Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Biographic Data
| ID | 554390 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wendy Ayres-Bennett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wendy |
| FAMILY NAME | Ayres-Bennett |
| SIGNATURE | AYRES-BENNETT W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Oxford Handbook of the French Language
This volume provides the first comprehensive reference work in English on the French language in all its facets. It offers a wide-ranging approach to the rich, varied, and exciting research across multiple subfields, with seven broad thematic sections covering the structures of French; the history of French; axes of variation; French around the world; French in contact with other languages; second language acquisition; and French in literature, c…
Multilingualism and Identity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
The analysis and understanding of multilingualism, and its relationship to identity in the face of globalization, migration and the increasing dominance of English as a lingua franca, makes it a complex and challenging problem that requires insights from a range of disciplines. With reference to a variety of languages and contexts, this book offers fascinating insights into multilingual identity from a team of world-renowned scholars, working fro…
Multilingualism and Identity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
The Cambridge Handbook of Language Standardization
Language standardization is the process by which conventional forms of a language are established and maintained. Bringing together internationally renowned experts, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of standardization, norms and standard languages. Chapters are grouped into five thematic areas: models and theories of standardization, questions of authority and legitimacy, literacy and education, borders and boundaries, and standard…
Sociolinguistique historique et suivi de l’évolution des langues: Sources, types et genres de textes
Women in the History of Linguistics
Codification and prescription in linguistic standardisation: Myths and models
This paper aims to contribute to the field of “comparative standardology”, arguing that it is only through the adoption of a comparative perspective that certain myths about the process of standardisation can be dispelled. In particular, I will consider what light recent work on English and German sheds on the case of French, typically portrayed as the European language which has been most subjected to prescriptive influences. Focussing on the in…
Prescriptivism in a Comparative Perspective: The Case of France and England
L’extension du Grand Corpus des grammaires françaises, des remarques et des traités sur la langue: Questions théoriques et méthodologiques
Cet article envisage l’extension du Grand Corpus des grammaires françaises, des remarques et des traités sur la langue (2011) à un ensemble plus vaste de textes couvrant les XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Après une présentation du corpus existant, il évoque les principes mis en œuvre pour sa continuation, en analysant notamment les critères de sélection pour les choix des textes, sans oublier les difficultés que l’entreprise soulève (découpage temporel…
Bon usage et variation sociolinguistique: Perspectives diachroniques et traditions nationales
La notion de « bon usage » évoque immédiatement dans le contexte de la France les noms de Claude Favre de Vaugelas (1585-1650) et de Maurice Grevisse (1895-1980), deux colosses de la codification du français moderne qui date du xviie siècle. Ce concept, aujourd’hui chargé de connotations archaïques et élitistes, est souvent perçu comme un ensemble de prescriptions normatives correspondant à un certain modèle socioculturel. Le passage de I’« usage…
Compilations, recueils, collections
‘Compiler’ a mauvaise réputation en français moderne, et les ‘compilations’ sont bien souvent considérées comme la reprise du bien d'autrui, sans intervention personnelle ni intelligence. En témoignerait, entre mille autres et au hasard, Montesquieu: ‘De tous les Auteurs, il n'y en a point que je meprise plus que les Compilateurs.’1 Les dictionnaires de Cotgrave (1611), Richelet (1680) et Furetière (1690) offraient une définition neutre du terme …
Les Compilations raisonnées des Remarques et Observations sur la langue française
Dans cet article nous essaierons de montrer que les compilations raisonnées des Remarques et Observations sur la langue française ont profondément modifié et influencé notre perception moderne des textes originaux. Les remarques de Vaugelas et de ses principaux successeurs ont une dimension normative bien connue mais également une dimension sociolinguistique importante: elles comportent de nombreux témoignages sur l'évolution de l'usage, la varia…
Reading theRemarqueurs: Changing perceptions of ‘classic’ texts
