Paul Laurendeau
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Paul Laurendeau is a Canadian novelist, linguist, and language philosopher.
Laurendeau (born in 1958) has been a professor of French linguistics at York University (Toronto, Canada) since 1988 and has a Doctorat ès Lettres from Université Denis Diderot (Paris VII), awarded in 1986 under the direction of the eminent French linguist Antoine Culioli. (Dissertation panel: Jean-Marcel Léard, Denis Paillard, Georges Vignaux, Jean-Blaize Grize, Antoine Culioli). He also attended courses and seminars given by Oswald Ducrot (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), Jean-Pierre Desclès (Paris VIII), Bernard Cerquiglini (Paris VII), and Bernard Pottier (Sorbonne).
Laurendeau’s research interests are enunciative linguistics, sociolinguistics, language philosophy, and ontological philosophy. He inquires into the production and reproduction of rationality in vernacular thought.
He wrote the linguistic novel L'assimilande in 2007 and the collection of short stories Femmes fantastiques in 2008.
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