This book brings together contributions by outstanding authors who gathered in Oxford in October 2010 at the Maison française, including:
Louis-Jean Calvet: Professor at the University of Provence. In collaboration with the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, he works on language policy, particularly the struggle to maintain linguistic diversity.
Bernard Cerquiglini: Rector of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie. An eminent linguist and specialist on the French language, Bernard Cerquiglini is known as the “Professor” from TV5 Monde’s Merci Professeur!
Philippe Lane is the Cultural Attaché at the French Embassy in London.
Gudrun Ledegen: Sociolinguist, Lecturer in Linguistics at the Université de la Réunion. She specialises in contact between French and Creole in La Réunion.
The discussion is complemented by contributions by Maryse Bray, Karine Chevalier, Anne-Caroline Fiévet, Hélène Gill, Amélie Hien, Gaëlle Planchenault and Alena Podhorná-Polická.
Gudrun Ledegen is a Senior Lecturer in French and Linguistics at the Université de la Réunion. She has published on French Linguistics and Contact Linguistics. Her publications range from Le bon usage. Les étudiants et la norme linguistique (2000), to Anciens et nouveaux plurilinguismes. En hommage à Nicole Gueunier (2003), Pratiques linguistiques des jeunes en terrains plurilingues (2007) and Les Voix des Français in two volumes (2010) with Michaël Abecassis.
Karen Zouaoui holds an “Agrégation” in English (French teaching qualification) and has taught French at the Universities of Nottingham and Oxford, as well as English at the Universities of La Sorbonne and of Paris Diderot where she is now completing her Doctorat on the British avant-garde of the 1960s.