Bernard Py
Bernard Py (* 1939 in La Chaux-de-Fonds ; † October 1, 2012 ) was a Swiss Romance scholar , Hispanist , sociolinguist and foreign language teacher .
life and work
Py did his doctorate with the thesis La interrogación en el español hablado de Madrid (Brussels 1971), was a Spanish teacher at the grammar school and became professor of applied linguistics and head of the Center de linguistique appliquée at the University of Neuchâtel (retired 2002).
Py was best known for his research on bilingualism .
Other works
- (with Georges Lüdi ) Bilingual through migration. Introduction to research into multilingualism using the example of two immigrant groups in Neuchâtel (Switzerland) , Tübingen 1984
- (Ed.) Acquisition d'une langue étrangère III. Actes du colloque organisé les 16-18 septembre 1982 à l'Université de Neuchâtel , Neuchâtel 1984
- (with Georges Lüdi) Etre bilingue , Bern / New York 1986, 2002, 2003, 2013
- (with Anne-Claude Berthoud) Des linguistes et des enseignants. Maîtrise et acquisition des langues secondes , Bern et al. 1993
- (with Georges Lüdi) Foreign language in your own country. When internal migrants change language areas in Switzerland and how they talk about it , Basel / Frankfurt 1994
- (Ed. With Michèle Grossen) Pratiques sociales et médiations symboliques , Bern et al. 1997
- (Ed.) Analysis conversationnelle et représentations sociales. Unité et diversité de l'image du bilinguisme , Neuchâtel 2000
- (Ed. With Véronique Castellotti) La notion de compétence en langue , Lyon 2002
- (Ed. With Rémy Porquier) Apprentissage d'une langue étrangère. Contextes et discours , Paris 2004
literature
- A course au contact des langues. Textes de Bernard Py commentés , ed. by Laurent Gajo et al., Paris 2004 (Festschrift)
- Le Monde October 11, 2012
- Jean-François De Pietro, Une pensée en mouvement et en contact. Hommage à Bernard Py, in: Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquée (VALS-ASLA) 97, 2013, pp. 1–6 ( http://doc.rero.ch/record/203091/files/De_Pietro_Jean-Fran_ois_-_Une_pens_e_en_mouvement_et_en_contact.201ernard17_Hommage .pdf )
Web links
- http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-4337.html (obituary, French and English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Py, Bernard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss Romance philologist, Hispanist, sociolinguist and foreign language teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Chaux-de-Fonds |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 1, 2012 |