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Aurélie (Lily) Joubert

Address: SLLC, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, M13 9PL

email: Aurelie.Joubert@student.manchester.ac.uk

PhD title: "A comparative study of evolution of prestige formation and of speakers' attitudes in Catalan and Occitan"

Supervisors: Dr Iris Bachmann & Prof. Nigel Vincent (Advisor: Dr Delia Bentley)

Main Discipline area: Linguistics

Research specialism:

Sociolinguistics, Romance linguistics, sociology of language, historical linguistics, language policies, language minority rights.

Current project funded by the AHRC.

Publications: -2008/To appear: "Pour une sociologie du langage multidisciplinaire et de contraste: les exemples catalan et occitan", Actes du colloque de Neuchâtel. Peter Lang.

Conference Presentations: "Occitan et catalan: langues transnationales aux destins opposés". Conference "Catalogne-Occitanie" organised by the Association Française de catalanistes, Béziers, November 2007.

"Parallélismes et Divergences dans l'Évolution des Langues Occitane et Catalane", colloque de sociolinguistique historique du domaine gallo-roman (Conference on Historical sociolinguistics of the Gallo-romance area), Neuchâtel, June 2007.

Conference Organisation:

Co-organised the 16th postgraduate Linguistics conference, University of Manchester, April 2007.

Membership of Professional Organisations: Insititut d'Estudis Occitan

Professional biography:

-Master of Art in Linguistics with Merit, University of Manchester, 2006.

-First class Degree BA (Hons) in Linguistics, University of Manchester, 2005.