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Misuzu Shimotori (co-chair)

University of Bergen, Norway

Research interests: Emotion; Gender; Primary metaphor; Visual metaphor. Discourse analysis. 

Languages: Japanese, Swedish.

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Niamh Anna O'Dowd (co-chair)

University of Oslo, Norway

Research interests: Multimodality; Discourse; Metonymy; Climate; Environment; Creativity; Behaviour change

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Per Boström
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Umeå University, Sweden

Research interests: Cognitive Linguistics; Discourse Dynamic Metaphor research; Embodiment; Spoken discourse; Cultural Models; Conceptual metaphor; Metaphoricity. Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP) (applied to Swedish); Cultural models analysis.

Languages: Swedish, English.

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Sonia Blomquist

Uppsala University, Sweden

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Pernille Bogø Jørgensen

Lancaster University, UK

Research interest: Cognitive; Critical; CMT; Scenarios; Chains; Representation; Menopause; Corpus linguistics; Critical discourse analysis; Written discourse; Systemic functional linguistics.

Languages: Danish, English

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Anne Bredahl

University of Bergen, Norway

Research interests: Conceptual metaphor theory; metaphors in political discourse; metaphors in public discourse; metaphoric scenarios. Critical metaphor analysis; Metaphor identification procedure.

Languages: Norwegian

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Peer Christensen

Lund University, Sweden

Research interests: I study how spatial metaphors for musical pitch are reflected in speech and gesture by speakers of different languages and bilinguals. I'm also exploring how specific space-to-pitch mappings may influence performance in nonverbal tasks.

Languages: Danish, English

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Sebastian Cöllen

Uppsala University, Sweden

Research interests: Mysticism; The middle ages; Metaphor theory; Mechthild von Magdeburg; Ineffability; Historicity . Philology; Hermeneutics; Blending theory; Cognitive grammar 

Languages: Swedish, English, German

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Leon Dekker

Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway

Research interests: Music; Embodiment; Education; Cultural studies; Philosophy; Discourse analysis; Phenomenology; Music and gesture.

Languages: Norwegian, Dutch, German

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Simon Devylder

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Research interests: Motivation; Sedimentation; Cutting & Breaking; Body part; Culture; Cognition; Cognitive Linguistics; Cognitive Semiotics. Experimental Semiotics; Gesture analysis; Corpus linguistics.

Languages: English, French, Swedish, Paamese, Japanese, Indonesian.

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Elena Glotova

Umeå University, Sweden

Research interests: Metaphor in fiction; Metaphor in illness narratives; Embodied metaphor. Discourse analysis; Close reading.

Languages: English. 

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Anne Golden

University of Oslo, Norway

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Linda Greve

The Science Museums, Aarhus University, Denmark

Research interests: Education; 4E-Cognition; Learning,; Knowledge; Co-creation. MIPVU; Experiments; Observations; Interventions. 

Languages: Scandinavian, Danish, English.

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Anna W Gustafsson

Lund University, Sweden

Research interests: Cancer metaphors; Political language. Corpus linguistics; Discourse analysis; Conceptual Metaphor Theory; Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP). 

Languages: Swedish.

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Jenny Hartman

Lund University, Sweden

Research interests: Autism; Embodied Cognition; Sensory/perceptual foundations; Multimodality. Corpus linguistics.

Languages: English. 

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Annika Hillbom

Södertörn University, Sweden

​Research interests: Conceptual Metaphor Theory; Metonymy; Perception; Emotion; Cross-linguistic comparisons; Educational metaphors; Metaphor in fiction; Empirical studies; Procedure for Identifying Metaphorical Scenes (PIMS).

Languages: Swedish.

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Anne Holm

Linneus University, Sweden

Research interests: Conceptual metaphor; Embodiment; Enactivism; Cognitive grammar; Spoken word poetry; Metaphors of displacement; Metaphor and narrative. Stylistics; Literary studies.

Languages: English. 

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Charlotte Hommerberg

Linnaeus University, Sweden

Research interests: Illness; Cancer; Palliative care; Consumer reviews. Metaphor Identification; Corpus linguistics, Discourse analysis. 

Languages: English, Swedish. 

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Göran Jacobsson

Lund University, Sweden

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Astrid Jensen

University of Southern Denmark

Research interests: Distributed, ecological cognition; Narratives and metaphoricity. Discourse analysis. 

