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  1. Why top-down language policy matters

    Article • Language Learning Journal, October 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  2. Rethinking language education in the school curriculum in England

    Article • Language Learning Journal, September 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  3. Linguistic ideologies, personae and practices in seventeenth-century France

    Article • Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, April 2025, De Gruyter

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  4. Tracing change through different text types and genres: successes and challenges

    Article • Journal of French Language Studies, January 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  5. French and its varieties

    Article • July 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  6. Language Policy and Planning

    Article • July 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  7. Modern Languages Research: Towards a Challenge-Based Interdisciplinary Model

    Article • Modern Languages Open, January 2023, Liverpool University Press

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  8. The hidden face of public language policy: a case study from the UK

    Article • Current Issues in Language Planning, December 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  9. Multilingualism and Identity

    Article • July 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  10. The economic value to the UK of speaking other languages

    Article • January 2022, Rand Corporation

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  11. Introduction

    Article • July 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  12. REBECCA POSNER (17 August 1929–19 July 2018)

    Article • Language & History, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  13. Collaboration, Connectedness, Champions: Approaches Within Government

    Article • October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  14. Codification and prescription in linguistic standardisation

    Article • August 2016, John Benjamins

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  15. Language change in seventeenth-century France

    Article • Transactions of the Philological Society, March 2016, Wiley

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  16. La persistance de l’idéologie linguistique des remarqueurs

    Article • Circula, January 2015, Universite de Sherbrooke

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  17. Problems and Perspectives

    Article • February 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  18. Prescriptivism, codification and usage

    Article • January 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  19. Bernard Combettes / Céline Guillot / Evelyne Oppermann-Marsaux / Sophie Prévost / Amalia Rodríguez Somolinos (edd.), Le changement en français. Études de linguistique diachronique (Sciences pour la communication, 89), Berne et al., Lang, 2010, X + 402 p.

    Article • Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie (ZrP), January 2013, De Gruyter

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  20. Linguistics and philology in the twenty-first century: introduction

    Article • Transactions of the Philological Society, November 2011, Wiley

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  21. French Linguistics Research and Teaching in UK and Irish HE Institutions

    Article • July 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Professor Florence Myles

  22. Compilations, recueils, collections

    Article • French Studies, June 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  23. Les Compilations raisonnees des Remarques et Observations sur la langue francaise

    Article • French Studies, June 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  24. Metaphors in metalinguistic texts

    Article • January 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  25. Presenting Grammar to a Non-Specialist Audience: Vaugelas's Use of Metaphors in hisRemarques sur la langue françoise(1647)

    Article • Seventeenth-Century French Studies, July 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  26. Le Parnasse et le Palais: L'OEuvre de Furetiere et la genese du premier dictionnaire encyclopedique en langue francaise (1649-1690)

    Article • French Studies, July 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  27. La modernité de l'usage linguistique de L'Astrée vue par les yeux d'un remarqueur

    Article • Dix-septième siècle, January 2007, CAIRN

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  28. Dissertation sur les causes de l'universalité de la langue françoise et la durée vraisemblable de son empire with Le Discours de M. de Rivarol (review)

    Article • Nineteenth Century French Studies, January 2007, Project Muse

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  29. Join Zoom Meeting

    Article • Historiographia Linguistica, December 2006, John Benjamins

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  30. A History of the French Language Through Texts

    Article • June 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  31. Grammaire francaise (1586): texte latin original

    Article • French Studies, April 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  32. Sociolinguistic Variation in Seventeenth-Century France

    Article • October 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  33. Preface

    Article • October 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  34. Introduction: Methodological issues

    Article • October 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  35. Spoken and written French

    Article • October 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  36. Social and stylistic variation

    Article • October 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  37. Women's language

    Article • October 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  38. Age, variation and change

    Article • October 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  39. Conclusion

    Article • October 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  40. References

    Article • October 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  41. Appendix: Corpora of metalinguistic texts

    Article • October 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  42. Socio-historical linguistics and the history of French

    Article • Journal of French Language Studies, September 2001, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  43. Dominioue Bouhours: Doutes sur la langue francoise proposez a Messieurs de l'Academie Francoise par un gentil homme de province (1674). Introduction par Giovanni Dotoli. Etablissement du texte, notes, bibliographie et index par Fulvia Fiorino. (Bibliot...

