UNIVERSITY of LYON II

FACULTY OF LANGUAGES

Diana M. Lewis

Faculty of Languages, Department of English Studies

Université Lumière Lyon 2, Faculté des Langues, 74 rue Pasteur, 69365 Lyon Cedex 07.

Associate Professor of English Linguistics
Departmental Erasmus exchange coordinator

Research group: Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (DDL), UMR5596

DDL, Institut des Sciences de l'Homme ,14 avenue Berthelot, 69363 Lyon Cedex 07.

Recent publications and papers

Teaching 2010-11

Undergraduate 2nd year

• Linguistics (BV Group 'AnglaisS4Ling')

Undergraduate 3rd year

• Lexicology
• Cognitive grammar option
• Translation
• Syntax
• Sociolinguistics

Postgraduate

• M1 Translation
• M2 LTMT Corpus Linguistics option

Research

Main research interests:

• Corpus-based analysis of variation and change in English: usage-based grammaticalization and semantic change.
• Directionals in English
• Discourse connectivity
• Construction Grammar
• CMC and the circulation of discourse

Professional associations:

• SAES (Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur)
• AFLiCo (French Association for Cognitive Linguistics)
• SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea)

Board member, French Association for Cognitive Linguistics.

Co-editor of journal CogniTextes.

Member of the TRAJECTOIRE research project ('Towards a typology of motion events in the languages of the world' ).