The (AQL - Quebec Linguistic Society) is an academic organization devoted to
the scientific study of human language, and is a
professional society for Francophone linguistic researchers in North America and beyond.
The AQL was formed in 1981. The first executive was formed by
Normand Beauchemin as president,
Henri Wittmann as vice-president, and
Robert Fournier as secretary-general.
Journal
The official journal of the AQL is the , an
academic journal which publishes
peer-reviewed
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articles reporting research in all the major subdisciplines of
linguistics, as well as book reviews and a variety of other communications. The first editor of the journal was
Henri Wittmann, under whose editorship, which extended over almost twenty years, the journal published some of the major research results on
Quebec French
Quebec French (french: français québécois ), also known as Québécois French, is the predominant variety of the French language spoken in Canada. It is the dominant language of the province of Quebec, used in everyday communication, in educa ...
. ''RQLTA'' is the only North-American research journal in linguistics that publishes its articles exclusively in French.
Annual conference
The AQL holds an annual
linguistics conference every year on alternating campuses throughout Quebec and French Canada, usually in conjunction with
ACFAS.
[By-Laws of the Association, Annex VII, in: ''Revue québécoise de linguistique théorique et appliquée'', vol. 10, no 2, 1991, pp. 51-52.]
See also
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Canadian French
Canadian French (french: français canadien) is the French language as it is spoken in Canada. It includes Varieties of French#Canada, multiple varieties, the most prominent of which is Quebec French, Québécois (Quebec French). Formerly ''Can ...
Footnotes
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Linguistic societies
Organizations based in Quebec