EMMA (Études Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone)

In this talk, I draw on frameworks for the study of co-speech gesture developed in cognitive linguistics (e.g. Cienki 2022) to discuss the forms and functions of pointing and shrugging gestures in the

In this talk, I overview the broad assumptions and central ideas of the enactive approach to language, sketch the dialectical methodology that enables us to move from broad forms of participatory

This talk presents a sociopragmatic analysis of the inferences and emotional embodiment that emerge in an interview conducted by Oprah Winfrey with Caroline Darian, daughter of Giselle Pélicot, a

Les émotions sont au cœur du séminaire qui sera l’occasion de balayer l’apport de la psychologie à la compréhension de leurs interactions avec la cognition.

This lecture discusses the recent rhetorical fixation on blood within Donald Trump’s political discourse and the resonance of the term among his right-wing followers and supporters.

In at least two different locations, London and Toronto, diasporic Jamaican Creole has developed through four successive sociolinguistic stages. Drawing on findings from my research on Toronto

On distinguera cinq corps et cinq prises de corps par le langage. On en tirera des conséquences pour une conception du langage non comme simple instrument de communication mais comme milieu de

This talk aims to explore the development of a set of modal constructions of necessity and strong obligation, namely must, have to, (have) got to, gotta, need to, and better, in the contact variety

During this talk, I question the significance or relevance of using the different methodologies and epistemologies of the three “waves” of sociolinguistic research (following Eckert (2012)’s

In this presentation, I report the first large-scale corpus study of double modal usage in Australian and New Zealand Englishes, based on a multi-million-word corpus of geolocated automatic speech