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BIOGRAPHY

Birth 30 December 1949 (70 years old)

Saint-Denis (93)

Nationality French

Activity Linguist, lexicologist, author, editorial director

FURTHER INFORMATION

Worked for University of Cergy-Pontoise

Radio activity Language columnist (Radio France, RCF, RFI)

Thesis Director Bernard Quemada

Website: www.jeanpruvost.com

Awards

Commander of the Palmes académiques (2009)

Officer of Arts and Letters (2013)

Jean Pruvost, born on December 30, 1949 in Saint-Denis, is a lexicologist and historian of the French language. He taught lexicology and lexicography at the University of Cergy-Pontoise (95) where, as a university professor, he directed the Master's degree in Language Sciences and the CNRS laboratory Lexiques Dictionnaires Informatique. Founder in 1994 of the annual Journée des dictionnaires, an international meeting of lexicologists and lexicographers, Editorial Director of Honoré Champion since 2009, author of about 800 publications, he has been giving weekly or daily radio broadcasts since 2000. Awarded the Académie française in 2006 for Les Dictionnaires français, outils d'une langue et d'une culture, and in 2019 with the Grande Médaille de la Francophonie, Jean Pruvost, who is also Director of Etudes de linguistique appliquée and a great collector of dictionaries, is one of the leading figures in the history of the French language.

Biography

Youth
Born in Saint-Denis, he spent his primary and secondary school in Vichy where his father and mother, both shorthand typing teachers, were appointed in 1949. His father, an Esperanto activist and author of a stenography, taught him stenography, dactylography and Esperanto before he entered secondary school. The strict education he received as well as these three experiences, phonetic transcription for the first, letters at the fingertips for the second, and for the third, artificial morphology close to Latin and European languages, even before the discovery of foreign languages, contributed according to his point of view to his affirmed taste for languages and literature. Seven years at the conservatory also enabled him to join a local orchestra, Les Barycentres, determining his interest in guitar.

University education
In 1967, he entered the University of Clermont-Ferrand to study Modern Letters and, in 1970, went to work for three months in the United States, thus confirming his interest in the English language while remaining a student in Letters. Coming from a family of teachers, he soon wanted to join the French National Education system. So, even before finishing his studies, he worked as a day supervisor in Saint-Eloy-les-Mines in 1970, then in 1971 he passed the PEG Lettres Histoire Géographie exam in technical education, which led him to the Paris region. He got married in 1973 and three children were born from this first union, who were teachers or researchers. He then began a doctorate under the direction of Professor Bernard Quemada, director of the Trésor de la langue française and dean of the University of Paris XIII. He defended his doctorate in 1981 with a thesis on the subject of onomasiological dictionaries, dealing with synonymy and analogy.

From 1975 to 1993
From 1975 to 1980, he was Master and Teaching Advisor at ENNA (Paris), and from 1981 to 1983, Head Inspection in Letters. He passed the National Education Inspector's examination in 1983 and was appointed to the Essonne region. In 1990, he was appointed Director of the Essonne Teacher Training College, and from 1991 to 1992, Director of the IUFM Center of the Versailles Academy.

From 1993 to 2016
After passing the competitive examination to become Master of Language Sciences Conferences at the University of Cergy-Pontoise in 1993, joining the university and, while teaching, he was successively Director of the Department of Letters and Humanities and Vice President, with responsibility for the Documentation Commission. In 2000, he received his Habilitation to direct research in the field of lexicology, lexicography and the history of the French language.

The same year, he was elected Professor of Universities, in language sciences, and he was appointed Vice-President for the University Life Council, before taking over the direction of the Master's degree in language sciences in 2002. In 2002, he also became director of a CNRS laboratory dedicated to dictionaries and lexicons. In 2007, he was appointed member of the Conseil National Universitaire, then reached the last step of the exceptional class in 2011, before becoming Professor Emeritus in 2016. In 2011, Jean Pruvost married Marinette Blot in second wedding. In 2020, he supervised the last of his hundred theses. The linguists of the University of Cergy-Pontoise decided in 2017 to give his name to the laboratory already renamed Lexiques, Textes, Discours, Dictionnaires.

Other academic and institutional functions
He is also requested for various functions related to his recognized French langage specialty. In 1998, he was elected Vice-President of the Groupe d'Étude d'Histoire de la Langue Française (GEHLF), which was then attached to the École Normale Supérieure, the GEHLF being the very first research centre with which he was affiliated. In 2000, he was elected President of the Association des sciences du langage, which brings together the majority of linguists in France. He then organized a symposium at the Sorbonne which led to the publication of a report: ''Mais que font les linguistes? Les Sciences du langage vingt ans après''.

