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Personal profile
Research Focus
Emma is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in the school of Arts, English and Languages (2024-2027).
Current Project: Prescriptivism in French Popular Culture
Find out more: YourWrong.co.uk
Previously, Emma was a Research Fellow in Language Policy in the School of Arts, English and Languages, working on the AHRC Modern Languages Leadership Fellowship Language Policy Project ‘Foreign, indigenous and community languages in the devolved regions of the UK: policy and practice for growth.’
Research Interests
Emma's research interests are sociolinguistics, language policy, language ideologies and attitudes. Her current project explores the extent to which linguistic prescriptivism is a part of French popular culture, the forms that this takes, and the consequences of this.
Particulars
Emma completed her PhD at the University of Nottingham and has previously worked at the University of Cambridge, the University of Birmingham, Cardiff University and Université Paris Diderot (Paris VII).
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Linguistic insecurities and authorities: 19th- and 21st-century language commentary on French
Humphries, E., 10 Apr 2025, John Benjamins.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Rob Drummond. You're all talk: Why we are what we speak. Scribe, 2023, pp.250
Humphries, E., 01 Mar 2025, Babel: the language magazine, 50, p. 48 1 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Book/Film/Article review
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Comparing the prescriptivism of nineteenth- and twenty-first-century language experts in France
Humphries, E., 04 Jul 2024, Historical and sociolinguistic approaches to French. Carruthers, J., McLaughlin, M. & Walsh, O. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 276-296Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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McLaughlin Mairi. La Presse française historique : Histoire d’un genre et histoire de la langue. (Histoire et évolution du français, 7). Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2021, 407 pp. 978 2 406 10356 1
Humphries, E., 06 Sept 2024, (Early online date) In: Journal of French Language Studies. p. 1-2 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Qualifications in home languages: opportunities, barriers and policy implications
Humphries, E., Carruthers, J. & Henderson, L., 02 Apr 2024, (Early online date) In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile61 Downloads (Pure)
Prizes
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
Humphries, E. (Recipient), 2024
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Prescriptivism on French-language Twitter
Humphries, E. (Invited speaker)
Jan 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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What does it mean to be multilingual in the UK?
Humphries, E. (Invited speaker)
Oct 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Roundtable: French Studies and the precarious humanities
Humphries, E. (Invited speaker)
2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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The challenges and opportunities of home language qualifications in the UK
Humphries, E. (Invited speaker)
2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Home languages in Northern Ireland: the attitudes of young people
Humphries, E. (Contributor)
2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Press/Media
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Lexis Podcast: Emma Humphries and Prescriptivism
08/03/2025
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities