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Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

 

Professor Christophe Gagne

Christophe Gagne
Position(s): 
Professor of French Language and Translation (T&S)
Fellow and College Lecturer (Churchill College)
Department/Section: 
French
Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics
Contact details: 
Telephone number: 
+44 (0)1223 3 35049
College: 
Location: 

Churchill College Storey's Way Ƶ CB3 0DS

About: 

Christophe’s research interests lie in the fields of language use, contrastive pragmatics, translation, politeness theory and discourse analysis. His PhD thesis (Université Lumière Lyon II) was a contrastive analysis of French and British service encounters. He has an interest in intercultural communication and has given talks on the allegedof the French (Trinity French Society, Prince’s Teaching Institute, Ƶ Festival of Ideas). He is currently working on interruptions in parliamentary debates with a group of researchers from the University of Helsinki and the University of Lyon.

Prior to working at Ƶ University Christophe worked as a translator for a private company. He has translated poetry by the novelist John Fowles (Greek poems= Poèmes grecs, The Greek Poems,Editions NG, 2001). He recently translated an anthology of poems on exile (CivicLeicester). He has co-authored with Emilia Wilton Godberfforde a textbook on translating from English into French, the book was published by Routledgein 2020.

Christophe is also interested in popular culture and current affairs. He recently contributed entries to an. Christophe has produced various language-learning resources for the Language Centre – notably learning objects on Bourdieu, Césaire and Rousseau, designed to help learners develop their academic reading skills in French. Christophe was an External Assessor for a French course delivered by the Open University in 2016-2018.

Christophe is regularly involved in outreach events. He has been a judge for the final of the Routes into Languages Spelling Bee Competition on several occasions, and for the Mother Tongue Other Tongue Translation competition. He has also taken parts in events organized by or the . He has in the last 4 years coordinated the French section’s participation to the . He is also keen to explore the benefits of creative writing in the language classroom.

Teaching interests: 

French Grammar and Usage, Contemporary French Culture, Translation and Translation Theory, French Variational Linguistics.

Research interests: 

Contrastive Pragmatics, Conversation Analysis, Discourse Analysis​, Interactional Linguistics, Variational Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Foreign Language Teaching and Learning.

Published works: 

. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict (May 2025)

''.Journal of Language and Politics (March 2024).

. In: Nicole Baumgarten and Roel Vismans (eds.), Forms of Address in Contrastive Contexts. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (2023).

“.”Corela, no. 19–2 (December 2021).

With Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde,(2020, Routledge)

“.”Journal of Pragmatics133 (August 2018): 1–14.