Elena Semino

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Elena Semino is affiliated with the following schools: Lancaster University, University of Genoa, University of Bologna

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#858

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Elena Semino's Degrees

Bachelors English Language and Literature University of Bologna

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According to Wikipedia, Elena Semino is an Italian-born British linguist whose research involves stylistics and metaphor theory. Focusing on figurative language in a range of poetic and prose works, most recently she has worked on topics from the domains of medical humanities and health communication. Her projects use corpus linguistic methods as well as qualitative analysis.

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Elena Semino's Published Works

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MIP: A method for identifying metaphorically used words in discourse (2007) (1180)
Metaphor in discourse (2008) (342)
Corpus Stylistics: Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation in a Corpus of English Writing (2004) (316)
Cognitive stylistics:language and cognition in text analysis. (2002) (214)
An integrated approach to metaphor and framing in cognition, discourse and practice, with an application to metaphors for cancer (2016) (199)
Language and world creation in poems and other texts (1997) (160)
The online use of Violence and Journey metaphors by patients with cancer, as compared with health professionals: a mixed methods study (2015) (155)
Politics is Football: Metaphor in the Discourse of Silvio Berlusconi in Italy (1996) (125)
“Not Soldiers but Fire-fighters” – Metaphors and Covid-19 (2020) (118)
Descriptions of Pain, Metaphor, and Embodied Simulation (2010) (117)
Methodological problems in the analysis of metaphors in a corpus of conversations about cancer (2004) (108)
A sturdy baby or a derailing train? Metaphorical representations of the euro in British and Italian newspapers. (2002) (107)
The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language (2017) (106)
Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life: A Corpus-Based Study (2017) (96)
A computer-assisted study of the use of Violence metaphors for cancer and end of life by patients, family carers and health professionals (2015) (93)
Metaphor in literature (2008) (92)
Using a semantic annotation tool for the analysis of metaphor in discourse. (2008) (85)
Figurative Language, Genre and Register (2013) (75)
Metaphor and mind style in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. (1996) (72)
Metaphor, Genre, and Recontextualization (2013) (67)
Linguistic metaphor identification in two extracts from novels (2002) (60)
Revisiting the notion of faithfulness in discourse presentation using a corpus approach (2002) (59)
Metaphor, Politics and Gender: a Case Study from Germany (2009) (55)
A cognitive stylistic approach to mind style in narrative fiction (2002) (55)
Emotional Implications of Metaphor: Consequences of Metaphor Framing for Mindset about Cancer (2018) (54)
Hypothetical words and thoughts in contemporary British narratives. (1999) (47)
Using a corpus to test a model of speech and thought presentation (1997) (47)
Schema theory and the analysis of text worlds in poetry (1995) (43)
Constructing witches and spells: Speech acts and activity types in Early Modern England (2000) (42)
The Metaphorical Construction of Complex Domains: The Case of Speech Activity in English (2005) (40)
Exploiting a Semantic Annotation Tool for Metaphor Analysis (2007) (38)
Metaphor, creativity, and the experience of pain across genres (2011) (36)
Corpus linguistics and metaphor (2017) (35)
Reading reports:discourse presentation in a corpus of narratives with special reference to news reports. (1999) (30)
Mind Style Twenty-Five Years On (2007) (30)
‘Good’ and ‘bad’ deaths: Narratives and professional identities in interviews with hospice managers (2014) (30)
Blending and characters’ mental functioning in Virginia Woolf's ‘Lappin and Lapinova’ (2006) (28)
Metaphors for 'good' and 'bad' deaths:a health professional view (2016) (25)
Unrealistic scenarios, metaphorical blends and rhetorical strategies across genres. (2010) (24)
Pragmatic failure, mind style and characterisation in fiction about autism (2014) (24)
Metaphors of Climate Science in Three Genres: Research Articles, Educational Texts, and Secondary School Student Talk (2019) (23)
