Units

LaDisco : Center of research in linguistics

This Center groups linguists representing the main trends in contemporary linguistics. Research conducted within the Center is organised around four main axes: Language & Cognition, Morphology & Syntaxe, Semantics & Pragmatics and Sociolinguistics & Discours analysis.The first axis, Language & Cognition, highlights the cognitive correlate of linguistic phenomena, using empirical methods from cognitive sciences and experimental and clinical psychology. The Semantics and Pragmatics axis focuses on the interface between conventional meaning and its use in contexte, in close interaction with philosophy of language and mind, but also informed by experimental studies. The Morphology and Syntax axis encourages an in-depth study of linguistic structures, with approaches ranging from French linguistics to Chomskian generatistivism, and including cognitive linguistics. The last axis, Sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis, studies language in its context of social use and is based on the analysis of corpora as well as on methods derived from sociology or ethnography.

Projetcs

Canoniser les Sept Sages

La compréhension du cycle des Sept Sages en tant qu’objet complexe en vue d’une inscription durable dans le canon de la littérature français médiévale; et déterminer les critères distinctifs de l’histoire littéraire qui ont contribué à minorer l’importance de ce monument littéraire.

Co-promotrice : Yasmine FoehrJanssens (University of Geneva)