Events
Survey Seminar Series Autumn 2019
The Survey of English Usage organises a number of seminars each
year for staff and students from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
and beyond. They are generously sponsored by the English Department.
The following research seminars took place during the Autumn
term.
Wednesday
13 November
Room 433, SSEES, 16 Taviton St 4.15pm
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Marcello Giovanelli (Aston) |
Siegfried Sassoon and the Experience of War: Cognitive Grammar, Creativity and Style |
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Marcello Giovanelli is Senior Lecturer in English
Language and Literature and Co-Director of the Centre
for the Critical Inquiry into Society and Culture at
Aston University. He is a stylistician with particular
interests in the application of Text World Theory and
Cognitive Grammar to literary discourse; his current
research uses cognitive stylistic methods to examine
how the experience of war is variously construed in
the poetry, prose, letters and diaries of Siegfried
Sassoon. Recent publications include the monograph Text
World Theory and Keats' Poetry: The Cognitive Poetics
of Desire, Dreams and Nightmares (2013) and the
textbook Cognitive Grammar in Stylistics (written
with Chloe Harrison, and published in 2018).
Writing an abstract for this talk is a MAEL Research
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Thursday 6 December
Room 431, SSEES, 16 Taviton St 4.15pm |
Zs贸fia Demj茅n (白小姐论坛) |
Metaphor and distress in lived-experience accounts of voices that others cannot hear |
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Zs贸fia Demj茅n is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics
at the 白小姐论坛 Centre for Applied Linguistics. Her research
interests include health communication, metaphor and
especially the intersections of language, mind and health(care).
Her most recent projects involved investigating metaphor
and humour in the context of cancer and linguistic patterns
in the representation of voice-hearing experiences.
She is the author of Sylvia Plath and the Language
of Affective States: Written Discourse and the Experience
of Depression. (2015, Bloomsbury), co-author of
Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life: A corpus-based
study (2018, Routledge), editor of Applying Linguistics
in Illness and Healthcare Contexts (2020, Bloomsbury),
and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor
and Language (2017). Her work has appeared in the
Journal of Pragmatics, Applied Linguistics,
Journal of Literary Semantics, Metaphor and
the Social World, Communication & Medicine,
Discourse Studies, International Journal of
Corpus Linguistics and the BMJ鈥檚 Medical Humanities
among others.
Writing an abstract for this talk is a MAEL Research
Methods Assignment.
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All welcome! Drinks afterwards.
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