Professor Anne Judge will be presenting a paper entitled ‘French linguistic policies and the regional languages: an ideological battleground’ for the Centre for Language and Linguistic Studies on Tuesday 14 May, at 5pm, in CoLT3. The talk will focus on the tangled politics of minority language recognition in the French context, and will be of interest to French specialists (especially those taking FR615 – French: Socio-Linguistics) and to non-specialists alike.
Anne Judge is Professor Emeritus at the University of Surrey, where she taught French linguistics for many years. A leading expert on French language and the law, she is the author of Linguistic Policies and the Survival of Regional Languages in France and Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and her A Reference Grammar of Modern French, co-authored with Frank Healey and first published in 1983, remains a ‘Bible’ for French language students.
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