- Jeanne Martinet
Jeanne Martinet (born 1920), a recognized
semiotician , is proprietor of a semiotics school. Her husband was the eminent linguistAndré Martinet (1908-1999). In 1973 in Paris, Jeanne Martinet published the book "Clefs pour la sémilogie", which has been translated into numerous languages. In 1993, she co-authored with her husband the volume "Mémoires d'un linguiste".Although her husband was Research Director of the
International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA ) from 1946 to 1948, she became involved withInterlingua only in 1997, when a group of interviewers includingAlix Potet spoke with the couple in their home. Jeanne Martinet participated in the Jubilee Interlingua Conference inPoland in 2001, the 8th Nordic Meeting inSweden in 2002, the 16th International Interlingua Conference inBulgaria in 2003, the 9th Nordic Meeting in Sweden in 2004, and the 17th International Interlingua Conference in Sweden in 2005.In 2002, she was elected President of the
Union Interlinguiste de France . The same year, she traveled toGuadaloupe to deliver the presentation "Créole et interlingua" at the conference of the International Society of Functional Linguistics. In 2005, she presented "L'interlingua et la linguistique fonctionnelle" to the society inHelsinki ,Finland .References
*"Interlingua pro linguistas". "Panorama in Interlingua", 2005, Issue 5.
External links
* [http://www.interlingua.com/historia/biographias/jeannemartinet.htm Historia de Interlingua: Communication Sin Frontiera. Biographia, Jeanne Martinet]
* [http://www.interlingua.com.fr/spip/ Union Interlinguiste de France]
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