Senior Lecturer in French
College Lecturer at Christ Church, University College and Wadham
 

Research

Michaël Abecassis's research interests include applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, grammar, French cinema and francophone culture.

Teaching

Michaël Abecassis teaches French language (discourse, essay writing, grammar and prose).

Publications

with Marcelline Block: French Cinema in Close-up: La vie d’un acteur pour moi (Dublin: Phaeton, 2015).

– chosen by American Library Journal as one of the five best Arts reference books of 2015!

with Gudrun Ledegen: Les Voix des Français Volume 1: à travers l'histoire, l'école et la presse, Collection: Modern French Identities, 93 (Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, 2010)

with Gudrun Ledegen: Les Voix des Français Volume 2: en parlant, en écrivant , Collection: Modern French Identities, volume 94 (Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, 2010)

The Representation of Parisian Speech in the Cinema of the 1930s, Modern French Identities, 33 (Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, 2005)

'The use of tense and mood in the dialogues of 1930s French films', Sintagma: Revista de Lingüística, 4 (2002), 39-55

'L’origine des indicateurs de style dans les dictionnaires français', La Banque de mots: Revue de terminologie française publiée par le Conseil International de la langue française, 64 (2002), 97-106

'A social study of address patterns in the dialogues of 1930s French films', Romanische Forschungen, 114, 3 (2002), 295-306

'Frequency and Saliency in a corpus of 1930s French films', Californian Linguistic Notes, Vol. XXVII, 2 (2002), 1-19

'A diachronic analysis of non-standard vocabulary in the dialogues of 1930s French films', Te Reo: Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand, 43 (2000), 21-37