Reader in French and Linguistics

Room: 1.05
Tel: +44 20 7882 8319
Fax: +44 20 8980 5400
email: l.oakes@qmul.ac.uk

Areas of specialisation

Language and national identity in France, Québec and Sweden; language planning; language attitudes; variation in French; language in the European Union; language and globalisation.

Publications

Books

• (2007, co-authored with Jane Warren). Language, Citizenship and Identity in Quebec. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (Winner of the 2008 Pierre Savard prize (category: book in English or French) awarded by the International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS).)
• (2005, with I. Lockerbie, I., I. Molinaro, I. and K. Larose). French as the Common Language in Québec: History, Debates and Positions. (New Perspectives in Québec Studies 2). Montréal: Éditions Nota bene.
• (2001). Language and National Identity: Comparing France and Sweden . Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Articles and book chapters

• (2008). Language planning and policy in Quebec. In D. Ayoun (ed.) Studies in French Applied Linguistics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 345-385.
• (2007). Whose French? Language attitudes and linguistic insecurity in Québec. In M. Howard (ed.) Language Issues in Canada: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 64-85.
  
• (2007, co-authored with A. Linn) Language policies for a global era: the changing face of language politics in Scandinavia. In C. Fandrych and R. Salverda (ed.) Standard, Variation und Sprachwandel in germanischen Sprachen/Standard, Variation and Language Change in Germanic Languages. (Studien zur deutschen Sprache 41). Mannheim: Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 59-90.
  
• (2006). Le défi de l'ethnicité: modèles de nation et politique linguistique au Québec et ailleurs. In P. Georgeault and M. Pagé (eds) Le français, langue de la diversité québécoise. (Débats) Montréal: Québec Amérique, 107-129.
  
• (2005). From internationalisation to globalisation: Language and the nationalist revival in Sweden. Language Problems and Language Planning 29 (2): 151-176.
• (2004) Le français comme "langue publique commune" au Québec. Globe: Revue internationale d'études québécoises 7(2): 155-176.
• (2004). French - a language for all Québecers? Nations and Nationalism 10 (4): 539-558.
• (2004). Language, Identity and Globalisation in Sweden. In L. R. N. Ashley and W. H. Finke (eds.), Language and Identity: Selected Papers (from the American Society of Geolinguistics International Conference, October 2-5, 2002). New York: Cummings and Hathaway, 7-20 (2003)
• (2003). Svenskan och svenskheten . Språkvård 3/03: 30-35.
• (2002). Multilingualism in Europe: An effective French identity strategy? Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 23 (5): 371-387.
• (2002). Phonostylistique des annonceurs de la radio: Etude prosodique de textes radiophoniques. Journal of French Language Studies 12 (3): 279-306.

Reviews

• (2005). Review of Jocelyn Maclure, Quebec Identity: The Challenge of Pluralism (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003), Nations and Nationalism 11 (3): 482-484.
• (2003). Review of Pierre Larrivée (ed.), Linguistic Conflict and Language Laws. Understanding the Quebec Question , (Palgrave, 2003). Journal of French Language Studies 13 (3): 411-413.
• (2001). Review of Mette Zølner, Re-imagining the Nation: Debates on Immigrants, Identities and Memories , (Peter Lang, 2000) Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 22 (6): 545-547.

Courses taught

• French I
• French III
• French Foundations (linguistics component)
• French Phonetics and Phonology
• Language and Identity in Québec
• Language and Nation in Europe (MA in Language, Society and Change in Europe)
• Colonialism and the Languages of Western Europe (MA in Language, Society and Change in Europe) (contributions)