Languages: English. 

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Marlene Johansson Falck

Umeå University, Sweden

Research interests: Lexicoencyclopedic conceptual metaphors (LEC metaphors); Experiential bases of metaphor; Motion metaphors; L2 learning. Corpus linguistics; Psycholinguistic surveys.

Languages: English, Swedish.

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Daniela Karlsson

University of Gothenburg /

Umeå University

Research interests: Language awareness; metalinguistic awareness; languaging; figurative language; poetic genre; metaphorical spaces; metaphoric idioms; collaborative forms of learning.

Interaction analysis

Languages: English, Swedish

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Daniel Kjellander

Stockholm University, Sweden

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Susan Nacey

Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway

Research interests: Learner language; Spoken discourse; Written discourse; Big Data. Corpus linguistics; Metaphor Identification; 

Wmatrix.

Languages: English, Norwegian.

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Leo Nazar

Umeå University, Sweden

Research interests: Diachrony; Culture; Constructions; Causation; 

Moral Accounting; Lexical fields. Corpus investigation; Collostructional analysis; Sociohistorical and discursive contexts.

Languages: Old and Middle English.

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Marja Nenonen

University of Eastern Finland

Research interests: Metaphor; Idioms; Constructions; Migration; Slurs; Sarcasm; Persuasion; Neologisms; Media; Corpus Linguistics; Discourse analysis

 

Languages: Finnish, English, (Swedish)

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Marie Nordlund

Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

Research interests: Corpus linguistics.

Languages: English.

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Sebastian Malinowski

Karlstad University, Sweden

Research interests: Unconventional Metaphors; Conceptual Metaphors; Creativity; English as a Lingua Franca. Objective-qualitative; Survey; FrameNet; Corpus Linguistics.

Languages: English, English as a Lingua Franca.

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Helga Mannsåker

University of Bergen, Norway

Research interests: Interaction of metaphor and metonymy; Expert language; Psychiatry; Determinologization; Stigmatization. Critical metaphor analysis; Critical metonymy analysis; Corpus linguistics; Pragmatics; Etymology.

Languages: Norwegian.

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Kalina Moskaluk

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Research interests: Motivation and Sedimentation Model (MSM); Polysemiotic Metaphor; Cognitive Semiotics; Anxiety Disorders; Autism Spectrum Disorder; First-person Experience. Intuition-based analysis; Corpus analysis; Metaphor Identification Procedure,

Languages: English, Swedish.

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Lacey Okonski

Umeå University, Sweden

Research interests: Metaphor; Allegory; Dance; Embodied Cognition; Computer Based Language Learning; Prepositions; Phrasal Verbs; XYZ Metaphors; Dynamical Systems Theory; Indigenous Mother Earth Metaphors; Metaphorical Framing of the Climate Crisis. 

Experimental Design; Linguistic Data; Qualitative; Quantitative; Mixed Methods; Data Centered Systematic Metaphor Analysis; Gesture Analysis; Mouse Tracking Data; Dance Movement Analysis.

Languages: English, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish.

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Esa Penttilä

University of Eastern Finland

Research interests: Idioms; Constructions; Translation; Body parts; Political language; Migration; Education; Media discourse; 

Conceptual Metaphors; Blending Theory. Corpus linguistics; Discourse analysis; Survey methods; Experiments. 

Languages: English, Finnish, (Swedish, German).

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Milena Podolsak

Stockholm University, Sweden

Research interests:I am primarily interested in social and ideological aspects of conceptual metaphors, such as political discourse. My current research focuses on TIME-metaphor in political discourse.

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Nele Põldvere

University of Oslo, Norway

Lund University, Sweden

Research interests: Fake news; Political discourse; Conceptual metaphor; Evaluation; Creativity;  Constructions;  Frames;  Diachrony. 

Metaphor identification; Corpus linguistics; natural language processing.

Languages: English, Norwegian, Russian

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Amy Han Qui

University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Research interests: Synchrony between metaphors and conversation behaviors (e.g., gestures, filled pauses); Mental health communication; Psychotherapy talk; Metaphor use and psychopathology. Categorical data analysis; Generalized linear mixed models; Cluster analysis; Regression; Discourse analysis; Correspondent analysis (that combines therapeutic observations and discourse analytic findings). 

