Louis-Alexandre Bélisle
Louis-Alexandre Bélisle (born March 7, 1902 in Saint-Éloi , † September 12, 1985 in Québec ) was a Canadian journalist, entrepreneur, Romanist and lexicographer.
Life
Bélisle was a banker and journalist. From 1939 to 1949 he taught business French at Laval University. Bélisle was the founder of a printing school and chairman of several companies, including the Société du parler français au Canada (1953–1962).
Bélisle created a new type of dictionary in Francophone Canada. Before him there were the dictionaries from France and next to them collections of Quebecisms. Bélisle was the first to integrate 17,000 (marked as such) Quebecisms into a dictionary of metropolitan France. For this purpose, he chose the abbreviated version of the dictionary by Amédée Beaujean created by Émile Littré , the almost 100 year old Littré-Beaujean. The fact that he was successful even with this outdated dictionary showed the urgency of the dictionary type implemented.
Bélisle received the Prix de la langue française of the Académie française in 1958 . From 1974 he was a member of the Royal Society of Canada . The city of Québec has named a street after him.
Works
- Dictionnaire général de la langue française au Canada , Québec 1957 (1390 pages, previously published in fascicles), 1969, 2nd edition 1971, 1974; 4th edition 1979 ud T. Dictionnaire nord-américain de la langue française (1196 pages)
- Petit dictionnaire canadien de la langue française , Montréal 1969, 1979 (3000 canadianisms)
literature
- Claude Poirier, Entre dépendance et affirmation. Le parcours historique des lexicographes québécois, in: Les dictionnaires de la langue française au Québec. De la Nouvelle-France à aujourd'hui , ed. by Monique C. Cormier and Jean-Claude Boulanger, Montréal 2008, pp. 13–60
- Alain Rey, Dictionnaire amoureux des dictionnaires , Paris 2011 sv Québec
Web links
- Literature by and about Louis-Alexandre Bélisle in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- http://www.salic-slmc.ca/showpage.asp?file=org_serv_ling/ress_lexico/ouvrages_lexico/dicos_francais/1957_belisle&language=fr&updatemenu=false&noprevnext
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bélisle, Louis-Alexandre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian journalist, entrepreneur, Romance philologist and lexicographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Éloi |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 12, 1985 |
| Place of death | Quebec |