a talk by Isabelle Léglise (SeDyl-CNRS, Paris)
Wednesday March 23, 2016
3pm, Pugh Hall 210
Isabelle Léglise is a senior researcher in Linguistics at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS, Paris) where she heads programmes on Multilingualism, Language Variation and Contact at the SeDyL-CNRS (Structure et Dynamique des Langues). Since 2000, she is engaged in research projects in French Guiana, Suriname and Brazil with a special focus on multilingualism related to migration and educational issues. She published widely on language variation and contact-induced changes, languaging and heterogeneous corpora, discourse analysis and language policy related to education and health. Her last publications include Exploring Language in a Multilingual Context: Variation, Interaction and Ideology in language documentation (2013, Cambridge University Press) with B. Migge, and the co-edition of books such as The Interplay of Variation and Change in Contact Settings (2013, John Benjamins) or In and out of Suriname: language, mobility and identity (2015, Brill).