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Janice Carruthers is Professor of French Linguistics at Queen's and Dean of Research in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
She took her BA in Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge University (St Catharine’s College), where she subsequently took an MPhil in Linguistics, followed by a PhD in French Linguistics under the supervision of Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett. She was appointed to Queen’s in 1989 where she teaches and researches in French Language and Linguistics. She was Head of the School of Modern Languages from 2011 to 2016 and Priority Area Leadership Fellow in Modern Languages with the Arts and Humanities Research Council from 2017-2021.
Her main research interests and most of her outputs are in the following areas:
- the linguistic structure of oral narrative in French, particularly tense, aspect, temporal and spatial framing, negation, detachment, inversion, parataxis/hypotaxis, and speech and thought presentation;
- language and identity in France, French urban vernaculars, regional languages in France, language policy in France and the UK/Ireland, languages education in the UK/Ireland;
- corpus linguistics (notably in digital annotation using the Text Encoding Initiative);
- oral genres (particularly the linguistic features of different types of spoken French);
- sociolinguistic variation and change in French.
Janice has led large research projects including the Queen's strand of the AHRC-funded Open World Research Initiative project, Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies, working with partners in Cambridge, Nottingham and Edinburgh. She has been Principal Investigator on a Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodovska Curie Fellowship held by Marianne Vergez-Couret, exploring the concept of orality in contemporary storytelling in Occitan and French. She is currently Principal Investigator on an AHRC-funded project on 'Foreign, Indigenous and Community Languages in the Devolved Regions of the UK: Policy and Practice for Growth' where she collaborates with Dr Leanne Henderson (QUB). She is active in the area of language policy in the UK and has co-organised Policy Workshops with Wendy Ayres-Bennett (Cambridge), with associated Policy Briefings. She is the AHRC lead in a 5-way collaboration which published and is now implementing Towards a National Languages Strategy for the UK. Education and Skills (https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/2597/Towards-a-national-languages-strategy-July-2020_R0FHmzB.pdf), working with the British Academy, the British Council, Universities UK and the Association of School and College Leaders.
Janice has supervised PhDs on temporal patterning in sports commentary, on information structuring in French and Dagara oral narratives, on linguistic borrowing in different text-types and registers, on lexical creativity in young speakers in urban France, on the language of cosmetics advertising in women's magazines, on the discourse of asylum seekers and on language policy in France (specifically in relation to Breton). She is currently supervising a PhD on CLIL policy and, with Professor J. Rahilly and Dr Chen-En Ho, she is supervising a thesis on the Beijing dialect of Chinese.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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R1647AEL: Open World Research Initiative (OWRI)
Carruthers, J. & O Mainnin, M.
23/09/2016 → …
Project: Research
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R1638MOL: Oral storytelling in Modern French - establishing a corpus for syntactic analysis
01/08/2004 → …
Project: Research
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R6511MLA: Narration, linguistic expression and discourse structure: explorations of orality in Occitan and French
18/05/2015 → 18/08/2018
Project: Research
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Historical and sociolinguistic approaches to French
Carruthers, J., McLaughlin, M. & Walsh, O., 25 Aug 2023, (Accepted) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 400 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Temporal patterning and 'degrees of orality' in Occitan and French oral narrative
Carruthers, J. & Vergez-Couret, M., 31 May 2023, In: Oral Tradition . 36, 1, p. 91-122 31 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Indexicalities in the Multilingual City: Listeners’ Perceptions of Urban Vernacular French
Carruthers, J. & McAuley, D., Aug 2022, Multilingualism and Identity. Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ayres-Bennett, W. & Fisher, L. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 109-130 27 p. (Cambridge Education Research).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Socio-Economic Factors, School Type and the Uptake of Languages. Northern Ireland in the Wider UK Context
Henderson, L. & Carruthers, J., Oct 2022, In: Language Learning Journal. 50, 6, p. 712-731 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Spoken French
Carruthers, J., 18 Feb 2022, (Accepted) The Oxford handbook of the French language. Ayres-Bennett, W. & McLaughlin, M. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 28 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Prizes
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Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques
Carruthers, Janice (Recipient), Jul 2021
Prize: National/international honour
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Election to Membership of Royal Irish Academy
Carruthers, Janice (Recipient), 16 Mar 2021
Prize: National/international honour
Activities
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Legenda (Research Monographs in French Studies) (Publisher)
Janice Carruthers (Editorial board member)
2005 → 2016Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
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French Studies (Journal)
Janice Carruthers (Editorial board member)
2008 → 2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
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Arts & Humanities Research Council (External organisation)
Janice Carruthers (Member)
2007 → 2016Activity: Membership types › Membership of peer review panel or committee
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Conference Paper: GCSE and A-Level languages continuation in Northern Ireland: An analysis of the intersection of factors predicting young people’s likelihood of opting-in to modern languages qualifications
Leanne Henderson (Speaker) & Janice Carruthers (Speaker)
12 Nov 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Blog Contribution: Inequalities in language learning: What are they and how can we fix them?
Leanne Henderson (Contributor) & Janice Carruthers (Contributor)
07 Oct 2022Activity: Other activity types › Other
Press/Media
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TV interview with France 3 on Marie Curie project on Occitan
05/04/2018
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Being Human: Photograph Exhibition
21/11/2017
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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Being Human: Languages Lost and Found
18/11/2017
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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Public Debate on Language Activism in King's London: Invited Speaker
04/10/2017
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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