Reader in French and Linguistics

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

Office hours: Mon 12noon-1pm, Thurs 1-2pm

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

• (2009, co-authored with Jane Warren). Langue, citoyenneté et identité au Québec. Ste-Foy: Les Presses de l’Université Laval. (Translation of title below)
• (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

• (2011). Regional languages, the European Charter and Republican values in France today. In C. Norrby and J. Hajek (eds.) Uniformity and Diversity in Language Policy: Global Perspectives. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 68-85.
• (2011, co-authored with Jane Warren). Language policy and citizenship in Quebec: French as a force for unity in a diverse society? In C. Norrby and J. Hajek (eds.) Uniformity and Diversity in Language Policy: Global Perspectives. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 7-21.
• (2011). Promoting language rights as fundamental individual rights: France as a model? French Politics 9 (1): 50-68.
• (2010). Lambs to the slaughter? Young francophones and the role of English in Quebec today. Multilingua 29 (3-4): 265-288.
• (2008). Language planning and policy in Quebec. In D. Ayoun (ed.) Studies in French Applied Linguistics. (Language Learning and Language Teaching 21). 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.

Professional activities

• Associate Editor and Co-Editor for Book Reviews (Australasia, Canada and Europe) of Language Policy
• Associate Fellow (Canadianist): Institute for the Study of the Americas (Advanced Institute of Study, University of London)
• Member of the comitée d'administration for the Association internationale des études québécoises (AIÉQ)
• Member of international editorial board for Recherches sociographiques
• Member of the Council of the British Association of Canadian Studies (BACS)
• Chercheur associé at the Laboratoire de lexicologie et lexicographie québécoises (LexiQué) and member of the Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur les activités langagières (CIRAL), Université Laval, Canada
• Member of editorial board for Cahiers (Association for French Language Studies)

Courses currently taught

• French I
• French Foundations (linguistics component)
• French Phonetics and Phonology
• Sociolinguistics of French
• Language Policy and Language Planning (MA module)