Biography

Carol Sanders has taught at universities in Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Spain and the West Indies. In recent years she has taught modules on French Sociolinguistics at the universities of Surrey and Kent. She is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of Surrey, and Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of Kent.

Research Interests

In general, most aspects of French language, and the interface between language and other areas of French Studies. More specifically, Sociolinguistics, Stylistics, Advanced Language Learning, Historiography of Linguistics (especially Saussure and French Structuralism), Translation Studies, language and literature in the French-speaking world.

Publications

Recent books

Writings in General Linguistics, translated, annotated and introduced, with a bibliography of Saussure criticism (with M.Pires), Oxford University Press, 2006

Cambridge Companion to Saussure, Cambridge University Press, 2004

Coveney A., Hintze M-A. & Sanders C. eds. (2004) Variation et francophonie, Paris: L’Harmattan.

Articles and Chapters

‘Structuralism’, entry for Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences (forthcoming)

‘Saussurean Trends in Twentieth Century Linguistics’, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Elsevier, 2005.

Entries on ‘France’, ‘Saussure’, ‘Benveniste’, Encyclopaedia of Linguistics, Europa/Taylor & Francis/Routledge, 2004.

Chaper in Council of Europe Niveau 2 pour le français, ed. Béacco et al, Didier, 2004.

Facques B. & Sanders C. (2004) Textes journalistiques et analyse contrastive du genre en didactique. Langages, 153, mars 2004, pp.86-97.

“Une si belle enfant ne pouvait pas être maudite”: polyphonic narrative in Maryse Condé’s “La Migration des coeurs”, in Aub-Buscher G. and Ormerod B. (2003) Cultural Aspects of the French West Indies in the late twentieth century, University of the West Indies Press.

E.F.K.Koerner and Linguistic Historiography, Journal of French Language Studies, 11,1: 135-140, March 2001

Saussure Translated, Historiographia Linguistica, xxvii 2/3, 2000.

Linguistic Historiography: a survey with particular reference to French Linguistics at the turn of the century, Journal of French Language Studies 10:2, 2000 pp.177-196.

Saussure Paris - Genève vu de Londres, Modèles Linguistiques, 2000, XX, 1: 94-107.

Previous books and Translations

Raymond Queneau, Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1994.

The French Language Today. Language in its social context. Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Cours de Français Contemporain: niveau approfondi, Cambridge University Press, 1986, pp 218 (with M.M. Gervais)

Raymond Queneau, Odile, translated with an introduction and notes, Dalkey Archive Press, Illinois, 1991

Annie Ernaux, Cleaned Out, translation of Les Armoires Vides, Dalkey Archive Press, Illinois, 1990