    Article • French Studies, July 2001, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  44. La Variation et la norme: essais de dialectologie galloromane et d'histoire de la langue francaise. By Zygmunt Marzys. (Recueil de travaux publies par la Faculte des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, 46). Universite de Neuchatel, 1998. 293 pp. Pb 45 SwF.

    Article • French Studies, April 2001, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  45. Les Ceremonies de la parole: L'eloquence d'apparat en France dans le dernier quart du XVIIe siecle

    Article • The Modern Language Review, July 2000, JSTOR

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  46. Review. Textes d'etude (ancien et moyen francais). Collet, Olivier

    Article • French Studies, April 1999, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  47. Review. Melanges sur les varietes du francais de France, d'hier et d'aujourd'hui (II). Chambon, Jean-Pierre, Pierre Rezeau, and Eliane Schneider

    Article • French Studies, April 1999, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  48. Review. L'Evolution du francais: ordre des mots, demonstratifs, accent tonique. Marchello-Nizia, Christiane

    Article • French Studies, January 1999, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  49. A History of the French Language through Texts

    Article • Language, December 1997, JSTOR

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  50. Review. Gesprochenes Franzosisch und Sprachgeschichte: Zur Rekonstruktion der Gesprachskonstitution in Dialogen franzosischer Sprachlehrbucher des 17. Jahrhunderts unter besonderer Berucksichtigung der italienischen Adaptionen. Radtke, Edgar

    Article • French Studies, October 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  51. REVIEWS

    Article • French Studies, October 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  52. Review. Sprachlicher Alltag. Linguistik-Rhetorik-Literaturwissenschaft. Festschrift fur Wolf-Dieter Stempel. Sabban, Annette and Christian Schmitt (eds)

    Article • French Studies, July 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  53. From Malherbe to the French Academy onQuinte-Curce:The Role of Observations, Translations and Commentaries in French Linguistic Thought

    Article • Seventeenth-Century French Studies, June 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  54. From Malherbe to the French Academy on Quinte-Curce: The Role of Observations, Translations and Commentaries in French Linguistic Thought

    Article • Seventeenth-Century French Studies, June 1997, Maney Publishing

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  55. Review. L'Invention de la phrase au XVIIIe siecle: Contribution a l'histoire du sentiment linguistique francais. Seguin, Jean-Pierre

    Article • French Studies, April 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  56. Enfin D'urfé Vint?

    Article • Seventeenth-Century French Studies, January 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  57. Enfin D'urfé Vint?

    Article • Seventeenth-Century French Studies, January 1996, Maney Publishing

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  58. Review. Mutations et sclerose: La langue francaise 1789-1848. Saint-Gerand, Jacques-Philippe (ed.)

    Article • French Studies, April 1995, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  59. REVIEWS

    Article • French Studies, January 1995, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  60. Review. Les Voix du signe: Nature et origine du language a la Renaissance (1480-1580). Demonet, Marie-Luce

    Article • French Studies, July 1994, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  61. REVIEWS

    Article • French Studies, January 1994, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  62. Les ailes du temps et la plume du « remarqueur » : la tradition puriste au XIXe siècle

    Article • Romantisme, January 1994, PERSEE Program

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  63. NEGATIVE EVIDENCE: OR ANOTHER LOOK AT THE NON-USE OF NEGATIVE NE IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH

    Article • French Studies, January 1994, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  64. Le rôle des femmes dans l'élaboration des idées linguistiques au XVIIe siècle en France

    Article • Histoire Épistémologie Langage, January 1994, PERSEE Program

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  65. Negative Evidence: Or Another Look at the Non-Use of Negative ne in Seventeenth-Century French

    Article • French Studies, January 1994, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  66. ‘UNE REGRETTABLE ET FORT DISGRACIEUSE FAUTE DE FRANÇAIS‘?: THE DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF THE FRENCH SURCOMPOSÉS FROM 1530 TO THE PRESENT DAY.

