Francine Mazière
List of John Benjamins publications for which Francine Mazière plays a role.
Articles
2014 Travail du pouvoir et productions sur la ‘langue française’ au XVIIe siècle History of Linguistics 2011: Selected Papers from the 12th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XII), Saint Petersburg, 28 August - 2 September 2011, Kasevich, Vadim, Yuri A. Kleiner and Patrick Sériot (eds.), pp. 27–36 | Article
The French language was constructed by way of discussions across heterogeneous productions (remarks, libels, grammars, methods, treatises, translation, etc.) which were conducted throughout widely scattered sites (salons, academies, clientel networks). Consensus was arrived at because the political… read more
2011 Les Méthodes au XVIIe siècle: Un outil composite. Irson, Lancelot, Nicole History of Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the eleventh International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XI), 28 August - 2 September 2008, Potsdam, Haßler, Gerda (ed.), pp. 251–263 | Article
Seventeenth-century “Méthodes”, which aimed to present the French language, are more than simply grammars; they contain treatises on poetry, etymology, and rhetoric, and they even offer advice about social behavior. In the period 1656–1662, the Cartesian-Gallicanism of Port-Royal faced serious… read more
2007 Une "Grammaire générale et raisonnée" en 1651 (1635?): Description et intérpretation d'une découverte empirique History of Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHOLS X), 1–5 September 2005, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, Kibbee, Douglas A. (ed.), pp. 131–155 | Article
The discovery of the works of Jean Macé has pushed back the publication of the first known French “general and rational grammar” to 1651 for certain, and perhaps as early as about 1635. The simplest way of realizing the historian’s goal of accounting for certain “phenomena” is to organize them into… read more
2007 Grammaire générale et grammaire particulière: Les Méthodes de Claude Irson History of Linguistics 2002: Selected papers from the Ninth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, 27-30 August 2002, São Paulo - Campinas, Guimarães, Eduardo and Diana Luz Pessoa de Barros (eds.), pp. 41 ff. | Article