Signifier and sociolinguistic borders: the cases of the verlan and the vesre The verlan ("back slang" of France) and the vesre (Peru, Argentina, Uruguay) constitute at the same time a significant formal manipulation and a linguistic encoding by syllabic inversion. It represents de facto, in every area, the construction of a voluntary sociolinguistic border based on precise parameters and factors. And the analysis of the signifier, in particular its submorphemics constituents, can be interesting in these two cases to reveal secondary functions such as a better adequacy between meaning and form, to which the respectives standard languages (French and Spanish) cannot aspire.
Signifiant et frontières sociolinguistiques : les cas du verlan et du vesre