Elena Semino
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Elena Semino (born 9 September 1964) is an
She served as Head of the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University from 2013 to 2019.
Biography
Semino earned her BA in 1988 in Foreign Languages and Literature from the
She serves on the editorial board of Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines and Metaphor and the Social World.[3]
Semino has been a co-PI on grants from the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Brazilian research agency CONFAP to study the linguistic representation of urban violence in Brazil using corpus linguistics methods,[4] and a project to funded by ESRC that details how metaphors are used in end-of-life care in the UK (MELC).[5]
On 21 November 2018, Semino said that the academics at the University of Mosul are "working in conditions that we cannot even imagine" after the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University facilitated to support the teaching of linguistics at Mosul, Iraq, providing mentoring for staff and students via video-conferencing, advice for PhD students and free access to an online course.[6]
Selected publications
- E. Semino. Metaphor in discourse. Cambridge University Press. 2008[7]
- E. Semino and M. Short. Corpus stylistics: Speech, writing and thought presentation in a corpus of English writing. Routledge. 2004[8]
- E. Semino, J. Heywood, M. Short. Methodological problems in the analysis of metaphors in a corpus of conversations about cancer. Journal of Pragmatics. 2004[9]
- E. Seminno and J. Culpeper. Cognitive stylistics: Language and cognition in text analysis. John Benjamins. 2002[10]
References
- ^ "Elena Semino". via-academy.org. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ "British Library EThOS - Search and order theses online". bl.uk. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ "John Benjamins Publishing".
- ^ "Elena Semino - ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS)". lancs.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ "Metaphor in end of life care (MELC). project". lancs.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ "Iraqi university rebuilds after IS 'dark age'". BBC.com. 21 November 2018. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
- ISBN 978-0-521-68696-9.
- ISBN 978-1138008625.
- ISBN 978-90-272-6843-3. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ISBN 978-90-272-3331-8. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
External links
• Faculty web page at Lancaster
• Elena Semino on
• Video: May I take your metaphor? – how we talk about cancer. Cancer Research UK