Instructor in French
College Lecturer at Wadham and University Colleges

Address    Language Centre, 12 Woodstock Road,
                   Oxford, OX2 6HT
Email          michael.abecassis@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk

Department Information
Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages (Sub-Faculty of French)
www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/french

Dr Michael Abecassis, MA status (DEA Grenoble; MLitt St And).

Research Interests
Applied linguistics, sociolinguistics and grammar.

Teaching
French language (grammar, essay, discourse).

Selected Publications

• '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
• '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
• 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)
  

Links
Dr Abecassis's Modern Languages Faculty Webpage