CONTACT INFORMATION:
Professor of French Linguistics
Department of French
University of Illinois
2090 Foreign Languages building, 707 South Mathews Avenue
Urbana IL 61801 USA
| Office Telephone: | (217) 333-2020 |
| Office Fax: | (217) 244-2223 |
| Active email: | dkibbee@uiuc.edu |
| Relevant Webpage: | http://www.french.uiuc.edu/People/faculty/Kibbee.htm |
SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
History of language policy, sociohistorical linguistics
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
2000 "Historical Perspectives on the Place of Anglo-Norman in the History of the French Language" French Studies 54.137-153.
2000 "Language Instruction for Western European Travelers" in Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages, ed. By John Block Friedman & Kristen Mossler Figg. New York: Garland, pp. 330-331.
2003 "Les textes autoritaires, sources des normes linguistiques" Histoire Épistémologie Langage 24.5-27.
2003 "New, and fine, wine in an old bottle: The Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français." (Review Article) Romance Philology 55.103-110.
2003 "La Romania submersa dans les îles britanniques: après 1066" in Romanische Sprachgeshcichte. Histoire linguistique de la Romania. Gerhard Ernst, Martin-Dietrich Gleßgen, Christian Schmitt & Wolfgang Schweickard, eds., pp. 717-726. Berlin/ New York: Walter de Gruyter.
Forthcoming:
"L'Histoire de la langue et de la littérature française de Petit de Julleville: L'histoire de quelle langue?", Volume to celebrate the centenary of the publication of Petit de Julleville's Histoire de la langue et de la littérature française, Yannick Portebois & Jacques-Philippe Saint-Gérand, eds. Louvain: Peeters.
"Les images de l'autorité en matière de langue en France (1453-1647)" in Images of Authority and the Authority of Images, K. Fresco, ed. (Co-authored with Philippe Caron.)
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
I have studied the history of the texts used to teach French to English speakers in the Middle Ages, and more recently have explored aspects of language policy in medieval France (choice of language of official documents, use of languages in the legal system, etc.)
History of the Medieval Book:
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
Yes, I am interested in exchange of PhD students in the future, in staff exchanges with WUN partner institutions,in the development of online research resources, and in conducting a videoconferencing seminar or course.
I am involved in another exchange program with the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), which might ultimately lead to some interesting three-way exchanges.
I have created databases of French official texts relating to language policy (including some medieval mterial), and am currently collecting comments on French in the "Remarques" tradition (all post medieval)
MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
History of the French Language
MEDIEVAL COURSES WOULD LIKE TO SEE DEVELOPED:
French in Medieval England, or Language Conflict and its Resolution in the Middle Ages
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