Kate Beeching

Kate Beeching is Reader in Linguistics and French at the University of the West of England, Bristol. She was President of the Association for French Language Studies till September 2009 and remains on the Research Committee of this Association. Her research interests are in sociolinguistics, pragmatics and spoken corpora, specifically in the analysis of spoken French. Publications include Gender, politeness and pragmatic particles in French (2002), and a volume co-edited with Nigel Armstrong and Françoise Gadet Sociolinguistic variation in contemporary French (2009) (both published by Benjamins). More recently she has developed an interest in diachronic aspects of pragmatic markers and translation equivalence, with journal articles entitled Politeness-induced semantic change: the case of quand même (2005) and Semantic change: evidence from false friends (2010).

Dr. Kate Beeching
Department of English, Linguistics and Communication
University of the West of England, Bristol
Frenchay Campus
Coldharbour Lane
BRISTOL BS16 1QY

Tel: 0117-328-2385
Fax: 0117-328-2295
Email: Kate.Beeching@uwe.ac.uk