Historical and Sociolinguistic Approaches to French

Janice Carruthers is Professor of French Linguistics at Queen's University Belfast. She has published widely on the temporal system of Modern French (tense, framing, connectives), the structure of oral narrative, French sociolinguistics, the syntax of Spoken French, corpus methodology, and language policy. She has also published two corpora of oral narrative, one in French and one, with Marianne Vergez-Couret (Poitiers), in Occitan. From 2017-2021 she was the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Priority Area Leadership Fellow for Modern Languages. Her research has been funded by the AHRC, Horizon 2020 (EU), and the British Academy. Mairi McLaughlin is Professor in the Department of French and an Affiliated Member of the Departments of Linguistics and Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in French/Romance Linguistics and in Translation Studies. She has published extensively on language contact in French and Romance, on the language of the media, and on journalistic and literary translation. She has held visiting positions at Balliol College, Oxford and at Paris VIII. Her research has been funded by the UC Humanities Research Institute, the France Berkeley Fund, the Hellman Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. Olivia Walsh is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Nottingham. Her research interests include language ideologies and attitudes in the French language, with a particular interest in standardization and prescriptivism in France and the French-speaking world both in the past and in the current day and, most recently, the French-speaking community in the UK and the USA. Her first book, Linguistic Purism: Language Attitudes in France and Quebec, was published by John Benjamins (2016). Her other work has appeared in publications such as the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development and the Journal of French Language Studies.