of colonization and of ethno-national conflict. The paper draws on censuses and statistics in Austria to explore these questions, but the procedures used correspond to those in other countries that follow the guidelines set by the Conference of European Statisticians (2015).
Keywords:
- Census data,
- statistics,
- language ideologies,
- Austria,
- Conference of European Statisticians
Résumé
Cet article propose une réflexion sur les processus adoptés par des agences censitaires dans la génération de données. Dans un premier temps, nous examinons la construction des catégories utilisées dans des données censitaires. Par la suite, nous discutons des mécanismes adoptés pour attribuer des interlocuteurs à des catégories linguistiques spécifiques. L’étude critique de ces deux processus met en lumière la présence d’idéologies sous-jacentes et comment une certaine vision du monde est reproduite et renforcée par les données censitaires. Finalement, une discussion est entreprise sur la manière dont ces processus ont été développés historiquement dans des contextes de colonisation et de conflits ethno-nationaux. Dans ce texte, nous utilisons des données censitaires et statistiques autrichiennes pour approfondir et illustrer notre réflexion, mais nous élargissons notre réflexion pour examiner des procédures d’autres pays qui suivent, comme l’Autriche, les critères établis par la Conference of European Statiscians (2015).
Mots-clés :
- Données censitaires,
- statistiques,
- idéologies langagières,
- Autriche,
- Conference of European Statisticians
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