Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Cultural Identities and Languages for Special Purposes

Scientific focuses of the laboratory :

CICLaS's role is to bring together the research of linguists at Dauphine, by convening teachers/researchers from the four disciplines represented (English, German, Spanish and French as a foreign language) around common research problems.
Research is centred around two areas: civilisation and languages for special purposes teaching methods.
Civilisation research is engaged in a reflection on multiculturalism and transculturalism in the developed world, with a particular focus on their impacts in the fields of industry, business and the globalised economy.
On the one hand, research into languages for special purposes is centred around discourse analysis in the fields of the sciences of organisations, management, economics and law (reflection on terminology, lexical semantics, the study of genre and argumentation); and, on the other hand, around teaching methods with a particular emphasis on optimising the use of multimedia resources, on guided self-training and assessment.

Staff :

• Professors : Alain CAZADE, Cynthia CAREY, Martine PIQUET
• Senior Lecturers: Odile CHALLE, Ross CHARNOCK, Nicole CHENIK, Helen CHUPIN, Christine GEOFFROY, Deirdre GILFEDDER, Elena LIZON-RESPAUT, Marion MARCEAU, Catherine PIOLA, Patrick Michael RICCIOLI, SANGUY, Béatrice  TROTIGNON, Catherine ROVERA,  Kerry-Jane WALLART
• HDR: Florence STRICKER
• Institutional researcher: Béatrice ROSSI-BOUCHARA

Nb of publications / year :

2 to 3 issues of the Cahiers du CICLaS ISSN1637-7060 + individual publications.

Latest publications :

 Les Cahiers du CICLaS, ISSN1637-7060:

• No 12 « Cultures et spécialités ? » Actes des quatrièmes Rencontres du CICLaS de novembre 2006 Dir. Odile CHALLE  en préparation  
• No 11 « Synergies » avril 2007 Dir. Martine PIQUET
• No 10, « Précision et euphémisme dans la langue de l'entreprise » Actes des troisièmes Rencontres du CICLaS de mars 2005 (Economica) Dir. Odile challe sous presse 
• No 9, « Couleurs », novembre 2006 Dir. Béatrice TROTIGNON 
• No 8 « La Nouvelle-Zélande et la France», novembre 2006 Dir. Martine PIQUET & Francine TOLRON 
• No 7 « Perspectives », mai 2006 Dir. Martine PIQUET

Works :

• Christine GEOFFROY, Les Coulisses de l'Entente cordiale, Grasset, Paris, 2004 
• Martine PIQUET, Australie Plurielle. Gestion de la diversité ethnique en Australie de 1788 à nos jours, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2004 

Collective works :

• Christine GEOFFROY « Culture et gestion en Angleterre : un idéal de mesure », in Eduardo Davel, Jean-Pierre Dupuis et Jean-François Chanlat (dir.), Gestion en contexte interculturel : Approches, problématiques, pratiques et plongées, Québec, Presse de l'Université Laval et TÉLUQ/UQAM, 2007 
• Deirdre GILFEDDER "Invisible and Indivisible Boundaries in David Malouf's 12 Edmonstone Street" in  The Politics and Poetics of Passage in Canadian and Australian Culture and Fiction, Charlotte Sturgess (dir.). Editions du Crini, Nantes,  2006 
• Martine PIQUET  « Australian Multicultural Equity and Fair Go », in Race and Inequality. World Perspectives on Affirmative Action, Elaine Kennedy-DUBOURDIEU (dir.), Ashgate, Londres, 2006 

Articles in peer-reviewed journals :

• Alain CAZADE "Multimedia Arcadia", in 'E-Learning nei centri linguistici universitari', Università degli Studi di Messina, Letojanni-Messina, 2005 
• Odile CHALLE « La précision du langage des lois », avec Andrée Brunet, Langue française spécialisée en droit, Economica, 2007 
• Ross CHARNOCK "Lexical indeterminacy, contextualism and rule-following in common law adjudication". In Cao, Deborah / W. Werner / A. Wagner (eds), Interpretation, Law and the Construction of Meaning. Dordrecht: Springer, 2007 
• Christine GEOFFROY : "Mobile Contexts, Immobile Cultures". The Journal for Language and Intercultural Communication. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2007 
• Martine PIQUET "'Shoot Straight, You Bastards!'. Australians in the Boer War : the Breaker Morant Case", Victorian Representations of War", Gilles Teulié (dir) Les Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens, octobre 2007 
• Béatrice TROTIGNON « Objectivité de façade, subjectivités en sourdine. La stratégie narrative dans Child of God de Cormac McCarthy », co-auteur Lucie Gournay, Profils Américains, Montpellier, 2005, n°17, pp. 181-212 

Active websites :

- Michael RICCIOLI Extra Help, MD2 "Mathematics of Decision Making" (créé en 2005)
http://www.cip.dauphine.fr/riccioli/mathsdecisionmd2/indexmd2.html

Conferences, events organised :

• 11th-12th October 2007: annual international conference on "Colonialism(s), postcolonialism(s)"
• 17th March 2007: study day on ""Malta and Tunisia: Shared memory(ies)- 24th November 2006: CICLaS-IRISES-ASDIFLE conference on "Intercultural: a multidisciplinary field of research"
• 12th-13th October 2006: annual international conference on "Americanisation, Asianisation or Pacificisation of Australasia?" & "Reconciliation in perspective"
• 30th June-1st July 2006: international conference on "New Zealand, France and the Pacific"
• 22nd February 2006: study day on "The Carnival in Malta".