    Article • Transactions of the Philological Society, November 1992, Wiley

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  67. Review. A History of the French Language. Rickard, Peter

    Article • French Studies, April 1992, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  68. REVIEWS

    Article • French Studies, January 1992, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  69. Le Francais preclassique 1500-1650. Vol. I

    Article • The Modern Language Review, January 1992, JSTOR

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  70. Une Lettre inedite de Vaugelas a Antoine-Philibert (Albert) Bailly (7 janvier 1650)

    Article • The Modern Language Review, July 1991, JSTOR

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  71. Review. La Variation dans la langue en France du XVIe au XIXe siecle. Baddeley, S., N. Catach, J. Chaurand, et al

    Article • French Studies, July 1991, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  72. REVIEWS

    Article • French Studies, January 1991, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  73. REVIEWS

    Article • French Studies, January 1991, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  74. Review. Les Doctrines orthographiques du XVIe siecle en France. Citton, Yves and Andre Wyss

    Article • French Studies, January 1991, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  75. Review. Renaissance Linguistics Archive 1350-1700: A Second Print-Out from the Secondary Sources Data-Base. Lardet, Pierre and Tavoni, Mirko (eds)

    Article • French Studies, October 1990, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  76. REVIEWS

    Article • French Studies, January 1990, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  77. REVIEWS

    Article • French Studies, January 1990, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  78. REVIEWS

    Article • French Studies, January 1990, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  79. REVIEWS

    Article • French Studies, January 1990, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  80. Women and Grammar in Seventeenth-Century France

    Article • Seventeenth-Century French Studies, January 1990, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  81. Women and Grammar in Seventeenth-Century France

    Article • Seventeenth-Century French Studies, January 1990, Maney Publishing

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  82. ‘Influence’ in Linguistic Historiography

    Article • January 1990, John Benjamins

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  83. Review. Cesar-Pierre Richelet (1626-1698): Biographie et oeuvre lexicographique. Bray, Laurent

    Article • French Studies, January 1990, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  84. Review. Grammatical Theory in Western Europe 1500-1700: Trends in Vernacular Grammar II. Padley, G. A.

    Article • French Studies, January 1990, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  85. Review. Relatives, restrictives et relatives appositives: une opposition 'introuvable'? Kleiber, Georges

    Article • French Studies, October 1989, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  86. Review. Die lexikalischen Archaismen in den Fabeln von La Fontaine. Stefenelli, Arnulf

    Article • French Studies, July 1989, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  87. Review. Collins-Robert French-English, English-French Dictionary. Atkins, Beryl T. and others

    Article • French Studies, April 1989, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  88. REVIEWS

    Article • French Studies, January 1989, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  89. REVIEWS

    Article • French Studies, January 1989, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  90. REVIEWS

    Article • French Studies, January 1989, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  91. Review. Etudes de linguistique dualiste. Essai sur la stylistique envisagee comme complement de la grammaire. Essai sur les 'penidentemes' (les 'faux amis' et les 'vrais amis') de deux vocabulaires. Reiner, Erwin

    Article • French Studies, October 1988, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  92. Review. Le Moyen Francais. Actes du Ve Colloque international sur le Moyen Francais. Milan, 6-8 mai 1985. Vol. II.

    Article • French Studies, July 1988, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  93. REVIEWS

    Article • French Studies, January 1988, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  94. REVIEWS

    Article • French Studies, January 1988, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  95. Review. A Comprehensive French Grammar. Third edition revised by Glanville Price. Byrne, L. S. R. and Churchill, E. L.

    Article • French Studies, October 1987, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  96. REVIEWS

    Article • French Studies, January 1987, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  97. Usage and Reason in Seventeenth-Century French Grammar

    Article • January 1987, John Benjamins

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  98. Review. Dictionary. The Concise Oxford French Dictionary. Second Edition. French-English, edited by H. Ferrar, English-French by J. A. Hutchinson and J.-D. Biard

    Article • French Studies, October 1986, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  99. REVIEWS

    Article • French Studies, January 1986, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  100. Review. La Preface des 'Remarques sur la langue francoise'. Editee avec introduction et notes par Zygmunt Marzys. Vaugelas, C. F. de

    Article • French Studies, October 1985, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  101. REVIEWS

    Article • French Studies, January 1985, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett

  102. Review. Avatars du francais de Rivarol aux neolinguistes. Kenec'hdu, Tanguy

    Article • French Studies, January 1985, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett