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Prof. Dr. Aude Wirth-Jaillard

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Université catholique de Louvain
Linguistics and Medieval History

External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2016 – July 2017

Last Update: 31.08.2017

Curriculum Vitae

Aude Wirth-Jaillard studied Classics, Linguistics and History at the Universities of Strasbourg and Nancy, where she received her PhD in Linguistics. Since 2008, she has been postdoctoral fellow in Linguistics and Medieval History at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Institut Émilie du Châtelet fellowship), Technische Universität Dresden (Fernand Braudel-IFER Outgoing Research Fellowship, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Foundation ‒ European Commission ‒ Fritz Thyssen Foundation) and Université catholique de Louvain (FSR Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and FSR Incoming Postdoctoral Fellowship co-funded by the Marie Curie Actions of the European Commission). In fall 2017, She will be a Research Fellow at Collegium (Institute for Advanced Study of Lyon).

She has published on medieval anthroponymy, toponymy and onomasiology. Her current researches focus on non-literary medieval texts, mainly accounting records, but also trials, deeds or remission letters. In a both linguistic (sociolinguistic and pragmatic) and historical perspective, she studies justice and its language at the end of the Middle Ages, especially from fines received because of behaviours (hitting, injuries, disturbance…) or words (insults, blasphemies, accusations…). She is also interested in the regional varieties of French and is currently working on an etymological and historical dictionary of regionalisms.

Selected Publications

FRIAS Project