Bernard Cerquiglini

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Bernard Cerquiglini
Erik Orsenna
General Delegation for the French language and the languages of France
In office
2001–2004
Preceded byAnne Magnant
Succeeded byXavier North
Personal details
Born8 April 1947
Lyon, France
EducationÉcole normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud
Profession
Linguist
AwardsCommandeur des Arts et des Lettres (1993), Prix Georges-Dumézil (1997), Officier de la Légion d'honneur (2013)
Bernard Cerquiglini
Board member ofOulipo, Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium
Academic background
Doctoral advisorJean Stéfanini
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Paris

Bernard Cerquiglini (born 8 April 1947 in Lyon, France),[1] is a French linguist.

A Graduate of the

University of Paris VII, former director of the National Institute for the French language, former vice-president of the Conseil supérieur de la langue française and president of the French National Reading Observatory. In 1995 Bernard Cerquiglini joined the Oulipo. He was in charge of a governmental studies on a French orthography reform and about national languages in France. He received the title Doctor Honoris Causa at ULIM
.

Biography

Bernard Cerquiglini is, through his paternal lineage, of Italian heritage from the region of Umbria (Perugia).

French Prime Ministers, as well as the feminization of trade names.[2]

Bernard Cequiglini joined Oulipo in 1995 He authored an "utobiographie de l'accent circonflexe" (Autobiography of the Circumflexa), under the title "L'Accent du souvenir" (the accent of memory), in it he played the role of "gardien de la langue" (guardian of the language) to defend its evolution and on certain occasions its simplification.

Cerquiglini's Eloge de la variante (Paris:Seuil, 1989; trans. in 1999 into English, In Praise of the Variant, 1999), marks the beginning of the scholarly paradigm referred to as "the

New Philology), which was critical of modernist positivist editorial practices for medieval texts.[3] However, his claim that "[p]hilology is a bourgeois, paternalist, and hygienist system of thought about the family; it cherishes filiation, tracks down adulterers, and is afraid of contamination. Its thought is based on what is wrong (the variant being a form of deviant behaviour), and it is the basis for a positive methodology",[4] was criticised by the Indologist Reinhold Grünendahl, who argued that the aim of Cerquiglini's work is not to contribution to a methodological debate but to confirm the premise of critical theory.[5]

After his tenure as director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge,[6] he became rector of the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie from 2007 to 2015.[7] Since May 2020, Cerquiglini has been vice president of the Alliance française foundation.

He also presents a weekly short format program on TV5Monde about linguistics called Merci professeur !

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Bibliography

Collected works

Critical Edition

Translation

Prefaces

References

  1. ^ " Biographie : qui est Bernard Cerquiglini ? ", on La République des Lettres.
  2. ^ a b "Bernard Cerquiglini du 07 février 2013 – France Inter". www.franceinter.fr (in French). 7 February 2013. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  3. ^ Richard Utz, "Them Philologists: Philological Practices and Their Discontents from Nietzsche to Cerquiglini." The Year’s Work in Medievalism (2011): 4–12.
  4. ^ Bernard Cerquiglini, In Praise of the Variant. A Critical History of Philology. Transl. by Betsy Wing. [Parallax]. Baltimore 1999, p. 49.
  5. ^ Reinhold Grünendahl, "Post-philological Gestures — 'Deconstructing' Textual Criticism," Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens 52–53 (2009–2010), pp.17–28. doi:10.1553/wzks2009-2010
  6. ^ "Un peu d'histoire". Louisiana State University. Archived from the original on 14 May 2021. Retrieved 26 February 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  7. ^ "AUF | Agence universitaire de la francophonie | Bernard Cerquiglini élu recteur de l'Agence universitaire de la Francophonie". 5 April 2008. Archived from the original on 5 April 2008. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  8. ^ "#Sénégal : Cérémonie de remise du titre de Docteur Honoris Causa de l'Université Assane Seck de Ziguinchor conféré au Professeur Bernard Cerquiglini, Recteur de l'AUF". AUF (in Canadian French). Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  9. ^ "Décret du 29 mars 2013 portant promotion et nomination – Légifrance". www.legifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  10. ^ "Décret du 31 décembre 1993 portant promotion et nomination – Légifrance". www.legifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  11. ^ "Archives du Bureau du Cabinet du ministre de la Culture. Ordre des arts et lettres (1962–2000)". Archives Nationales (France). 2002.

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