Mairi-Louise McLaughlin

Mairi-Louise McLaughlin is a Professor in the Department of French at the University of California, Berkeley, with affiliated appointments in the Departments of Linguistics and Italian Studies. Her research bridges French/Romance Linguistics and Translation Studies, focusing on language contact, media linguistics, and the sociolinguistic implications of news translation.

• Affiliations: Department of French (primary), Linguistics, Italian Studies
• Research Themes: Language contact, translation effects, historical media analysis, syntactic borrowing

Her recent collaborative projects examine contemporary news translation, 17th-century news discourse, and creative translation endeavors. She has edited major reference works including The Oxford Handbook of the French Language (2024) and Historical and Sociolinguistic Approaches to French (2024). Her digital edition of François-Urbain Domergue's Journal de la langue françoise (2022) demonstrates her commitment to digital humanities approaches.

McLaughlin's scholarly output reveals consistent engagement with:

• Language variation and change
• Syntactic borrowing mechanisms
• Media discourse analysis
• Historical translation practices
• Corpus-based methodologies
• Cultural reception of texts

She maintains active editorial roles and has published extensively on topics ranging from 18th-century press censorship to modern translation pedagogy.