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Virginie Iché
@virginieiche.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English Linguistics (Univ. Paul-Valéry Montpellier, France). Currently working on failed repair in mockumentary sitcoms & cringe humor.
Research interests: pragmatics, stylistics, multimodality, miscommunication & humor
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Colloque "Expressivity, Bodies and Language in the 21st century"organisé par Sandrine Sorlin (PR IUF, EMMA) et Julie Neveux (MCF HDR CELISO)
Quand ? 20 et 21 novembre 2025
Où ? salle des Colloques n°1 sur le site de Saint Charles 1.

Plus d'informations : expressivity.sciencesconf.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Tomorrow I'll be discussing the pragmatics of failed repair in mockumentary sitcoms at SAES 2025 in Toulouse. Looking forward to showing how we need a shift from an operational to a multimodal pragmatic construal of 'failed' repair.
June 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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🔍 Zoom sur l’atelier SSADA au congrès SAES 2025 : Transitions stylistiques et discursives 🧠🗣️

L’atelier de la SSADA explore les mutations du langage, des récits et des genres, entre littérature, numérique et discours politiques.

📅 Du 5 au 7 juin 2025 à Toulouse !
#SAES2025
May 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
RIP George Wendt. Forever Norm on Cheers!
A show full of brilliant miscommunications I had a hoot analyzing in “Cheerfully Misunderstanding Deixis on Screen: Coach is his (Nick)name and Misunderstanding Deixis is his Game”
doi.org/10.4000/tvse...
Loved the interactions between Coach and Normie ❤️
Cheerfully Misunderstanding Deixis on the Screen: Coach is his (Nic...
1. A Brief Introduction to Cheers “Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name. And they’re always glad you came. You wanna be where you can see our troubles are all the same. You wanna ...
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May 21, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Introducing my new project… Your Wrong (yourwrong.co.uk). It’s all about the language rules and judgements that appear in different forms of popular culture. Films, series, podcasts, music, books, even graffiti!

I’d love your help to find examples!
Your Wrong
yourwrong.co.uk
February 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM
🔉 Coming out soon(ish):
Cringe Humor on Screen and in Digital Media: Pragmatic Perspectives, coedited by @ccschn.bsky.social, Lynn Blin and I.
Can't wait!

link.springer.com/book/9783031...
Cringe Humor on Screen and in Digital Media
This book includes quantitative and qualitative analyses of large corpus of mediated interactions, from cringe humor on screen to online cringe humor.
link.springer.com
May 7, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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" Il nous manque plus de 70 enseignants-chercheurs " déplore Anne Fraïsse, présidente de l'Université Paul Valéry Montpellier.
«Il n’y a plus rien à gratter» : à Montpellier, une fac sous austérité budgétaire

A l’université Paul-Valéry, étudiants comme enseignants dénoncent le manque chronique de moyens et l’inégalité des dotations de l’Etat.

Reportage :
«Il n’y a plus rien à gratter» : à Montpellier, une fac sous austérité budgétaire
A l’université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, étudiants comme enseignants dénoncent le manque chronique de moyens et l’inégalité des dotations de l’Etat.
www.liberation.fr
May 5, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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⚡️ APPEL À TÉMOIGNAGES

Le CLASCHES a été informé de faits pouvant s'apparenter à du harcèlement sexuel, harcèlement moral et des agressions sexuelles qui auraient été commis par un professeur des universités en sociologie de la région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Nous avons besoin de réunir des témoignages
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April 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM
🎉 Yet another mind-blowing "EMMAncipons les savoirs" day: Trump’s rhetoric of bad faith, the underlying capitalism of #cottagecore, (eco)feminism & race and how to be an ally, & how to liven translation workshops up.
Slides: emmamontpellier.hypotheses.org/diffusion-de...
See you next year!
April 16, 2025 at 10:05 AM
⏰ Let's EMMAncipate knowledge tomorrow @ St Charles research center, Montpellier, France (pun intended).
April 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
📣 Next Friday!
EMMA scholars will tackle the Trump/Harris debate, nature on social media (#cottagecore), Canadian petroscapes, contemporary African-American lit & translating contemporary theater.
Plus, there will be a round table on female filmmakers & feminism in media.
Be there or be square!
Journée d'étude EMMAncipons les savoirs organisée par Anne Crémieux et Virginie Iché :
Quand ? le vendredi 11 avril 2025
Où ? site Saint-Charles 2 en salle Caryatides / Kouros.
April 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Missed EMMA's March 18 seminar with @larshinrichs.bsky.social on the characteristics and conditions of emergence of multiethnolects?
Good news! His book arrives in 2025 (check the CUP catalog in the next few months).
And in the meantime, watch his talk online!
www.canal-u.tv/chaines/emma...
“Cultural Contact and New Dialect Emergence in Large Cities: From Ethnolects to Multiethnolects”, Lars Hinrichs, University of Texas at Austin | Canal U
In at least two different locations, London and Toronto, diasporic Jamaican Creole has developed through four successive sociolinguistic stages. Drawing on findings from my research on Toronto Jamaica...
www.canal-u.tv
April 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Nous appelons à signer le manifeste du mouvement #StandUpForScience en France. Ce texte pose les bases de la suite du mouvement, il a déjà été signé par plus de 5500 personnes.
Partagez-le et signez-le massivement :
standupforscience.fr/tribune/
March 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
@emma-recherche.bsky.social & I are pleased to announce that @larshinrichs.bsky.social will present his latest research on "Cultural Contact and New Dialect Emergence in Large Cities: From Ethnolects to Multiethnolects" next Tuesday at 6pm (CET).
Join us: univ-montp3-fr.zoom.us/j/97293747730
March 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Victoire contre l'A69 et hommage à la résistance ! ✊

L'autoroute A69 vient d'être jugée illégale par le tribunal administratif de Toulouse en raison de son impact environnemental !

🖋️Notre communiqué : lessoulevementsdelaterre.org/victoire-con...

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February 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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There will be an online launch for the Journal of Language and Pop Culture on Friday (7 Feb) 1200-1300 UK time with an introduction from the editors and brief outlines of each chapter by their authors. All are welcome! LINK: shorturl.at/nrW1W
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February 3, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Online panel on language in fictional film and television on 19 February
February 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM