Linguistic Processes and Communication Strategies for Social Inclusion: Some Experiences in French

In today's society the concept of "forgotten" is the subject of lively debates and is progressively subjected to semantic expansion. In this context where we are questioning about political-economic plans and interventions to be implemented for the benefit of this category, can we advance the proposal of a language in favor of the forgotten? The question, apparently risky, would seem to add further discriminatory elements to the already existing subdivisions between majority and second languages, standard or specialized languages, registers, styles and sociolinguistic variations. The expression, strongly linked to the identification of the identity of "forgotten", coincides according to our objective, with the implementation, both on a local and global level, of those actions that intend, through linguistic-communicative operations, to achieve full social inclusion of the "forgotten". Here we want to address the issue in terms of an overview and analysis of those interventions of a morphematic, syntactic and communicative nature, focusing on three practices in progress, but not exclusive, in the French language: simplification, new formations (inclusive grammar or grammaire neutre), facilitations.