It is commonly stated that metalinguistic texts reflect the historical, social and intellectual context in which they are produced. In this article the author examines how later readings of 'classic' texts can both reflect the changing concerns of the time and colour subsequent readings of those texts. The case-study provided is the work of the three great 17th-century Frenchremarqueursor authors of volumes of observations on the French language …
Grammaire française (1586): Texte latin original
Antoine Cauchie (Caucius): Traduction et notes de Colette Demaizière. Paris, Champion, 2001. 544 pp. Hb €85.35. The series ‘Traités sur la langue française’ in the collection ‘Textes de la Renaissance’ under the general editorship of Colette Demaizière has established itself as an essential reference collection for anyone interested in the history of linguistic thought in sixteenth-century France. Demaizière is well known for her authoritative st…
A History of the French Language through Texts
Le rôle des femmes dans l'élaboration des idées linguistiques au XVIIe siècle en France
This paper considers the few examples of works on language either by women or for women in France in the seventeenth century. It will argue that, in spite of the paucity and relative unimportance of these works, women nevertheless had an important role to play in the elaboration of the linguistic thought of the age
Negative Evidence: Or Another Look at the Non-Use of Negative ne in Seventeenth-Century French
Journal Article NEGATIVE EVIDENCE: OR ANOTHER LOOK AT THE NON-USE OF NEGATIVE NE IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH Get access WENDY AYRES-BENNETT WENDY AYRES-BENNETT QUEEN'S COLLEGECAMBRIDGE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XLVIII, Issue 1, January 1994, Pages 63–85, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XLVIII.1.63 Published: 01 January 1994
Variation and Change in French: Essays Presented to Rebecca Posner on the Occasion of Her Sixtieth Birthday
Reading theRemarqueurs: Changing perceptions of ‘classic’ texts
It is commonly stated that metalinguistic texts reflect the historical, social and intellectual context in which they are produced. In this article the author examines how later readings of 'classic' texts can both reflect the changing concerns of the time and colour subsequent readings of those texts. The case-study provided is the work of the three great 17th-century Frenchremarqueursor authors of volumes of observations on the French language …
Negative Evidence: Or Another Look at the Non-Use of Negative ne in Seventeenth-Century French
Journal Article NEGATIVE EVIDENCE: OR ANOTHER LOOK AT THE NON-USE OF NEGATIVE NE IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH Get access WENDY AYRES-BENNETT WENDY AYRES-BENNETT QUEEN'S COLLEGECAMBRIDGE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XLVIII, Issue 1, January 1994, Pages 63–85, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XLVIII.1.63 Published: 01 January 1994
Les Compilations raisonnées des Remarques et Observations sur la langue française
Dans cet article nous essaierons de montrer que les compilations raisonnées des Remarques et Observations sur la langue française ont profondément modifié et influencé notre perception moderne des textes originaux. Les remarques de Vaugelas et de ses principaux successeurs ont une dimension normative bien connue mais également une dimension sociolinguistique importante: elles comportent de nombreux témoignages sur l'évolution de l'usage, la varia…
Variation and Change in French: Essays Presented to Rebecca Posner on the Occasion of Her Sixtieth Birthday
Le rôle des femmes dans l'élaboration des idées linguistiques au XVIIe siècle en France
This paper considers the few examples of works on language either by women or for women in France in the seventeenth century. It will argue that, in spite of the paucity and relative unimportance of these works, women nevertheless had an important role to play in the elaboration of the linguistic thought of the age
Negative Evidence: Or Another Look at the Non-Use of Negative ne in Seventeenth-Century French
Journal Article NEGATIVE EVIDENCE: OR ANOTHER LOOK AT THE NON-USE OF NEGATIVE NE IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH Get access WENDY AYRES-BENNETT WENDY AYRES-BENNETT QUEEN'S COLLEGECAMBRIDGE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XLVIII, Issue 1, January 1994, Pages 63–85, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XLVIII.1.63 Published: 01 January 1994
A History of the French Language through Texts
Grammaire française (1586): Texte latin original
Antoine Cauchie (Caucius): Traduction et notes de Colette Demaizière. Paris, Champion, 2001. 544 pp. Hb €85.35. The series ‘Traités sur la langue française’ in the collection ‘Textes de la Renaissance’ under the general editorship of Colette Demaizière has established itself as an essential reference collection for anyone interested in the history of linguistic thought in sixteenth-century France. Demaizière is well known for her authoritative st…
Reading theRemarqueurs: Changing perceptions of ‘classic’ texts
