Federica Diémoz

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Federica Diémoz (born April 28, 1975 - August 19, 2019 ) was an Italian-Swiss Romance philologist and dialectologist .

Life

Federica Diémoz came from the village of Roisan in the Aosta Valley . She studied linguistics, literature and folklore in Turin and did her doctorate at the University of Neuchâtel with a thesis on her mother tongue, the Franco-Provençal dialect of the Aosta Valley. In 2009 she became Professor of Linguistics at the University of Neuchâtel. As the successor to Andres Kristol , she headed the Center for Romance Dialectology ( Center de dialectologie et d'étude du français régional ) at the University of Neuchâtel and, from 2015 to 2017, interim at the Glossaire des patois de la Suisse romande dictionary institute .

Her main research areas were the history of the Romance languages as well as the dialectology and sociolinguistics of Franco-Provencal in the Alpine region. One of her linguistic projects is the Atlas linguistique audiovisuel des dialectes francoprovençaux du Valais romand .

Since 2016 she has been leading the Language Design in WhatsApp: Icono / Graphy project , which is part of the Sinergia project “What's up, Switzerland?” Together with Christa Dürscheid from the University of Zurich .

In spring 2019, Federica Diémoz was elected President of the Commission of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences for the four national dictionaries . In her home region she was Vice-President of the Institute Center d'études francoprovençales “René Willien” .

On August 19, 2019, Federica Diémoz died of a serious illness at the age of 44.

Works (selection)

  • Langue et Patrimoine pour la construction critique d'une identité valdôtaine. Quelques réflexions méthodologiques. In: Nouvelles du center d'études francoprovençales René Willien, 63, pp. 29–34.
  • with Serge Rossier: Le patois. Une langue et un patrimoine communautaire. In: Christophe Mauron, Isabelle Raboud-Schüle (eds.): La Gruyère dans le miroir de son patrimoine, catalog du Musée gruérien, Neuchâtel 2011, 2nd volume, Entre ville et campagne, pp. 103–114.
  • Langue et patrimoine immatériel, portrait de l'espace geographique et anthropique. In: Paola Polito, Alberto Roncaccia (eds.): Entre espace et paysage. Pour une approche interdisciplinaire., In: Revue Etudes de Lettres, 293, no 1–2, Lausanne 2013, pp. 143–165.
  • Ernest Schüle . Écrits sur la Vallée d'Aoste. Quart 2012.

literature

  • † Federica Diémoz (1975-2019). In: Glossaire des patois de la Suisse romande. 119 e et 120 e rapports annuels 2017–2018 avec bibliographie linguistique 2017–2018. Messeiller, Neuchâtel 2019, p. 7 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Professeure de linguistique à l'Université de Neuchâtel, Federica Diémoz est décédée on arcinfo.ch. Retrieved June 24, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Diémoz, Federica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian and Swiss Romance languages
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1975
DATE OF DEATH 19th August 2019