Editing Joual (section)

== History ==
{{further|History of Quebec French}}
The creation of ''Joual'' can be traced back to the "era of silence", the period from the 1840s to the 1960s and the start of the [[Quiet Revolution]].<ref name="Prins">{{Cite thesis |last=Prins |first=M. |title=The ''Joual'' Effect: A Reflection of Quebec's Urban Working-Class in Michel Tremblay's ''Les Belles-soeurs'' and ''Hosanna'' |date=2012 |degree=MA |publisher=Arizona State University |hdl=2286/R.I.14644 |hdl-access=free |id={{ProQuest|1010987064}}}}</ref> The "era of silence" was marked with stark stigmatization of the common working man. Written documents were not shared with the typical working class man, and the very strict form of French that was used by elites excluded a majority of the population.<ref name="Prins" /> The Quiet Revolution during the 1960s was a time of awakening, in which the Quebec working class demanded more respect in society, including wider use of [[Québécois French|Québécois]] in literature and the performing arts. [[Michel Tremblay]] is an example of a writer who deliberately used ''Joual'' and Québécois to represent the working class populations of Quebec.<ref name="Dargnat">{{Cite book |last=Dargnat |first=Mathilde |title=Michel Tremblay: le "joual" dans Les belles-sœurs |date=2002 |publisher=L'Harmattan |language=fr}}</ref> ''Joual'', a language of the working class, quickly became associated with slang and vulgar language.{{Citation needed|date=March 2019}} Despite its continued use in Canada, there are still ideologies present which place a negative connotation on the use of ''Joual''.{{Citation needed|date=March 2019}}