LEGLISE

Isabelle Léglise is a senior researcher in Linguistics at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS, Paris) where she heads programmes on Multilingualism, Language Variation and Contact at the SeDyL-CNRS (Structure et Dynamique des Langues).  Since 2000, she is engaged in research projects in French Guiana, Suriname and Brazil with a special focus on multilingualism related to migration and educational issues. She is also engaged in scientific cooperation, in Amazonia or South-East Asia along with the IRD where she heads the Federation of Research Centers in Social Sciences in the Global South. She published widely on language variation linked to contact linguistics, languaging and heterogeneous corpora, discourse analysis and language policy related to education and health in postcolonial settings. Her last publications include Exploring Language in a Multilingual Context: Variation, Interaction and Ideology in language documentation (2013, Cambridge University Press) with B. Migge, and the co-edition of books such as The Interplay of Variation and Change in Contact Settings (2013, John Benjamins) or In and out of Suriname: language, mobility and identity (2015, Brill).