Units

LaDisco : Center of research in linguistics

Person in charge of the Unit : Oui

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

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: implementing language policy in urban heteroglossic schools

This project sets out to describe and understand how teachers reconcile the irreconcilable: it explores how teachers in heteroglossic urban schools implement linguistic policies predicated on a monoglossic view of education, social mobility and society. In particular it analyses (1) how teachers articulate a monolingual policy; (2) if and to what extent teachers are responsive to linguistic diversity; and (3) which conditions facilitate these articulations and responses.