Nadia Makouar - Associate Professor of Linguistics at Paul-Valéry University of Montpellier
Email: nadia.makouar@univ-montp3.fr
RESEARCH AREAS AND INTERESTS
Language and law for social justice, Legal Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Discourse analysis, Hate Speech and Controversial discourse in social media; Interdiscursivity and Intertextuality, Interpretive Semantics; Political discourses analysis, Applied linguistics
CURRENT POSITION: Associate Professor of Linguistics at Paul-Valéry University of Montpellier, France
EDUCATION
2014 PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Department of Multilingual Engineering (France) and University Hassan II (Morocco) Dissertation title: Corpus Semantics and language learning: Application to journalistic discourses and political speeches in Arabic language
2010 BA in Arabic Languages, Literature and Civilization, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Department of Arabic Studies, Paris
2009 MA in Computational Linguistics, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Department of Multilingual Engineering, Paris
PhD SUPERVISION
Ghizlane Lafdi’s associate supervisor: “Who exactly are these Muslims? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Muslims and Islam Representations in the British and French Media –a Comparative Study”- Aston University
RESEARCH & TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2022-… Associate Professor of Linguistics at Paul-Valéry University of Montpellier
2020-2022 Research Associate in Forensic Linguistics at the Centre for Language and Law - Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics, Birmingham, UK.
2022 Practical Applications in Forensic Linguistics, Aston University, Birmingham, UK (project with Aston Villa Football Club)
2017-2020 Lecturer in Corpus linguistics - Université de Cergy-Pontoise – France
2019-2020 Postdoctoral researcher, European Project « OLKI », University de Lorraine, Metz - France
2019 Research Engineer in Computational linguistics, IREMAM, Université Aix- Marseille - France
May 2017 Visiting Assistant Lecturer in Corpus linguistics, Tbilissi State University - Georgia
2016-2018 Research Engineer in terminology - IIM/CNAC- Université de Reims - France
2015-2016 Lecturer in Arabic, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris - France
May 2015 Visiting Assistant Lecturer in Corpus linguistics, Tbilissi State University - Georgia
2011-2013 Teaching Assistant of linguistics, Université de Rouen, Rouen - France
2010 Part-time lecturer of linguistics, INALCO, Paris - France
2010 Research Assistant, Aliento Research Project, Université de Nancy 2 – France
2009-2010 Research Assistant – INALCO, Paris – France
PUBLICATIONS
Journal papers
In preparation (2025) The scope of Ricoeur's writings: Reflections on a recontextualisation in the age of digital justice, co-authored with Maryvonne Holzem.
In finalisation (2025) ”The notion of ”emprise" (control or influence) in domestic violence cases in France: corpus-assisted analysis of French court decisions ”
Makouar, N. (2024). Public Discourse on Criminal Responsibility and Its Impact on Political-Legal Decisions: Analysing the (Re-) Appropriation of the Language of Law in the Sarah Halimi Case. Languages, 9(10), 313. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9100313
Makouar, N., Devine, L., & Parker, S. (2023). Legislating to Control Online Hate Speech: A Corpus-Assisted Semantic Analysis of French Parliamentary Debates. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law-Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, 36(6), 2323-2353.
Devine, Lauren, Parker, Stephen, Harrington, Leigh and Makouar, Nadia (2022). 'Psy’ expert evidence in the family courts: The potential for corpus-assisted analysis. Language and Law / Linguagem e Direito, 9 (1), pp. 93-119.
Harrington, L., Parker, S., Devine, L. & Makouar, N., (2022), “Commercialising disadvantage: the neoliberal discourses of commercial bail bond websites”, In: Language and Law / Linguagem e Direito.
Devine, L., Parker, S. Harrington, L., & Makouar, N., (2022), ‘Psy’ evidence in the family courts: the potential for corpus-assisted analysis, In: Language and Law/Linguagem e Direito.
Makouar, N., Holzem, M. (2017) « Enjeux d’une praxis textuelle en éducation : réflexion sur l’apport des sciences de la culture en enseignement-apprentissage des langues », Questions vives, n°27.
Book Chapters
N. Makouar (2022), "Immigration statistics in French online comment boards: mistrust discourse in anti-migrant hate speech", In Online hate speech against migrants, eds. Monnier, A., Boursier, B., Seoane, A., Palgrave
N. Makouar (2018), “Corpus Linguistics and Critical Thinking: proposals for teaching learning sequences based on journalistic corpora in Modern Standard Arabic”, in The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Second Language Acquisition ed. Mohammad T. Alhawary, Abingdon: Routledge
N. Makouar, (2014) « Les médias du Golfe et la question des révolutions arabes », Médias et construction idéologique du monde par l’Occident, l’Harmattan, Paris.
N. Makouar, (2014) « Les "mots" des révolutions : Étude contrastive d’un corpus de journaux arabes », In Les ondes de choc des révolutions, Presses de l’Ifpo, eds. Oualdi, M., Pagès El Karoui, D., Verdeil, C, Beyrouth : IFPO, 181-197.