Investigating the presentation of speech,writing and thought in spoken British English:A corpus-based approach (2004) (21)
Mind style 25 years on (2007) (21)
The adaptation of metaphors across genres (2011) (21)
Corpus techniques for metaphor analysis. (2010) (21)
Using metaphor in healthcare: Physical health (2017) (20)
Possible worlds and mental spaces in Hemingway’s ‘A very short story’ : Editors’ preface (2003) (19)
The taming of the text (1992) (19)
Shameless normalisation of impoliteness: Berlusconi’s and Trump’s press conferences (2020) (18)
Deixis and fictional minds (2011) (17)
Healthcare professionals’ online use of violence metaphors for care at the end of life in the US:a corpus-based comparison with the UK (2017) (17)
Face attack in Italian politics:Beppe Grillo’s insulting epithets for other politicians (2016) (17)
Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence and Narrative Theory (1993) (17)
Incidences of various passenger vehicle front-end designs on pedestrian lower limb injuries (2015) (15)
A computer-assisted approach to the analysis of metaphor variation across genres. (2005) (15)
Henry's voices: the representation of auditory verbal hallucinations in an autobiographical narrative (2014) (14)
Representing Characters' Speech and Thought in Narrative Fiction: A Study of England England by Julian Barnes (2004) (14)
Methodological problems in the analysis of a corpus of conversations about cancer. (2004) (13)
Images as catalysts for meaning-making in medical pain encounters: a multidisciplinary analysis (2018) (13)
Metaphors for speaking and writing in the British press. (2007) (12)
A corpus-based investigation of speech, thought and writing presentation in English narrative texts. (1998) (12)
A corpus-based study of metaphors for speech activity in British English (2006) (12)
Cancer as a Metaphor (2019) (12)
Metaphor framing and distress in lived-experience accounts of voice-hearing (2019) (12)
The #ReframeCovid initiative (2021) (12)
Deixis and the dynamics of poetic voice. (1995) (11)
On readings, literariness and schema theory: A reply to Jeffries (2001) (11)
Language, mind and autism in Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2014) (9)
Acting like a Hedgehog in Times of Pandemic: Metaphorical Creativity in the #reframecovid Collection (2022) (9)
Chapter 10. A corpus-based study of ‘mixed metaphor’ as a metalinguistic comment (2016) (9)
A linguistic approach to the psychosis continuum: (dis)similarities and (dis)continuities in how clinical and non-clinical voice-hearers talk about their voices (2020) (8)
The language of newspapers. (2009) (8)
Using a corpus for stylistics research : speech presentation. (1996) (7)
Building on Keith Green's ‘Deixis and the poetic persona: further reflections on deixis in poetry (1992) (7)
Images and the dynamics of pain consultations (2017) (7)
Stylistics and Linguistic Variation in Poetry (2002) (7)
The Cancer Card: Metaphor, Intimacy, and Humor in Online Interactions about the Experience of Cancer (2017) (6)
Source “scenes” and source “domains” : insights from a corpus-based study of metaphors for communication. (2005) (6)
A (free direct) reply to Paul Simpson's discourse (1997) (6)
Communicating Nuanced Results in Language Consultancy: The Case of Cancer and the Violence Metaphor (2020) (6)
Using metaphor in healthcare (2016) (5)
Possible Worlds: Stylistic Applications (2006) (5)
Revisiting the notion of faithfulness in discourse:report/(re)presentation using a corpus approach. (2001) (4)
Schema and script theory. (2001) (4)
7. Evaluation and stylistic analysis (2008) (4)
Discourse worlds and mental spaces. (2003) (4)
Comparison between computerized static perimetry and high-pass resolution perimetry in the follow-up of glaucomatous patients. (2009) (3)
Translating science for young people through metaphor (2019) (3)
The Cancer Card: metaphor and humour in online interactions about the experience of cancer (2017) (3)
“One gives bad compliments about me, and the other one is telling me to do things” – (Im)Politeness and power in reported interactions between voice-hearers and their voices (2020) (3)
Text Worlds in Poetry (2010) (3)
Metaphor and situational motivation (2009) (3)
POSSIBLE WORLDS IN POETRY (1996) (3)
A method for annotating metaphors in corpora. (2001) (2)
Introduction: Metaphor and language (2017) (2)
Person-ness of voices in lived experience accounts of psychosis: combining literary linguistics and clinical psychology (2020) (2)
COVID-19: A forest fire rather than a wave? (2020) (2)
Language matters: representations of ‘heart failure’ in English discourse—a large-scale linguistic study (2022) (2)