Languages: English, Mandarin Chinese

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Ljiljana Saric

University of Oslo, Norway

Research interests: Metaphor and identity; Metaphor and emotions; Metaphor and creativity; Metaphor and grammar. Discourse analysis; Corpus Linguistics; Qualitative methods. 

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Georgios Stampoulidis

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Research interests: Metaphor; Street Art; Polysemiotic Communication; Multimodality; Semiotic Systems; Motivation and Sedimentation Model (MSM); Context; Rhetorical Figures. Qualitative and Quantitative Methods; Go-along-Interviews; Observation; 

Photographical Documentation; Empathy; Inter-rater Reliability Tests.

Languages: English.

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Dusan Stamenkovic

Södertörn University, Sweden

Research interests: Metaphor comprehension; Metaphor features; Literary and nonliterary metaphors; Multimodal metaphors; Metaphor translation; Metaphor and ASD. Psycholinguistics; Individual differences; Contrastive linguistics; Multimodal analysis. 

Languages: English and South Slavic languages

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Peter Stilwell

University of Southern Denmark and McGill University (Canada)

Research interests: Pain; Suffering; Phenomenology; Embodied Cognition; Enactivism; Qualitative methods; Clinical practice. Narrative inquiry; Applied phenomenology; Semi-structured interviews. 

Languages: English

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Elzbieta Strzelecka

Mid Sweden University, Sweden

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Maria (Mia) Svensson

Umeå University, Sweden

Research interests: Literal/figurative/double meaning; Wordplay; Fixedness; Collocations; Stereotypes. Corpus linguistics.

Languages: French, Swedish.

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Heli Tissari

Umeå University, Sweden

Research interests: Emotions; Virtues; Cognition; History of the English language. Corpus linguistics; Historical linguistics.

Languages: English. 

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Kajsa Törmä

Umeå University, Sweden

Research interests: Cognitive linguistics, Embodiment, Framing, Multimodality, Political discourse, Scientific communication. Discourse Analysis, CDA, MIP.

Languages: English. 

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Anna Vogel

Stockholm University, Sweden

Research interests: Critical metaphor analysis; Conventionalized metaphors; Literary stylistics; Poetics; Rhetorics; Translation studies; Multimodal; Socio-semiotics; Digital; Feminist.

MIPVU; Discourse analysis; Positive discourse analysis; Systemic-functional linguistics.

Languages: Swedish, English.

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Mila Vulchanov

NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Research interests: Figurative language in development; Figurative language in developmental deficits (e.g., autism); Interventions for problems with figurative language. Advanced experimental research; Eye-tracking; Mouse-tracking, EEG/ERPs. 

Languages: Norwegian, English, Bulgarian, Spanish.

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Valentin Vulchanov

NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Research interests: Figurative language in development, in developmental deficits; Interventions for figurative language. Experimental research involving eye-tracking, mouse-tracking and standardized tests.

Languages: Norwegian, English, Bulgarian, Spanish.

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Jan Svanlund

Stockholm University, Sweden

Research interests: Metaphoricity; Conventionality; 

Conventionalization; Bleaching; Semantic development; Systematicity;  Metaphorical strength. Corpus linguistics; 

Psycholinguistic testing; eye-tracking.

Languages: Swedish.

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Thomas Wiben Jensen

University of Southern Denmark

Research interests: Metaphoricity; Audio-visual metaphor; Multimodality; Ecology; 4E-Cognition; Affordances; Social interaction; Gesture; Emotion; Public debate. Multimodal interaction analysis; Cognitive Linguistics; Cognitive event analysis; Conversation analysis; Dialogism; Visual analysis. 

Languages: Danish, English. 

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Milena Zart

Uppsala University, Sweden

Research interests: Metaphors in Discourses of Climate Change; Metaphorical framing; Political discourse; Media discourse. Discourse Analysis; Critical Discourse Analysis; Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP); Discourse Dynamic Metaphor research.

Languages: Swedish, 

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Jordan Zlatev

Lund University, Sweden

Research interests: Motivation and Sedimentation Model (MSM); 

Polysemiotic metaphor; Cognitive Semiotics; Non-actual motion; 

Gesture. Intuition-based analysis; Elicitation; Corpus analysis.

Languages: English, Swedish, Bulgarian, Thai. 

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