Megane LESUISSE

Research Units

Affiliated Research areas

• Language typology; historical linguistics
• Attention, perception, action, consciousness
• Language learning and processing (first and second languages)

Keywords

• linguistic relativity
• language influence
• language learning
• language impact
• cardinal posture verbs
• spatial language
• L2 Motivation

Teaching areas

• English grammar
• Linguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Statistics applied to linguistics
• Morphology
• Phonetics

Summary

Mégane Lesuisse is an Associate Professor in English linguistics at the University Paris 8 Vincennes St Denis. Her research interests lie in cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics, and include the verbalisation and the conceptualisation of spatial events in French, English and Dutch, with a focus on the role of interaction and event canonicity for the influence of language on thought Her current projects involve eye-tracking, corpus linguistics and interactive experimental designs. She is also interested in the cognitive impact of those cross-linguistic differences and their consequences for second language learning and teaching. She is more broadly interested in the impact of language on our mind, especially through the lens of L2 motivational research for which she has already been involved in a Re:ERUA Project with the Universidad Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain). Another research project of hers concerns the cognitive impact of gender stereotypes in the English language.