University of Lyon2, Faculty of Languages

Diana M. Lewis

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Edited volume

New Media Language (edited with J. Aitchison). London: Routledge, 2003. [Contents]

Articles

forthcoming. 'Late Modern English Pragmatics and Discourse'. Alexander Bergs and Laurel J. Brinton (eds), Historical Linguistics of English: An international handbook. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK]). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

forthcoming. 'A discourse-constructional approach to the emergence of discourse connectives in English', Linguistics

2009. 'Markers of concession in a contrastive perspective: evidence from an English/French comparable corpus'. Corpus and Discourse - and Stuff: Papers in Honour of Karin Aijmer. Rhonwen Bowen, Mats Mobärg & Sölve Ohlander (eds.). Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis.

2008. (with Pierre J.L. Arnaud, Emmanuel Ferragne, et François Maniez) 'Adjective + Noun sequences in attributive or NP-final positions: observations on lexicalization' . Sylviane Granger and Fanny Meunier (eds), Phraseology : an interdisciplinary perspective, 111-125. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2007. 'From temporal to contrastive and causal: the emergence of connective after all'. In Agnès Celle and Ruth Huart (eds) Connectives as discourse landmarks, 89-99. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2006. 'Contrastive analysis of adversative relational markers using comparable corpora'. In K. Aijmer and A.-M. Simon-Vandenbergen (eds) Pragmatic Markers in Contrast, 139-153. Oxford: Elsevier.

2006. 'Discourse particle: a discourse-pragmatic category'. In K. Fischer (ed.) Approaches to Discourse Particles, 43-60. Oxford: Elsevier.

2005. 'Arguing in English and French asynchronous online discussion'. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (11), 1801-1818.

2005. 'Mapping adversative coherence relations in English and French'. Languages in Contrast 5(1), 33-48.

2005. 'Corpus comparables et analyse contrastive : l'apport d'un corpus français/anglais de discours politiques à l'analyse des connecteurs adversatifs'. In G. Williams (ed.) La Linguistique de corpus, 179-190. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes. Abstract

2004. 'Language, culture and the globalisation of discourse'. In H. Slavik (ed.) Intercultural Communication and Diplomacy, 57-67. Malta and Geneva: DiploFoundation.

2003. 'Rhetorical motivations for the emergence of discourse particles, with special reference to English of course'. In Ton van der Wouden, Ad Foolen and Piet Van de Craen (eds.) Particles (Belgian Journal of Linguistics vol. 16), 79-91. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [Abstract]

2003. ‘Polysemy and bleaching' (with J. Aitchison). In B. Nerlich, Z. Todd, V. Herman and D.D. Clarke (eds.) Polysemy: Flexible patterns of meaning in mind and language, 253-266. Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs 142. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

2003. 'Online news: a new genre?' In J. Aitchison and D.M. Lewis (eds.) New Media Language, 95-104. London: Routledge.

Reviews

2008. Review of Hélène Chuquet and Michel Paillard (eds). 2006. Causalité et contrastivité. Etudes de corpus. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes. Languages in Contrast 8 (1), 130-133.

2007. Review of A. Tyler and V. Evans, The Semantics of English Prepositions. Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Cognitive Linguistics vol. 18-1, 110-121.

2007. Review of Agnès Steuckardt and Aïno Niklas-Salminen (eds), Les marqueurs de glose. Langues et langage 12. Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Université de Provence, 2005. Revue Romane 42 (1), 174-176.

2003. Review of S. Jones, Antonymy: A Corpus-based Perspective. London: Routledge, 2002. Linguist vol. 14-3137.

Papers

2010. 'Information structure and the productive present-day English construction SAdv-S'. Sixth International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG-6), Charles University, Prague, 3-5 September.

2010. 'Discourse marking and information structure in English'. Panel Pragmatic and discourse-analytic approaches to English', IAUPE Conference 2010, University of Malta, Valetta,19-23 July.

2009. 'Position and scope in grammaticalization: some evidence from adverbial developments in English'. Invited talk, University of Göteborg, 15 December.

2009. 'On the evolution of the attitudinal SAdv-S construction in English'. International conference on Current Trends in Grammaticalization Research, Université de Groningen, Groningen, 8-9 octobre.

2009. 'Word order and the development of connective markers in English'. Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches to Text Structuring (LPTS09), ENS, Paris, 21-23 September.

2008. 'On the expression of directional motion events in present-day spoken English'. First Triennial Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE). Freiburg, 8-11 October, 2008.

2008. 'A discourse-constructional approach to the emergence of discourse connectives in English'. Fourth international symposium on New Reflections on Grammaticalization (NRG4), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 16-19 July, 2008.

2007. 'Etude quantitative de quelques expressions directionnelles en anglais britannique contemporain'. Journées Trajectoire 22-23 June, 2007. Institut des Sciences de l'Homme, Lyons.

2006. 'Les adverbes de phrase en -ly en anglais au XXIe siècle'. Centre de Recherche en Traduction et Terminologie (CRTT), Lyons, 13 February.

2005. With Pierre J.L. Arnaud, Emmanuel Ferragne and François Maniez: '[Adj+N] sequences in attributive or NP-final positions: observations on lexicality" Phraseology 2005: The many faces of Phraseology, Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), 13-15 October.

2005. 'Layering in some English sentence-adverbial constructions'. New Reflections on Grammaticalization 3 (NRG3), Santiago de Compostela, 17-20 July.

2005. 'From temporal to contrastive and causal: the emergence of polysemy in a modern English connective'. Conference on Connectives as Discourse Landmarks, University of Paris-7 Denis Diderot, Paris, 26-28 May, 2005.

2005. 'Comparable corpora for contrastive analysis' and 'Contrasting contrastive connectives: a French/English case study'. Invited talks, Seminar in Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics, University of Ghent, 26-28 April.

2005. 'Changement sémantique et décategorialisation dans l'histoire de quelques adverbes anglais'. Invited talk, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (DDL), Lyon, 7 March.

2004. 'Le rôle des corpus comparables dans la linguistique contrastive'. Centre de Recherche en Traduction et Terminologie (CRTT), Lyon, 15 January.

2003. 'Mapping adversative coherence relations in English and French'. Invited talk, International symposium on Languages in contrast - theories and methods for cross-linguistic studies, Göteborg, 5-6 December. Abstract

2003. 'Discourse-marking of concession and contrast in asynchronous online discussion'. Contribution to panel on 'Different approaches to spoken interaction' organized by Anna-Brita Stenström and Karin Aijmer,8th International Pragmatics Conference, Toronto, 13-18 July. [Abstract]

2003. 'Contrastive analysis of discourse marking using comparable corpora'. Contact Forum on Pragmatic Markers in Contrast, KVAB, Brussels, 22-23 May. [Abstract]

2003. 'Language, culture and political discourse'. Invited paper, International Conference on Intercultural Communication and Diplomacy, Malta, 20-23 February. [Abstract]


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