Minorities in the trap of iconography

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The author is "Professeur des Universités" of Spanish language and literature , Perpignan University, France, specialized in sociolinguistics, especially in relationships between state and minority languages, linguistic policies, and bilingualism in contemporary literature. His main publications are: Le parler "melandjao" des immigrés espagnols en Roussillon (Perpignan, Presses Universitaires de Perpignan, 1996); Conflits de langues, conflits de groupes (Paris, L'Harmattan, 1996); Des écritures 'bilingues'; Sociolinguistique et littérature (Paris, L'Harmattan, 2001); editor with Henri Boyer, L'Espagne et ses langues. Un modèle écolinguistique? (Paris, L'Harmattan, 2002); editor, Ecrire en situation bilingue (Perpignan, Presses Universitaires de Perpignan, 2004).