Network members
Misuzu Shimotori (co-chair)
University of Bergen, Norway
Research interests: Emotion; Gender; Primary metaphor; Visual metaphor. Discourse analysis.
Languages: Japanese, Swedish.
Niahm Anna O'Dowd (co-chair)
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
Elena Glotova
Umeå University, Sweden
Research interests: Metaphor in fiction; Metaphor in illness narratives; Embodied metaphor. Discourse analysis; Close reading.
Languages: English.
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.
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.
Jenny Hartman
Lund University, Sweden
Research interests: Autism; Embodied Cognition; Sensory/perceptual foundations; Multimodality. Corpus linguistics.
Languages: English.
Annika Hillbom
Uppsala University, Sweden
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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.
Charlotte Hommerberg
Linnaeus University, Sweden
Research interests: Illness; Cancer; Palliative care; Consumer reviews. Metaphor Identification; Corpus linguistics, Discourse analysis.
Languages: English, Swedish.
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.
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.
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
Daniel Kjellander
Umeå 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.
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.
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)
Marie Nordlund
Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Research interests: Corpus linguistics.
Languages: English.
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.
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
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.
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).
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
Heli Tissari
Umeå University, Sweden
Research interests: Emotions; Virtues; Cognition; History of the English language. Corpus linguistics; Historical linguistics.
Languages: English.
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.
Jan Svanlund
Stockholm University, Sweden
Research interests: Metaphoricity; Conventionality;
Conventionalization; Bleaching; Semantic development; Systematicity; Metaphorical strength. Corpus linguistics;
Psycholinguistic testing; eye-tracking.
Languages: Swedish.
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,
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.