Bernard Cerquiglini Explained

Office:Rector of the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie
Term2:2001–2004
Profession:Linguist
Education:École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud
Nationality:French
Birth Place:Lyon, France
Birth Date:8 April 1947
Prior Term2:1989–1993
Successor2:Xavier North
Predecessor:Michèle Gendreau-Massaloux
Predecessor2:Anne Magnant
Term1:2001–2004
Successor1:Erik Orsenna
Predecessor1:Jacques Friedel
Office1:President of Observatoire national de la lecture
Office2:General Delegation for the French language and the languages of France
Successor:Jean-Paul de Gaudemar
Term:2007–2015
Awards:Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (1993), Prix Georges-Dumézil (1997), Officier de la Légion d'honneur (2013)
Doctoral Advisor:Jean Stéfanini
Workplaces:University of Paris
Boards:Oulipo, Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium

Bernard Cerquiglini (born 8 April 1947 in Lyon, France),[1] is a French linguist.

A Graduate of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, having received an agrégé and a doctorate in letters, he was a teacher of linguistics in University of Paris VII, former director of the National Institute for the French language, former vice-president of the Conseil supérieur de la langue française and president of the French National Reading Observatory. In 1995 Bernard Cerquiglini joined the Oulipo. He was in charge of a governmental studies on a French orthography reform and about national languages in France. He received the title Doctor Honoris Causa at ULIM.

Biography

Bernard Cerquiglini is, through his paternal lineage, of Italian heritage from the region of Umbria (Perugia).[2] He notably served as the director of schooling (in other words, primary education) at the French Ministry of Education (1985–1987), as director of the Institut national de la langue française, as vice president of Conseil supérieur de la langue française, as a member of General Delegation for the French language and the languages of France (for two terms), as president of Observatoire national de la lecture. He was tasked with reforms of French orthography, then to report on the languages of France by different French Prime Ministers, as well as the feminization of trade names.

Bernard Cequiglini joined Oulipo in 1995 He authored an "utobiographie de l'accent circonflexe" (Autobiography of the Circumflexa), under the title "L'Accent du souvenir" (the accent of memory), in it he played the role of "gardien de la langue" (guardian of the language) to defend its evolution and on certain occasions its simplification.

Cerquiglini's Eloge de la variante (Paris:Seuil, 1989; trans. in 1999 into English, In Praise of the Variant, 1999), marks the beginning of the scholarly paradigm referred to as "the New Medievalism" (also: the New Philology), which was critical of modernist positivist editorial practices for medieval texts.[3] However, his claim that "[p]hilology is a bourgeois, paternalist, and hygienist system of thought about the family; it cherishes filiation, tracks down adulterers, and is afraid of contamination. Its thought is based on what is wrong (the variant being a form of deviant behaviour), and it is the basis for a positive methodology",[4] was criticised by the Indologist Reinhold Grünendahl, who argued that the aim of Cerquiglini's work is not to contribution to a methodological debate but to confirm the premise of critical theory.[5]

After his tenure as director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge,[6] he became rector of the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie from 2007 to 2015.[7] Since May 2020, Cerquiglini has been vice president of the Alliance française foundation.

He also presents a weekly short format program on TV5Monde about linguistics called Merci professeur !

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Notes and References

  1. " Biographie : qui est Bernard Cerquiglini ? ", on La République des Lettres.
  2. Web site: Bernard Cerquiglini du 07 février 2013 – France Inter. 26 February 2021. www.franceinter.fr. 7 February 2013 . fr.
  3. Richard Utz, "Them Philologists: Philological Practices and Their Discontents from Nietzsche to Cerquiglini." The Year’s Work in Medievalism (2011): 4–12.
  4. Bernard Cerquiglini, In Praise of the Variant. A Critical History of Philology. Transl. by Betsy Wing. [Parallax]. Baltimore 1999, p. 49.
  5. Reinhold Grünendahl, "Post-philological Gestures — 'Deconstructing' Textual Criticism," Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens 52–53 (2009–2010), pp.17–28. doi:10.1553/wzks2009-2010
  6. Web site: Un peu d'histoire. bot: unknown. https://web.archive.org/web/20210514132820/https://www.lsu.edu/cffs/francais/about/history.php. 14 May 2021. 26 February 2021. Louisiana State University.
  7. Web site: 5 April 2008. AUF Agence universitaire de la francophonie Bernard Cerquiglini élu recteur de l'Agence universitaire de la Francophonie. https://web.archive.org/web/20080405044414/http://www.auf.org/article786.html. dead. 2008-04-05. 26 February 2021.
  8. Web site:
    1. Sénégal : Cérémonie de remise du titre de Docteur Honoris Causa de l'Université Assane Seck de Ziguinchor conféré au Professeur Bernard Cerquiglini, Recteur de l'AUF.
    . 26 February 2021. AUF. fr-CA.
  9. Web site: Décret du 29 mars 2013 portant promotion et nomination – Légifrance. 26 February 2021. www.legifrance.gouv.fr.
  10. Web site: Décret du 31 décembre 1993 portant promotion et nomination – Légifrance. 26 February 2021. www.legifrance.gouv.fr.
  11. 2002. Archives du Bureau du Cabinet du ministre de la Culture. Ordre des arts et lettres (1962–2000). Archives Nationales (France).

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