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OMG!! A new Words & Actions episode has landed and we couldn’t be more excited! In this start to a six-part series, “The language of…”, we look at the language of emotion: in the workplace, in …

Abstract Recent research suggests more overlaps between metaphor and metonymy than is often suggested by theoretical and applied studies, which can frequently tend towards cleanly identifying between ...

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow connected to "ICONIC" (277523), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Saturday, May 31, 2025

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Psychologists, sociologists, linguists and many others have studied how people respond to extreme weather events, such as floods or wildfires. Some linguists have been interested in particular in analysing the use and impact of metaphors. When we studied the 2021 German floods, Rusi Jaspal and I found that floods were either metaphorically framed as human, ...

Migration in an evolving global landscape: exploring agency, resistance and precarity over time What: A one-day conference organised by and for PhD researchers interested in migration. When: Wedne...

Cambridge Core - Cognitive Linguistics - Language, Image, Gesture

The use of metaphor and metonymy in social awareness campaigns has been shown as an effective strategy to evoke emotional reactions in the audience and influence behavior change. Using authentic ca...

Job title: Doctoral Research Fellowship within language and linguistics (271069), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, February 28, 2025