Wendy Ayres-Bennett

Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Nationality British
Academic background
Education
Thesis Vaugelas and the development of the French language: theory and practice (1983)
Academic work
Discipline Linguist
Institutions

Wendy Ayres-Bennett is a British linguist, Professor of French Philology and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, England, and Professorial Fellow in Linguistics at Murray Edwards College.[1][2][3]

She has a BA and MA in Modern Languages from Girton College and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. Her doctoral thesis was "Vaugelas and the development of the French language: theory and practice".[4] After her doctorate she spent a year as a Junior Research Fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford and was then appointed as an assistant lecturer in the French Department at Cambridge. She became a fellow of Murray Edwards College (formerly New Hall) in 2001, and was appointed Professor of French Philology and Linguistics in 2005. In 2009 she joined the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics.[2]

Her main research interests are the history of the French language and the history of linguistic thought.[1] She is also Principal Investigator on the MEITS project: Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies.[5]

In 2004 she was appointed as Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques. The Académie française awarded her a Prix d’Académie in 1997 for her "Remarques de l’Académie française sur le Quinte-Curce de Vaugelas" and a silver medal of the Prix Georges Dumézil in 2013 for "Remarques et observations sur la langue française. Histoire et évolution d’un genre".[6]

Selected publications

  • Vaugelas and the Development of the French Language (1987, MHRA: ISBN 0947623132)
  • A History of the French Language through Texts (1996, Routledge: ISBN 0415100003)
  • Les Remarques de l’Académie Française sur le Quinte-Curce de Vaugelas 1719-1720: contribution à une histoire de la norme grammaticale & rhétorique en France (1996, co-authored with Philippe Caron; Presses de l’Ecole normale supérieure: ISBN 272880219X)
  • Interpreting the History of French. A Festschrift for Peter Rickard on the occasion of his eightieth birthday (2002, co-edited with Rodney Sampson Rodopi: ISBN 9789042015807)
  • Problems and Perspectives: Studies in the Modern French Language (2000, co-authored with Janice Carruthers, Longman Linguistics Library: ISBN 0582293456)
  • Sociolinguistic Variation in Seventeenth-century France: Methodology and Case Studies (2004, Cambridge UP: ISBN 052182088X)
  • The French Language and Questions of Identity (2007, co-edited with Mari C. Jones, Legenda: ISBN 9781904350682)
  • Remarques et observations sur la langue française : histoire et évolution d’un genre (2011, co-authored with Magali Seijido; Éditions Classiques Garnie: ISBN 9782812403439)
  • Bon Usage et variation sociolinguistique: Perspectives diachroniques et traditions nationales, (2013, Co-edited with Magali Seijido: ENS Éditions: ISBN 9782847883893)
  • L’Histoire du français : État des lieux et perspectives (2014, co-edited with Thomas Rainsford; Éditions Classiques Garnier: ISBN 9782812429859)

References

  1. 1 2 "Professor Wendy Ayres - Bennett". Cambridge Language Sciences: Interdisciplinary Research Centre. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Professor Wendy Ayres- Bennett". Murray Edwards College. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  3. ↑ "Professor Wendy Bennett". Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  4. ↑ "Catalogue record for thesis". Copac. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "Project Team". MEITS. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  6. ↑ "Wendy Ayres-Bennett". Académie française. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
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