Merbouh, Hadjer2024-05-062024-05-062021https://doi.org/10.4000/insaniyat.24923http://dspace.univ-temouchent.edu.dz/handle/123456789/3901The present research aims to approach the Algerian city from the perspective of urban sociolinguistics. This study is based on a discursive conception of the city. The city is a discursive matrix, according to Bulot. Based on a filed survey carried out in Sidi Bel Abbés-city, this reflection examines socio-urban representations, as well as sociolinguistic behaviors (naming urban places), which it considers as forms of socio-spatio-linguistic practices. We then propose a comparison of these different these different putting into words in order to approach the territoriality of Sidi Bel Abbés. A plural city, conflictual, and whose game of identity strategies draws the facets of a social identity under construction. This identity movement can only be understood by combining transdisciplinary knowledge for a contextualized city science.Sidi Bel Abbés, social representations, urban categorization, toponymic uses, identity