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Philippe Humbert

Postdoctoral researcher

+41 26 305 71 64
philippe.humbert@unifr.ch

& research assistant with the Centre for Foreign Language Didactics (editor-in-chief at www.cedile.ch)

Research domains

  • Politics and epistemology of language quantification, documentation and cartography

  • Didactics of foreign languages and multilingualism
  • Interactional sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and ethnography
  • Multilingualism and society in Switzerland
  • Francophonie and globalization
  • South Slavic languages in transnational contexts

PhD thesis project

(Dé)chiffrer les locuteurs : la quantification officielle des langues à l’épreuve des idéologies langagières en Suisse (submitted)
Research projects (contributor)
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Title
Behind the scenes of language quantification
Status
Completed
The purpose of this project is to conduct a detailed analysis on language census issues in Switzerland since the 19th century and to better understand the role this tool plays in the Swiss political landscape. This... more
Title
Counting languages: history, methods and politics of population censuses
Status
Completed
This literature review aims to present an overview of scientific research on the social, political and linguistic issues of language census by analysing international works conducted in various sociopolitical and... more
Title
Language questions and statistical surveys
Status
Completed
In collaboration with the Federal Statistical Office (FSO)In 2010, the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) began conducting an annual population census. The data are mainly gathered from registers of residents, with... more
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Publications