Mémoires de M1/M2

L'équipe d'enseignants-chercheurs du département des langues de l'ENS Paris-Saclay encourage particulièrement les mémoires en anglais de spécialité et didactique de l'anglais LANSAD (langues pour spécialistes d'autres disciplines). L'anglais de spécialité est « la branche de l'anglistique qui traite de la langue, du discours et de la culture des communautés professionnelles et groupes sociaux spécialisés anglophones et de l'enseignement de cet objet » (Petit, 2002 : 2).

Nous donnons ci-dessous quelques exemples de mémoires réalisés au département afin d'illustrer comment cette discipline de l'anglais de spécialité peut dialoguer avec la civilisation, l'analyse de discours, l'analyse de la FASP (fiction à substrat professionnel), la linguistique, la traduction ou encore la didactique.
 

DISCOURS SCIENTIFIQUE ET ACADEMIQUE

• Discursive aspects of popularisation texts in the field of earth sciences
• Writing the land. Specialised aspects of contemporary British geographers' discourses
• Stance and engagement in contemporary musicological research
• The description of experiments in organic chemistry: characterization of a specialized procedural text
• Discursive aspects of research articles in mathematics

DISCOURS DU DROIT

• The phraseology of the Irish Supreme Court. An attempt at characterisation.
• The Plain Language Movement and Scottish Law.

DISCOURS POLITIQUE

• The personalisation of politics: the campaign speeches of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin in the 2008 US presidential campaign.
• Discourse Accreditation Strategies and Dominant Speech: A Rhetorical and Linguistic Analysis of McCarthy's parliamentary committees.
• The political English of Irish parliamentary committee debates. A diachronic study
• The Commemoration of September 11th in the United States: Discursive analysis of a speech event.

DISCOURS DES ORGANISATIONS ET DISCOURS JOURNALISTIQUE

• Press releases and communication strategy at Monsanto: a rhetoric of diversion?
• Characterising the discourse of American think tanks. A genre analysis.
• Contribution to the characterization of the rhetorical strategy adopted in the press releases of an activist NGO, Greenpeace International.
• Contribution to a characterization of professional oaths in English.

DISCOURS DE L'ART

• An attempt to characterise the specialisation of English in the field of figure skating.
• An attempt to characterise the English language of cinema.
• Around the haute couture show: language practices, discourses and specialised actors.
   

• The representation of British political circles in professional fiction: specular, didactic and satirical dynamics.
• Towards a typology of the scientific substratum in the novels of Kathy Reichs.
• The diagnostic debate in the television series Dr. House. Characterization of a specialized oral genre.
• On the specialisedness of a profession-based fiction: the example of the police and crime series NCIS
   

• Syntactic aspects of English-language political editorials.
• Linguistic marks of evaluation in contemporary British opera criticism.
• Metaphors in the advertising discourse of the Apple company.
• A diachronic study of terms in English-language anthropological works dealing with Aboriginal peoples.

• Towards a protocol for the translation of medical research articles from English to French
• The SKOPOS theory and the translation of medical FASP
• A contrastive approach to specialised economic translation

• Project-based teaching in the LANSOD sector
• Analysis of the teaching approach of of six medical English textbooks.
• Analysis of the English language needs of French general practitioners using a questionnaire survey
• Using MOOCs to teach chemistry English: a case study at ENS Cachan
• Lansod needs analysis in music and musicology