Émilie Aussant - English version

Current position

CNRS Researcher (Linguistics)

President of the Société d'Histoire et d'Épistémologie des Sciences du Langage (SHESL) website

Academic degrees

2016, Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Université Paris Diderot (P7)
2005, PhD in Indian Studies, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (P3)
2001, MPhil in Indian Studies, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (P3)
2000, BA in Anthropology, Université de Bordeaux 2
1999, MA in Linguistics, Université de Bordeaux 3

Areas of research

1) Main topics studied in the area of Sanskrit scholarly disciplines dealing with language (Vyākaraṇa “Grammar”, Mīmāṃsā “Exegesis”, Nyāya “Dialectics”, Alaṁkāra “Poetics”, principally):

Referential semantics
Representations of the object ‘language’
Translation (representations and practices)
Manifestations of normativity and subjectivity
Classification of words

2) Transfers of descriptive models (‘Extended Grammars’)

Activities and publications

See French Version