For this study, to have a comprehensive qualitative research, we combine different descriptive methods including questionnaires, observation, interviews and case studies. The complementarity of these methods would enrich the information, giving a better response to the research objectives and questions. | HANOI UNIVERSITY Department of post-graduate studies CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LOUVAIN Faculty of Philosophy Arts and Letters THESIS SUMMARY PRACTICES AND REPRESENTATIONS OF FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONY COMMUNITY IN HUE Presented by Nguyen Sinh Vien Under the direction of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Duong Cong Minh Hanoi University In joint supervision with Prof. Dr. Silvia LUCCHINI Catholic University of Louvain For obtaining the degree of Doctor of French Language University of Hanoi and Doctor of Languages and Letters Catholic University of Louvain Field French Language Code 1st reporter Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Dinh Binh University of Languages and International Studies - Vietnam National University Hanoi 2nd reporter Prof. Dr . Costantino Maeder Catholic University of Louvain Hanoi 4 2020 GENERAL INTRODUCTION Problematization The choice of theme and field Located in one of the great crossroads of Asia and hanging on the side of the continent between the Indian subcontinent and the countries of the Far East Vietnam is a country which has been influenced by its neighbors and has served as a springboard to the peoples who after crossing it have spread to the islands of the South Pacific. Until the arrival of the French in the 17th century the imperial capital of the country Hue was of course the most animated scene in national politics in terms of both internal and external relations. It was through this region of the Center that important contacts negotiations and exchanges with the West in general and France in particular took place well before September 1 1858 the date of the French attack in Tourane to impose by the following their hundred- year-old colony in this Southeast Asian country. The relations history of the region and Hue people with the French language and culture dates from this same period going through all of the country s upheavals. Hue was chosen as an example to generalize and specify the situation of French and the Francophony French-speaking community
