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Mairi McLaughlin is a Professor in the Department of French and an Affiliated Member of the Departments of Linguistics and Italian Studies at UC Berkeley. She specializes in French/Romance Linguistics and Translation Studies, having published extensively on language contact in French Romance and language media, with a focus on journalistic literary translation. Her specific interests lie in the area of language variation and change, particularly the use of reported speech and its linguistic effects in news translations. Mairi has authored several significant works, including 'Syntactic Borrowing in Contemporary French: Linguistic Analysis of News Translation' (2011) and 'La Presse française historique: Histoire d’un genre et histoire de la langue' (2021). She is also co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of French Language (2024) and 'Historical Sociolinguistic Approaches to French' (2024). Currently, Mairi is engaged in collaborative projects incorporating both quantitative and qualitative research methods that examine contemporary news translation and the historical development of the French press in America during the long nineteenth century.
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