In 2000 he became a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Lexicography, Oxford University Press, and in 2001 he was also appointed Member of the International Scientific Committee of the journal Mots, Palabras Words led by the Dipartimento di Scienze del Linguaggio e Letterature Straniere of the University of Milan.

In 2007, he was appointed to the National Council of Universities as a specialist in lexicology and lexicography. In 2013, he became a Member of the College of Education and Higher Education in charge of Terminology at the French langage enrichment commission.

A member of the Association Défense de la langue française since the 2000s, he was asked to be its vice-president in 2016, and was then elected and re-elected in 2018 in this position.

In 2015, in friendship with Jérôme Robert, lexicographer and grandson of Paul Robert, he accepted to be President of the Association of the friends of Paul Robert. Finally, in 2016, he is Honorary President of Eurodictée, the dictation of the cities of which Rachid Santaki is the founder and organizer. In 2019, he was elected member of the Academy of Sciences, Belles Lettres and Arts of Angers.

Editorial Directions
It was at the beginning of the 20th century that he was entrusted with various editorial directions.

For the Nouveau Littré
From 2000 to 2002, he was first co-director with Gaston Gross of the Cahiers de lexicologie founded by Bernard Quemada, then from 2003 to 2005, he was appointed Scientific Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Nouveau Littré published by Éditions Garnier.

For Éditions Honoré Champion
In January 2009, he took his first steps in the publishing world by becoming the Editorial Director of Éditions Honoré Champion, a publishing house specializing in scholarship, publishing between 120 and 150 books per year in the humanities, literature and language.

Before being asked to become the editorial director in charge of all the publishing activities of the house, Jean Pruvost had already been co-director of the Lexica, mots et dictionnaires collection with Bernard Quemada since 1999. In 2020, this collection included 37 volumes on etymology, historical semantics, dialectology, and Romance lexicography.

Jean Pruvost was keen to create two additional collections in 2010, Champion les dictionnaires and Champion les mots, in line with his favourite field, words and dictionaries.

The first collection, Champion les dictionnaires, still active in 2020, was designed according to his wishes to offer precise information on different subjects from specialists, whether it be rugby, the "desire to read", classic French writers, thinkers, cycling, tennis, Jean Renoir, Georges Brassens, or even the School and its words or Life in the countryside.

The second collection, Champion Les mots, is presented as a lexical journey to the heart of a specific theme, by exploring dictionaries and literature from the 16theto the 21st ecentury. This collection will stop in 2015 at 21 evolumes, with ten volumes of which he is the author.

For Klincksieck and les Belles Lettres : les Études de linguistique appliquée
In 2010, Jean Pruvost was appointed Director of the scientific journal Études de linguistique appliquée, offering four issues per year, published by Klincksieck and Belles Lettres, as well as, digitally, by Cairn. In fact, as a member of the journal's Board of Directors since 2000, Jean Pruvost has followed in the footsteps of Robert Galisson, a long-time teacher and friend. Each of the 40 issues published since 2010 is preceded by a semantic and lexicological preface written by him.

For Éditions Bordas
From 2007 to 2010, he directed the collection of Bordas Dictionaries, pocket and large format, dictionaries of synonyms, rhymes, difficulties of the language, and a dictionary of quotations which he authored.

Journée des dictionnaires
In 1994, Jean Pruvost created the Journée des dictionnaires, which takes place every year in March during the Semaine de la langue française, with the exception of its cancellation during the March 2020 confinement. By welcoming specialists in the field each year on different themes, this Day has become an eagerly awaited event for professionals and amateurs who are passionate about the lexicon and its study. Initially held at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, it has been held in Paris since 2013, notably in partnership with the Alliance française. It is still sponsored by the Délégation générale à la langue française et aux langues de France.

Mots en musique
In 2016 and then 2017, he launched a new event in the framework of the Alliance Française, entitled Mots en musique, bringing together comedians, actors, linguists and musicians. It was the first time he exposed himself on the guitar with songs of his own ("Avec mes dictionnaires...", "On pourrait la comparer...").

