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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.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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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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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, 27 p.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., 10 Mar 2021, (Early online date) In: Language Learning Journal. p. 1-20Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Temporal Structures in Occitan and French Oral Narrative: The Role of Frames and Connectives
Carruthers, J. & Vergez-Couret, M., 20 Sep 2021, In: Linguisticae Investigationes. 44, 1, p. 1-36 36 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Conducting Interdisciplinary Research in Modern Languages. Towards ‘Common Ground’ and ‘Integration’’
Carruthers, J. & Fisher, L., 21 Sep 2020, In: Modern Languages Open. 1.49, p. 1-16Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Investigating Perceptions of banlieue French. Problematizing Theory and Methods.
McAuley, D. & Carruthers, J., 10 Sep 2020, Researching Language in Superdiverse Urban Contexts: Exploring Methodological and Theoretical Concepts. Mar-Molinero, C. (ed.). Multilingual Matters, p. 159-182 24 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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The Future of Languages in UK Research, Institute for Modern Languages Research, London
Janice Carruthers (Chair)
25 Mar 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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NORTHERN IRELAND CENTRE FOR INFORMATION ON LANGUAGE TEACHING & RESEARCH (External organisation)
Janice Carruthers (Board Member)
2022 → 2027Activity: Membership types › Membership of board
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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