General information
Full professor since 2004.
https://agnes-celle.github.io/
Research areas
Semantics, pragmatics, contrastive linguistics
I work at the interface between semantics and pragmatics. My main research interest is in the Tense Aspect Modality Evidentiality categories, in English and French, from a contrastive and typological perspective. I have worked extensively on the expression of surprise and on mirativity. More recently I have become interested in non canonical questions and in the connection between modality and speech acts.
Teaching
- Master 1 : Crosslinguistic comparison
- Master 2 : Semantics and Pragmatics
- Agrégation externe option C : les interrogatives
PhD dissertations supervised
- Emmanuel Baumer, Le nom propre et l’anaphore nominale : étude comparée des chaînes de référence en français et en anglais. Defense 2012. Position : Professeur agrégé.
- Mateusz Białas, Le discours politique de Nicolas Sarkozy : rhétorique et mise en scène, co-dir. with A. Kacpzrak, U. of Warsaw. Defense 2014. Position : MCF U. of Białystok.
- Charles Bonnot, Le discours des documentaires musicaux – de Robert Johnson à LCD Soundsystem. Defense 2015. Position : MCF U. Sorbonne Nouvelle.
- Myriam Boulin, Temporal deixis and Anaphora in English and Mandarin Chinese : a contrastive study of now and then and their Mandarin equivalents, co-dir. with M-C. Paris. Defense 2015. Position : PRAG U. Paris 1.
- Maud Pélissier, Effets d’entraînements explicites et implicites sur l’acquisition de la syntaxe de l’anglais par des apprenants francophones : étude en potentiels évoqués, co-dir. with E. Ferragne. Defense 2018. Position : MCF U. de Paris.
- Laura Ascone, La radicalisation à travers l’expression des émotions sur internet, co-dir. with J. Longhi, U. de Cergy. Defense 2018. Position : Postdoc at CNRS / EHESS.
- Antonina Bondarenko, Verbless and zero-predicate sentences, an English and Russian contrastive corpus study, doctoral contract of Université Paris Diderot, ED 132, co-direction with Christine Bonnot (INALCO), Defense le 13 December 2021. Position : MCF à l’U. de Caen, CRISCO.
- Léo Muelle, Discours et technographismes sur les réseaux sociaux : identité, sociabilité et visibilité, Etude français-anglais, co-direction with Marie-Anne Paveau, Université Paris 13, PhD fellowship at PLEIADE, Paris 13. Defense 28 November 2022. Position : ATER at Sorbonne Paris Nord.
- Carmelo-Alessandro Basile, Modality in Contact : Necessity and Obligation in New Englishesh, international doctoral contract of Université de Paris, co-direction with Debra Ziegeler, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle; structure d’accueil secondaire: National University of Singapore, thesis referent Bao Zhiming. Defense 21 November 2023. Position : MCF Sorbonne Nouvelle. Best paper award for Post-Doc researcher at SLE Conference, Helsinki 2024.
- Cameron Morin, Social meaning in Construction Grammar : double modals in dialects of English, doctoral contract of Université Paris Diderot, ED 132, co-direction with Graeme Trousdale, Université d’Edimbourg. Defense 28 November 2023. Position : MCF, Université Paris Cité.
- Efrat Levant, What is this, sarcasm? Or is it just me? – a study of sarcastic questions. Defense 13 December 2024
PhD dissertations in progress
- Natacha Marjanovic, 2nd year, L’expression linguistique de la colère dans les discours activistes en ligne : comparaison des féministes et masculinistes sur les médias sociaux, CDSN, co-direction with Laure Lansari, Université de Picardie Jules Verne.
- Michele Cardo : 1st year, Question sequences in digital monologic discourse: A French-English comparative study, doctoral contract ED 622.
Publications
- [hal-04408272] The epistemic conditional in polar questions as an argumentative strategyby ano.nymous@ccsd.cnrs.fr.invalid (Agnès Celle) on 29 November 2024 at 9h52
Abstract This paper accounts for the epistemic use of the conditional in polar questions in French. It is argued that polar questions modalised by […]
- [hal-04794470] Question Sequences and Salience in TED Talksby ano.nymous@ccsd.cnrs.fr.invalid (Michele Cardo) on 20 November 2024 at 20h26
Salience is often used in linguistics to refer to the importance given to a certain part of a discourse such as a word, phrase, or grammatical […]
- [hal-04778844] Modal Verbs in Question Sequences in English TED Talksby ano.nymous@ccsd.cnrs.fr.invalid (Michele Cardo) on 12 November 2024 at 19h17
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- [hal-04778833] Question Sequences as Discourse Units in TED talks,by ano.nymous@ccsd.cnrs.fr.invalid (Michele Cardo) on 12 November 2024 at 19h10
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