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«I've always loved Anglo-American culture, which I find very open-minded, so after graduating from high school in Bordeaux, where I grew up, I undertook a degree in English. I really enjoyed the course and decided to go on to do a research Master's degree in the study of English-speaking worlds. I then obtained a doctoral contract funded as part of the MESRI doctoral disability campaign, and did a thesis on "the pragmatics of discourse and differentiated conversational and interactional style", which I defended in 2021. During my thesis, I began teaching in the English Department in Linguistics, and following on from my thesis I obtained a contract teaching position in the Language Sciences Department. Exchanges with students are very stimulating. Now that I've qualified for a position as Senior Lecturer, I hope to be recruited by Bordeaux-Montaigne University in the future.

I'm working on the reappropriation of the stigma in the political arena, which affects the person and image of female politicians like Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris in a more significant way.I'm also working on the issue of the delivery and reception of compliments in American culture, a fascinating and funny subject! I recently submitted an article on the subject. In the future, I'd like to study Meghan Markle's image in the Anglo-American press, whose every move is scrutinized, commented on (and sometimes staged) by the media - particularly the British press. It has to be said that the "taste for clash" and the split are partly initiated and sought by the media and social networks to "get ratings" and play with affects. This leads to a kind of bipolarization of thought, and sometimes highlights certain insulting and/or violent behaviors, to the detriment of nuance on subjects at the heart of the debate.»

Anaïs Carrere,
Lecturer, Department of Language Sciences, Bordeaux Montaigne University

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