page_title: Blason populaire
section_title: Blasons populaires in Wallonia and Luxembourg
hierarchical_section_title: Blason populaire / Blasons populaires in Wallonia and Luxembourg
caption_attribution_description: English: Road sign to a village common house, named to the nickname of the inhabitants. Walon: Plake eviè li såle do viyaedje di Ver, lomé sorlon li såvadje no des djins did la les Makès, riscrît a môde francesse avou l' cawete -et.
context_page_description: Blason populaire is an umbrella genre in the field of folkloristics used to designate any item of any genre which makes use of stereotypes, usually, but not always, negative stereotypes, of a particular group."These stereotypes are manifested in a wide array of folkloric genres, including proverbs, other traditional sayings, nicknames, jokes, songs, rhymes, and football chants. All share a common function in that they are invoked to highlight positive aspects of the in-group by explicit auto-stereotyping or, alternatively, to identify the negative characteristics of out-groups. The explicit positive stereotyping of an in-group may often implicitly suggest negative characteristics of a rival out-group."
  In blasons populaires nations are homogeneous and have national characteristics.
  Items such as ethnic jokes or blonde jokes are very common examples of blason populaire.
context_section_description: In Wallonia (Belgium) and Luxembourg, the concept of "blason populaire" refers to a demonym-like nickname of the inhabitants of a village or a city.
  Blasons populaire come from the traditional languages (Walloon, Luxembourgish). They are never translated in French, as opposed to the demonyms which exist in French and in Walloon, often in two different constructions.
  Some, which have lost their pejorative meaning, are now used to name restaurants, theater groups, communal houses, etc. They are also used in pseudonyms of writers in Walloon.
caption: Nickname "Les maquets"
   (French rewriting of the walloon name "maké", stunned) to call a communal house in Ver (Custinne)
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