Exhibition Linguistic microaggressions
Those insidious remarks that tell us to hide our accent
From 15 to 23 March 2025, the Semaine de la langue française et de la Francophonie celebrates its 30th edition under the theme "The French language and the Francophonie". Have your say! ". To mark the occasion, the Alliance Française de Toulouse is presenting a photographic exhibition on its premises.

" Just by hearing you talk, we know where you come from. "
" You speak good English for a French girl! "

Some of these seemingly banal remarks erode self-esteem. These are "linguistic micro-aggressions" (Razafimandimbimanana and Wacalie, 2019). They lead to silence, self-shaming and the non-transmission of languages, accents and ways of speaking. The target is socially devalued language practices.

With students training to become language teachers at theToulouse-Jean Jaurès UniversityWe were able to bring out these linguistic micro-aggressions, which we then expressed through photographs, thanks to the photographer David Siodos and some have been graffitied with the help of the Toulouse graffiti artist RESO.

This exhibition shows how linguistic micro-aggressions impose a way of speaking and thinking that, even if they don't want to, are felt to be dominant.

Exhibition from 18 to 28 March 2025 in the lounge of the Alliance Française de Toulouse.
Two highlights There will be plenty of opportunities for dialogue and exchange around the event:
Tuesday 25 March at 1.45pm and Friday 28 March at 2pm.

Nathalie Spanghero-Gaillard,
lecturer and researcher at Toulouse-Jean Jaurès University and Vice-President of the Alliance Française de Toulouse

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