Contact Information
2090 FLB
707 S Mathews
M/C 158
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Research Interests
- History of the French language
- Language policy in the Francophone world and in the United States
- Language and Human Rights
- Translation
Education
- B.A. Colgate University 1971
- PhD Indiana University 1979
Grants
- 2019 Leverhulme Trust, Distinguished Visiting Scholar (U of Nottingham, UK)
- 2017 Chercheur invité, Corpus de textes linguistiques fondamentaux (Paris)
- 2016 Fulbright Research Scholar (Paris)
- 2013 Professeur invité, Institut des Humanités Université de Paris 7 Denis Diderot (Paris)
- 2013 Chercheur invité, CNRS Histoire des Théories Linguistiques
- 2011 Research Fellow, Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor Emeritus, French and Italian
Intellectual Property
Books
- Kibbee, Douglas A. Language and the Law. Linguistic Inequality in America. . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Chomskyan (R)evolutions. . Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2010.
- Kibbee, Douglas, Zsuzsanna Fagyal, and Frederick Jenkins. French: A Linguistic Introduction. . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Kibbee, Douglas. Voices of the Elders. . Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2005.
Journal Articles
- "Les métaphores politico-légales dans l’histoire de la linguistique prescriptive du français au XVIIe siècle." Languages 182 (2011):
- Kibbee, Douglas. "Minority Language Rights: Historical and Comparative Perspectives." Intercultural Human Rights Law Review 3 (2008): 79-136.
- Kibbee, Douglas. "A Comparative View of Minority Language Protection." Acts of the Beijing Forum: Language Identity and Language Change in Collision and Dialog Between Civilizations 1 (2007): . 5-30.
- "The boundaries of nature in the discipline of linguistics." Language Sciences 26 (2004): 301-311.
- Kibbee, Douglas. "When Children.s Literature Transcends its Genre: Translating Alice in Wonderland." META 48 (2003): 307-321.
Recent Publications
Candel, D., & Kibbee, D. (2018). Introduction. Ela, 191(3), 261-265.
Kibbee, D. A. (2018). Des « commentaires» aux « remarques»: La confluence des disciplines en linguistique appliquée. Ela, 190(2), 153-162.
Kibbee, D. A., & Keller, M. (Eds.) (2018). Scipion Dupleix: Liberté de la langue françoise dans sa pureté. (Descriptions and Theories of the French Language; No. 3). Classiques Garnier. https://doi.org/10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-07132-7
Caron, P., & Kibbee, D. (2017). Les images de l’autorité en matière de langue en France (1453–1647). In K. L. Fresco (Ed.), Authority of Images / Images of Authority: Shaping Political and Cultural Identities in the Pre-Modern World (pp. 37-52). Medieval Institute Publications. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1ws7x4w.8
Kibbee, D. A. (2016). Language and the law: Linguistic inequality in America. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139178013