Language Chronicles
Jean Pruvost is an assiduous practitioner of the particular genre of language chronicles, whether written, radio or, more rarely, television, and some 5,000 chronicles have been given over the past thirty years. The very first ones were written in 1980 for Miroir de l'histoire. They were then broadcast on the radio in 2005 with Mathieu Vidard on France Inter, before expanding in 2010, a good part of which was free of charge. In 2020, he has just over 4000 radio chronicles.

Written Chronicles
They are sometimes weekly for La Croix (since 2016), for L'Est Républicain with "Le mot de la semaine" (2006-2007), for La Revue du Secrétariat et de la comptabilité with "De la sémantique à l'orthographe" and "Rétrovocabulaire" (1979-1983), and for the Figaro littéraire website, in the language section maintained by Alice Develey, with "Mots de tous les âges" (2017-2019).

Sometimes monthly for Femmes actuelles Jeux with "Mots à la loupe" and then "Les dicos insolites" (since 2017), for Les timbrés de l'orthographe with "Les timbrés du dictionnaire" (2014-2016), for Miroir de l'histoire with "les noms au passé" (1979-1981) ;

Sometimes still quarterly for Défense de la langue française with "De dictio(n)naires en dictionnaires" (since 2010); for the Revue de l'AMOPA with "À mots découverts, au cœur de l'éducation" (since 2011).

Radio Chronicles
When they are daily, he willingly presents them as a joyful asceticism. This is the case of the chronicles given on France Bleu, since 2016, with "Les Noms de lieux", then "Les Mots de l'actu", and "Les mots de l'été", or for RCF, since 2011, with "Un mot, un jour", associated with the "grand invité" at the start of the 2020 season. Finally, for Mouv' on Radio France, he became from 2015 to 2018 "Doc Dico", explaining "Les mots du rap", sometimes daily and sometimes weekly.

The weekly chronicles began with those given at France Inter from 2005 to 2008 in the morning show with Mathieu Vidard, "Trésor de mots", then with Sylvie Larocca. From 2011 to 2018, on RCF Lyon, with Lucie Baverel and Renaud Volle, it was "Rendez-vous avec l'histoire des mots". For Radio Curie, in 2014-2015, it was the words of cancer. Finally, since June 2020, for RFI, in the program De vive(s) voix, directed by Pascal Paradou, is given "Mots à mots".

Also held a bi-monthly chronicle, "Mot pour mot", on Canal Académie from 2008 to 2012.

TV Chronicles
They have been rare and always weekly, with notably "Mots et expressions de l'été" on TF1 in 2017, at the end of the Journal télévisé, "Voyage dans nos dictionnaires" for VO TV in 2003, and, for TV5, in "Trouvez le mot juste" in 1989 with Jean-Pierre Foucault. Since October 2021, the chronicle "Version originale" where Jean Pruvost, questioned by Jérôme Cathala about Anglicism, offers translationsin elegant French on France Info Télé, on Saturdays and Sundays.

Honours and Awards
- 2000: Logos Prize by the Collège de France for Dictionaries and New Technologies (PUF).

- 2008: French Academy Prize for Les dictionnaires français, outils d'une langue et d'une culture (Ophrys).

- 2019: Grande Médaille de la Francophonie, from the Académie française.

- 2019 : Émile Littré Prize, Cénacle européen francophone.

Décorations
- 2009 Commander of the Order of Academic Palms.

- 2013 Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Books
Of his 800 written publications, journal articles and contributions to textbooks such as the school collection Textes et méthodes, published by Nathan (1996-1999) from the sixth to the third grade, the Méthode d'orthographe Hachette (1985) and collective works such as Histoire de la langue française (1945-2000) published by the CNRS in 2000, and Le Grand livre de la langue française published by Seuil in 2003, only the full-fledged books are included below.

L'Ecole et ses mots, Editions Honoré Champion, 2021.

La story de la langue française, ce que le français doit à l’anglais et vice versa, Éd. Tallandier, 2020.

Les mots qui ont totalement changé de sens (en collab. avec A. Develey), Coll. Mots & Caetera, Le Figaro littéraire, 2020.

L’histoire de la langue française, un vrai roman, Coll. Mots & Caetera, Le Figaro littéraire, 2020.

Les Secrets des mots, Librairie Vuibert, 2019.

Pleins feux sur nos dictionnaires, en 2500 citations et 700 auteurs du XVIe au XXIe siècle, Honoré Champion, 2018.

Expressions et proverbes disparus de Pierre Larousse (en collab. avec B. Cerquiglini), Larousse, 2018.

