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Perfektes Timing zum Chinesischen Neuen Jahr! 🐎Gerade erschienen: "Bedeutungsschwangere Pausen in Kognition und Interaktion: Pragmatische und psycholinguistische Perspektiven auf interkulturelle Kommunikation"(mit @thematzing.bsky.social, @elizabethqingzhang.bsky.social ...
New brilliant #OpenAccess paper on cognition and #languageevolution
Personifications with dementia as a malevolent agent or opponent do echo media construals; however, the users in turn construe themself as agentive warriors (even if they acknowledge that their agency is diminished or altered). This shows why mass media construals can be described as problematic 6/6
Individual metaphorical occurrences may give evidence of dementia’s impact on the users’ daily life (e.g. “it [dementia] doesn’t play to the rules" sees dementia as a player who is cheating in a GAME) 5/
People diagnosed use metaphors (BODIES ARE MACHINES) to discuss physical changes, both as a process of making sense of the (changed) self, but also as ways of explaining dementia to other (non-diagnosed) users. ("I still hope it's just a blip and normal service will be resumed soon") 4/
People diagnosed use the source domains of WAR and LOSS, as well as the SPLIT SELF metaphor, to express their struggles with living with dementia, but also to construe themselves as agentive. ("I am a fighter and always will be, I will fight till the end" for WAR) 3/
I analyse data from a forum for people living with dementia. Contrary to some medical research suggesting those diagnosed are challenged in using conceptual metaphor, my data show rich and creative uses of metaphor. Negative mass media construals (FLOOD of dementia) are absent from the data 2/
a screenshot of the first page of Monika's paper titled "I still hope it's just a blip - Constructing life with dementia in a public digital health community"
New paper alert!
In my newest paper, which has just appeared in Discourse, Context & Media, I analyse how people living with dementia use conceptual metaphor to construct self and their condition and as a tool for sense-making for dementia-induced changes
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Das weckt Erinnerungen an eine frühere Uni. Englischstudi bat darum, das Gespräch bzgl Bestehens des Sprachkurses auf Deutsch zu führen, weil Englisch zu schwierig sei.
Korpuslinguistik die Pyrotechnik der Sprachwissenschaft 🧨
Portrait of Kanzi
The remarkable bonobo that humans named Kanzi has died, age 44. During his life he helped researchers learn much more about the capabilities of his species, and by extension about our shared common ancestors.
www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...
A picture of Torun oldtown at night in winter
JOB ALERT in #language and #linguistics!
Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
We are now looking at a broader candidate pool so do consider applying!
Please repost & share widely!
I've just started writing a story in German. I'm ashamed to say I need the dictionary more than when I write in English 🙈
Dear #langsky! I have just published my survey. If you have ever used Duolingo to learn/practice German, you are welcome to participate. Whether you love or hate Duolingo, whether you use it every day or not at all, whether you speak fluent German or only a few words.
book cover of an edited volume on discourse-analytic perspectives on medical communication in the European context
A screenshot of the start page of Monika's paper, showing the title and parts of the introduction
My latest paper is out in OA! I discuss how family care partners use conceptual #metaphor in an online forum to conceptualise #caregiving and 'their' person living with #dementia
www.winter-verlag.de/de/detail/97...
The hands of two adults wrapped around the hand of a newborn
I'm overjoyed to announce my first co-authored project of 2025: welcome to the world, Samuel *14.02.3025
Das animierte GIF ZEIGT eine Uhr, die rückwärts läuft
Noch wenige Stunden, dann gehen die Uhren womöglich auch in Deutschland rückwärts. Oder doch nicht? Noch haben wir es in der Hand. Falls ihr noch nicht wisst, ob ihr wählen geht: tut es! Eure Stimme ist wichtiger denn je. Let‘s vote the shit out of this (im besten Fall im Wortsinn) #btw25
schwarze Schrift auf Pink: Ambivalente Affekte und Ästhetiken des Alltäglichen Universität Heidelberg 7.-9. Juli 2025 Organisation: Theresa Heyd (Heidelberg) und Heide Volkening (Greifswald)
Und nicht zuletzt: planen, organisieren, freuen auf unsere interdisziplinäre Tagung im Juli:
uebercringe.de/call-for-pap...
a picture of Torun old town in winter
JOB ALERT! Come work with me!
34-Month Postdoc Position here at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in my project "Paths to Polysemy"
Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
Please repost & share widely!
Publication day: Voices in the Linguistic Landscape, our study on anthropomorphic objects and their first person pronouns.
If you are interested in theories of posthumanist sociolinguistics and/or pictures of talking trash cans, this is for you!
Andrew Van Ginkel has been slept on by the AP and was named 2nd-Team All-Pro.
Gink deserves 1st-Team accolades in our humble opinion.
📰: mnvkn.gs/40a8f0r
#Skol
Battle For The North.
#Skol
Stellenausschreibung: Uni Heidelberg, Psycholinguistik, A13 100%, 3+3 Jahre ⬇️
My hating plotting is one of the main reasons I became a poet 😅
Euer Sprachgefühl ist gefragt - gerne teilnehmen und/oder teilen: surveys.phil.hhu.de/umfrage/inde...
Abwesenheitsnotiz ✅
Plätzchenteller und Kerzen ✅
Noch einmal mit dem BTSV verlieren
Und dann ist Weihnachten
Reminder für alle #IchBinHanna|s: Es ist okay, in der Weihnachtspause nicht zu arbeiten. Deadlines in oder direkt nach der Pause sind nicht normal, sondern Teil einer toxischen Arbeitskultur. Habt kein schlechtes Gewissen wegen Nichtstun! Das Jahr war hart. Take a break! ❤️
Damn, da hab ich gestern meine Klausur fertiggestellt. Das wäre so ne schöne Diskussionsaufgabe 😅
