Nationality Canadian Occupation Linguist | Name France Martineau | |
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L'auteure France Martineau : Bonsoir la muette
France Martineau is a Canadian linguist, professor at the University of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada, assigned to both the Linguistics Department and the French Department. A Leader in historical sociolinguistics and a pioneer in the digital humanities, she is an expert in Canadian French linguistics, presently holding the University of Ottawa Research Chair Le français en mouvement: Frontières, réseaux et contacts en Amérique française.
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- Lauteure France Martineau Bonsoir la muette
- Le franais du Canada nest pas moins bon
- Biography and achievements
- Publications
- Honours and distinctions
- References

Le français du Canada n'est pas moins bon
Biography and achievements
France Martineau was the director of the project Modéliser le changement : les voies du français, from 2005 to 2010, funded by the Major Collaborative Research Initiatives (MCRI) of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). This project, initiated by Dr Martineau, has been involved with the development of digitized corpora that have supported numerous research activities and conferences worldwide in the field of French historical sociolinguistics.
Professor Martineau is one of very few researchers to obtain a second MCRI grant. On March 16, 2011 at the University of Ottawa, in the company of such distinguished guests as Member of Parliament Royal Galipeau and the President of the University, Allan Rock, it was officially announced that Dr Martineau had been awarded $2.5 million in research funding for the international and interdisciplinary project Le français à la mesure d'un continent: un patrimoine en partage. Mr Rock stressed the importance of this project, which will enhance Canada's standing as a leader in international research on the French language.
France Martineau is editor of the Voies du français collection published by the Presses de l'Université Laval, and has been president of the Canadian Linguistics Association since 2011 (vice-president since 2009).
She manages the Laboratoire des Polyphonies, where students have the opportunity to learn and apply new skills.