It is commonly stated that metalinguistic texts reflect the historical, social and intellectual context in which they are produced. In this article the author examines how later readings of 'classic' texts can both reflect the changing concerns of the time and colour subsequent readings of those texts. The case-study provided is the work of the three great 17th-century Frenchremarqueursor authors of volumes of observations on the French language …
Compilations, recueils, collections
‘Compiler’ a mauvaise réputation en français moderne, et les ‘compilations’ sont bien souvent considérées comme la reprise du bien d'autrui, sans intervention personnelle ni intelligence. En témoignerait, entre mille autres et au hasard, Montesquieu: ‘De tous les Auteurs, il n'y en a point que je meprise plus que les Compilateurs.’1 Les dictionnaires de Cotgrave (1611), Richelet (1680) et Furetière (1690) offraient une définition neutre du terme …
Les Compilations raisonnées des Remarques et Observations sur la langue française
Dans cet article nous essaierons de montrer que les compilations raisonnées des Remarques et Observations sur la langue française ont profondément modifié et influencé notre perception moderne des textes originaux. Les remarques de Vaugelas et de ses principaux successeurs ont une dimension normative bien connue mais également une dimension sociolinguistique importante: elles comportent de nombreux témoignages sur l'évolution de l'usage, la varia…
Bon usage et variation sociolinguistique: Perspectives diachroniques et traditions nationales
La notion de « bon usage » évoque immédiatement dans le contexte de la France les noms de Claude Favre de Vaugelas (1585-1650) et de Maurice Grevisse (1895-1980), deux colosses de la codification du français moderne qui date du xviie siècle. Ce concept, aujourd’hui chargé de connotations archaïques et élitistes, est souvent perçu comme un ensemble de prescriptions normatives correspondant à un certain modèle socioculturel. Le passage de I’« usage…
Codification and prescription in linguistic standardisation: Myths and models
This paper aims to contribute to the field of “comparative standardology”, arguing that it is only through the adoption of a comparative perspective that certain myths about the process of standardisation can be dispelled. In particular, I will consider what light recent work on English and German sheds on the case of French, typically portrayed as the European language which has been most subjected to prescriptive influences. Focussing on the in…
Prescriptivism in a Comparative Perspective: The Case of France and England
L’extension du Grand Corpus des grammaires françaises, des remarques et des traités sur la langue: Questions théoriques et méthodologiques
Cet article envisage l’extension du Grand Corpus des grammaires françaises, des remarques et des traités sur la langue (2011) à un ensemble plus vaste de textes couvrant les XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Après une présentation du corpus existant, il évoque les principes mis en œuvre pour sa continuation, en analysant notamment les critères de sélection pour les choix des textes, sans oublier les difficultés que l’entreprise soulève (découpage temporel…
Women in the History of Linguistics
The Cambridge Handbook of Language Standardization
Language standardization is the process by which conventional forms of a language are established and maintained. Bringing together internationally renowned experts, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of standardization, norms and standard languages. Chapters are grouped into five thematic areas: models and theories of standardization, questions of authority and legitimacy, literacy and education, borders and boundaries, and standard…
Sociolinguistique historique et suivi de l’évolution des langues: Sources, types et genres de textes
Multilingualism and Identity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
The analysis and understanding of multilingualism, and its relationship to identity in the face of globalization, migration and the increasing dominance of English as a lingua franca, makes it a complex and challenging problem that requires insights from a range of disciplines. With reference to a variety of languages and contexts, this book offers fascinating insights into multilingual identity from a team of world-renowned scholars, working fro…
Multilingualism and Identity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
The Oxford Handbook of the French Language
This volume provides the first comprehensive reference work in English on the French language in all its facets. It offers a wide-ranging approach to the rich, varied, and exciting research across multiple subfields, with seven broad thematic sections covering the structures of French; the history of French; axes of variation; French around the world; French in contact with other languages; second language acquisition; and French in literature, c…
Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (12 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · History (8 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (7 works) · Humanities (6 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works)