N. Makouar (2015), « Propositions pour la didactique des textes : Genres journalistiques et langue-culture arabe », in Les Genres textuels, une question d’interprétation ? France. Lambert-Lucas, 157-167.
N. Makouar, (2014) « Les médias du Golfe et la question des révolutions arabes », Texto ! Textes et Cultures, Institut Ferdinand de Saussure, [En ligne], Volume XIX - n°2.
Conference Proceedings
E. Bourion, N. Makouar (2010) « Emergence de concepts et "négociation lexicale" entre acteurs : le champ de la finance islamique », (TIA'09 Workshop, 20 novembre 2009, Toulouse) CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 579. ISSN : 1613-0073.
CONFERENCES
”Corpus linguistics applied to the language of law, A corpus-driven exploration of French parliamentary debates on immigration”, IAFLL Regional Conference Europe 2024, Birmingham, July 2024
”Corpus linguistics applied to the language of law, A corpus-driven exploration of French parliamentary debates on immigration”, CILC2024, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España, 22-24 may, 2024
”The notion of ”emprise" (control or influence) in domestic violence cases in France: corpus-assisted analysis of French court decisions ”, IAFLL, Manilla, juin 2023
”Public discourses on Diminished responsibility”, AILA 2023, Symposium « Forensic and Legal linguistics », Lyon, juin 2023.
“Discursive Regulation in Social Media: Analysis of French Parliamentary Debates on Manipulation of Information Law”. ILLA, Alicante, Spain, 7th sept 2021
“Cyberhate regulation in France: understanding the semantic negotiation and dynamics in parliamentary debates”, IAFL15, Birmingham, UK, 13-17th sept 2021
“Analysis of « fausse(s) information(s) » expression in French parliamentary debates: Preliminary Explorations", AIFL Annual Symposium: Diverse methods and topics in forensic linguistics, Aston University, Birmingham, September 24th, 2020
Co-author (Dr Laura Ascone) “Discourse analysis of ‘otherness’ and ‘reality’ in French online anti-migrant comments”, Panel: Offensive language on social media, 17th International Pragmatics Conference, Winterthur, Switzerland, 2 July 2021.
“Anti-intellectualism as a strategy of anti-immigrant propaganda: semantic analysis of French media online comments regarding immigration statistics” 24th DiscourseNet Conference Discourse and Communication as propaganda: digital and multimodal forms of activism, persuasion and disinformation across ideologies, Université Saint-Louis, Bruxelles, Sep 2020, Brussels, Belgium.
« Media narratives around the « fake news » issue on the recent Gulf Crisis: a Corpus Semantic analysis of the conflict representations in the Arab media sphere », Arabic Linguistics Forum, Université de Londres, SOAS, Londres (UK), 05/07/2018
« Second Language learning in Arabic by using Corpus analysis tools on media texts about Arab Uprisings: An empirical study of writing and reading processes », Arabic SLA Conference 2016, «Investigating Arabic Second Language Learning: Empirical Findings and Trends », University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 25/09/2016
« Herméneutique et didactique des langues : Comment renouveler les pratiques éducatives avec la sémantique de corpus ? », Colloque international « Sortir de la confusion des savoirs et des valeurs par la différenciation des domaines du symbolique et des textes ; Enjeux pour l’enseignement, l’éducation, et la formation », ESPE Académie de Rouen, Mont- Saint-Aignan, le 20/05/2016
“Corpus Linguistics and Critical Thinking: Proposals of teaching-learning sequences based on journalistic corpora in Modern Standard Arabic”, AATA Panel in conjunction with the Annual meeting of MESA, « New Approaches to the Teaching and Learning of Arabic Language and Culture: Methods, Principles, Theories », Denver (USA), 21/11/2015
« Les révoltes arabes dans les médias: un "deux poids, deux mesures" pour une même indignation », En hommage à Stéphane Hessel, 12TH Annual graduate conference, « Time for outrage » Around the World, University of Miami, USA, October 2013
« Propositions pour la didactique des textes : Genres journalistiques et langue-culture arabe », Colloque international « Interpréter selon les genres », Université Cadi Ayyad, Marrakech, Maroc, April 2013
« Les "mots" des révolutions : Étude contrastive d’un corpus de journaux arabes », Colloque international « Les ondes de choc des révolutions arabes », Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris, February 2012
« Analyse sémantique textuelle et détection d'opinions : l'exemple des industriels du tabac ». Invited Lecture, Department of Multilingual Engineering, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris, October 2009.
Emergence de concepts et "négociation lexicale" entre acteurs : le champ de la finance islamique », conférence internationale terminologie et intelligence artificielle. Atelier « Du thème au terme. Émergence et lexicalisation des connaissances », Université Paul Sabatier – Toulouse 3, November 2009
LANGUAGES INFORMATIC TOOLS AND LANGUAGES
French: Native Fluency TXM, Lexico 3/5, IRaMuTeQ, Hyperbase
English: Advanced skills R, Python, Shell, Perl, XML, XSLT, HTML, CSS
Standard Arabic: Native Fluency
Moroccan Arabic: Native Fluency
Levantine arabic: intermediate
Hebrew: Beginner