Nos ancêtres les Arabes, Ce que notre langue leur doit, JC Lattès, 2017.

Mots, expressions et proverbes oubliés (en collab. avec M. Mettra), Éd. Garnier et Le Monde, 2017.

Les mots disparus de Pierre Larousse, (en collab. avec B. Cerquiglini), Larousse, 2017.

La Guitare, « profusions d’harmonie, contre mon ventre dans mes bras », Honoré Champion, 2015.

La Bière, (en collab. avec B. Meyer), Honoré Champion, 2015.

Le Dico des dictionnaires, Histoire et anecdotes, JC. Lattès, 2014.

Le Champagne, « une pluie d’étoiles à l’envers… », Honoré Champion, 2014.

À vélo ou à bicyclette, nom d’un tour, Honoré Champion, 2014.

Le Jardin « qui repose l’œil sans l’égarer », Honoré Champion, 2013.

Le Cirque, « féerie… qui me jette dans un état d’émotion étrange », Honoré Champion, 2013.

Journal d’un amoureux des mots, Larousse, 2013.

Les Élections ou comment « s’eslire quelque manière de vivre » ?, Honoré Champion, 2012.

Le Train « grâce auquel l’homme n’a plus rien à envier aux poissons et aux oiseaux », (en collab. avec A. Rozet), Honoré Champion, 2012.

Le Fromage « qui doit tout son mérite aux outrages du temps… », Honoré Champion, 2012.

Le Chocolat « qui favorise la paresse et dispose à ces voluptés qu’inspire une vie langoureuse » ?, (en collab. avec N. Cholewka), Honoré Champion, 2011.

Le Chat, Honoré Champion, 2011.

Le Loup, Honoré Champion, 2010.

La Mère, (en collab. avec S. Soufi), Honoré Champion, 2010.

Le Vin, Honoré Champion, 2010.

Alphabet des mots du cancer, tome 3, Institut Merck Serono, 2009.

Dictionnaire de la Chine, la Chine des dictionnaires (dir.), Éditions des Silves, 2008.

Alphabet des mots du cancer, tome 2 (en collab. avec Y. Jaulin), Institut Merck Serono, 2008.

Dictionnaire du Japon, le Japon des dictionnaires (dir.), Éditions des Silves, 2007.

Dictionnaire de citations de la langue française, Bordas, 2007.

Alphabet des mots du cancer, tome 1 (en collab. avec M.-Cl. Sicard), Institut Merck Serono, 2007.

Les Dictionnaires français : outils d’une langue et d’une culture, Ophrys, 2006, Prix de l’Académie française.

Le Nouveau Littré (dir.), Éditions Garnier, 2004.

La dent de lion, la Semeuse et le Petit Larousse, Biographie du Petit Larousse, Larousse, 2004.

Les néologismes, Coll. Que sais-je ? n° 3674, PUF, 2003.

Pierre Larousse, Du Grand Dictionnaire au Petit Larousse (dir.), Coll. Lexica, Honoré Champion, 2002.

Les dictionnaires de langue française, Collection Que sais-je ? n° 3622, PUF, 2002.

Les dictionnaires de langue française, (dir.), Honoré Champion, 2001.

Dictionnaires et nouvelles technologies, PUF, 2000, Prix International Logos.

L’Histoire de mon nom, Autoédition, 1989.

Travail et société, TPF, Éd. Bertrand Lacoste, 1988.

Vive les sportifs (en collab. avec V. Bizot), Paris, Dicojeux, Hachette, 1987.

Des jours et des saisons (en collab. avec V. Bizot), Dicojeux, Paris, Hachette, 1987.

Cherchons notre chemin (en collab. avec V. Bizot), Dicojeux, Paris, Hachette, 1987.

À la maison (en collab. avec V. Bizot), Dicojeux, Paris, Hachette, 1987.

Bouquinons et bibliothéquons, Paris, Istra, 1986.

Lectures silencieuses XXe s., Paris, Éd. Bertrand Lacoste, 1985.

Cent gammes et cent dictées sténographiques inédites, Textes et dessins, Paris, Éd. Bertrand-Lacoste, 1984.

Lectures silencieuses XVIIIe et XIXe s., Paris, Éd. Bertrand Lacoste, 1982.

Les mots et moi, Éd. Casteilla, 1981.

Sites
Site : www.jeanpruvost.com

Chaîne sur Youtube : Histoires de mots :

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