Network members
Thomas Wiben Jensen
(co-chair)
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.
Per Boström
(webmaster)
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.
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
Simon Devylder
Lund University, Sweden
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.
Göran Jacobsson
Lund University, Sweden
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Kalina Moskaluk
Lund University, Sweden
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.
Anna Niahm O'Dowd
University of Oslo, Norway
Research interests: Multimodality; Figurative thought; Metaphorical framing; Metonymy; Emotions; Experimental method; Environmental crisis; Plastic crisis; Climate crisis. (Multimodal) discourse analysis; Experimental, critical discourse approach (CDA);Response elicitation approach (REA); Corpus linguistics.
Languages: English, French, Spanish
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.
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).
Nele Põldvere
University of Oslo, Norway
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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
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
Georgios Stampoulidis
Lund University, Sweden
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.
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
Kajsa Törmä
Umeå University, Sweden
Research interests: Cognitive linguistics, Embodiment, Framing, Multimodality, Political discourse, Scientific communication. Discourse Analysis, CDA, MIP.
Languages: English.
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.
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.
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.
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,