Jim Walker
Maître de Conférences en Linguistique Anglaise
Département d'Etudes du Monde Anglophone
Faculté des Langues
Université Lumière Lyon 2

Contact me: Jim.Walker@univ-lyon2.fr

 

RESEARCH

TEACHING 2011-2012

I will be on sabbatical leave for the second half of this year - the classes in smaller print won't be offered this year

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES

Principaux thèmes de recherche

  • Sociolinguistics of English, particularly the verb system
  • Historical sociolinguistics, standardisation
  • Non-standard morphology
  • Language and politics

                    List of recent publications, CV

                    Member of the CRTT

                    Member of the Editorial Board and webmestre of SEPTET

                    Member of the SAES

                    Sociolinguistics (Third year)

                    Phonology (Third year)

                    History of English (Third year)

                    Introduction to Linguistics (1st year)

                    M2 direction de recherche. Voir page dédiée

                    Structures of English (1st year)

                    Written Translation (Second year)

                    Written Translation (Third year)

                    M1 SEMINAR: The standardisation of English

                     

                    Co-Directeur du Département des Etudes du Monde Anglophone

                     

                    Responsable de la Filière Bi-Disciplinaire Anglais/Scandinave (ouverte rentrée 2011)

                     

                    Responsable de l'échange ERASMUS avec l'Université de Southampton

                     

                    Membre élu du CEVU (Conseil des Etudes et de la Vie Universitaire)

                     

                    Membre du Bureau du CEVU

                     

                    Membre élu du Conseil du Département

                     

                    Membre du bureau SNESUP Lyon 2

                     

                     

                     

                     
                    OTHER BITS AND BOBS which I don't have time to update...

                    Web resources (not related to my courses)

                    Linguistics in the press (nothing there at the moment)

                    LINKS TO LINGUISTICS RESOURCES ON THE NET

                    1. GENERAL INTRODUCTIONS TO LINGUISTICS

                    2. SOCIOLINGUISTICS

                    3. PHONETICS

                    4. LINGUISTICS IN THE PRESS

                    GENERAL INTRODUCTIONS TO LINGUISTICS

                    What is linguistics/phonetics?

                    Lexicon of Linguistics

                    SOCIOLINGUISTICS

                    PHONETICS

                    IPA Homepage

                    A Course in Phonetics: Vowels and Consonants

                    Online phonetics course (U of Lausanne, Switzerland; translated from French)

                    The vocal tract

                    Speech organs (great graphics; includes downloadable QuickTime movie of x-ray speech)

                    X-Ray film database for speech research (Amazing x-ray videos of people talking)

                    Vocal cords in action: five still photos

                    Vocal cords vibrating

                    Movement of articulators

                    The distinctive vowel sounds of British and American English (click to hear the sounds)

                    Respiration and airstream mechanisms
                     

                    LINGUISTICS IN THE PRESS