Robert Lafont, linguist, Occitan
site (AAR Archives Audiovisual Research) has put online an interview from 2006 with Robert Lafont, professor emeritus at the University Paul Valery of Montpellier. It is academic linguist by profession, polyglot, novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, medievalist. This versatile writer has published nearly a hundred books in Occitan and French. He has written on literary history and social history, linguistics and sociolinguistics, as well as socio-economic imbalances and the French territory of Europe.
In this interview, Robert Lafont discusses his works devoted to Occitan literature, medieval and baroque work of Frederic Mistral, Provencal writer Nobel Prize for Literature 1904. He also discusses the topogenesis a true philosophy of time and linguistics praxématique which reformulates the grammatical approach of language to try to understand the processes by which to produce meaning.
http://www.archivesaudiovisuelles.fr/FR/_video.asp?id=760&ress=2518&video=100096&format=68
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