Lelandais Manon

Manon Lelandais is an Associate Professor in Linguistics at Université Paris Cité, France, affiliated with the Department of English Studies and ALTAE Lab (Unit #3967). She is also a member of the Empirical Foundations of Linguistics and holds a position at the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). Her research focuses on the interplay between verbal, vocal, and gestural resources in spontaneous conversation, particularly in British and American English contexts.

• Current research themes include multimodal discourse analysis, cognitive grammar, and construction grammar
• Her methodology emphasizes quantitative analysis of audiovisual datasets, tracking acoustic markers and co-verbal gestures (hand, head, eyebrow movements, gaze)

Teaching activities at Université Paris Cité include:

• Corpus Linguistics (Master's in English Linguistics)
• Verbal and Nominal Structures (Licence 1, LLCER English)
• Linguistics Methodology courses

Supervision includes MA theses on topics like gestural strategies during speech pauses, irony in political discourse, and multimodal sarcasm analysis. Peer review activities for journals such as Language and Speech, Gesture, and Constructions and Frames. She serves on program committees for Speech Prosody, Interspeech, and ICCG, and participates in scientific boards like ISGS Paris hub and AFLiCo.