Blending and characters ’ mental functioning in Virginia (2010) (2)
Stylistics: Mind Style in an Autobiographical Account of Schizophrenia (2021) (2)
Applying Corpus Linguistics to a diagnostic tool for pain (2020) (2)
Metaphor, Metonymy and Framing in Discourse (2020) (2)
Patients’ Humorous Metaphors for Cancer Online (2017) (1)
Douglas Biber and Susan Conrad, Register, genre, and style . Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 344. (2011) (1)
Perimetric findings in carotid obstructive disease (1998) (1)
‘Am I being unreasonable to vaccinate my kids against my ex’s wishes?’ – A corpus linguistic exploration of conflict in vaccination discussions on Mumsnet Talk’s AIBU forum (2022) (1)
The art of medicine Images and the dynamics of pain consultations (2017) (1)
Stylistics and Literary Evaluation (2008) (1)
What is a ‘good death’? Narratives, metaphors and professional identities in interviews with hospice managers (2013) (1)
Metaphor and fictional minds. (2006) (1)
Lancaster speech, writing and thought presentation spoken corpus. (2004) (1)
The construction of a corpus to investigate the presentation of speech, thought and writing in written and spoken British English. (2003) (1)
Use of an Online Forum for Relatives of People With Psychosis and Bipolar Disorder: Mixed Methods Study (2022) (1)
The adaptation of metaphor across genres (2011) (1)
On Our Mind: Salience, Context and Figurative Language, R. Giora. Oxford University Press (2003), 259 pp., hardback (2004) (1)
Metaphor and situacional motivation (2009) (0)
Corpus linguistics and clinical psychology: Investigating personification in first-person accounts of voice-hearing (2022) (0)
Book review: On Our Mind: Salience, Context and Figurative Language (2004) (0)
Possible worlds : stylistics applications. (2005) (0)
METAPHOR AND METONYMY IN DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS (2015) (0)
Language Matters - Representations of the term heart failure in English discourse: a large-scale linguistic study (2022) (0)
Book Review: New Perspectives on Narrative Perspective (2003) (0)
Speech, Thought and Writing Presentation Corpus (1997) (0)
Narrative skill in Bilgewater's prologue (2006) (0)
with hospice managers ' Good ' and ' bad ' deaths : Narratives and professional identities in interviews (2014) (0)
2331 Visual field preservation in advanced primary open-angle glaucoma after filtration surgery (1995) (0)
Key Topics and Main Metaphor Patterns in the Corpus (2017) (0)
A corpus-based investigation into speech and thought presentation in spoken British English (2003) (0)
An analysis of the opening scene of the play The room by Harold Pinter (1993) (0)
Chapter 15. Afterword: Some reflections on MIPVU across languages (2019) (0)
Use of an online forum for relatives of people with psychosis and bipolar disorder: a multi-method study (Preprint) (2021) (0)
Data and General Methodology (2017) (0)
Deixis and Fictional Minds Deixis and Fictional Minds Introduction (0)
Book Reviews (2009) (0)
Family Carers’ Metaphors for the Emotions Associated With Bereavement (2017) (0)
Open Research Online The online use of Violence and Journey metaphors by patients with cancer, as compared with health professionals: a mixed methods study (2015) (0)
Revisiting the Violence Metaphor in End-of-Life Care (2014) (0)
Metaphor (2020) (0)
Dialectology Meets Typology: Dialect Grammar from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective (review) (2007) (0)
BOOK REVIEW METAPHOR AND METONYMY IN DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS (2015) (0)
Metaphorical descriptions of pain on a Trigeminal Neuralgia Forum:Pushing the Boundaries of Cognitive Linguistics (2019) (0)
Rendering the ungraspable graspable: the use of metaphors in Swedish palliative cancer care (2016) (0)
outputs ‘ Good ’ and ‘ bad ’ deaths : narratives and professional identities in interviews with hospice manage (2016) (0)
Language and context(s):Jane Gardam’s ‘Bilgewater’. (2000) (0)
Health Professionals’ Metaphors for Good and Bad Deaths (2017) (0)
Background : Metaphor, Corpus Linguistics and Communication About Cancer and the End of Life (2017) (0)
Metaphors for the Relationship Between Patients and Healthcare Professionals (2017) (0)
An analysis of the use of «almost» and (1991) (0)
Hallucinations and mind style in 'Henry’s Demons' (2014) (0)
Rethinking 'inferred' thought presentation (2011) (0)
1234 Visual field changes in carotid obstructive disease (1995) (0)
Egocentrism and anthropocentrism in language and discourse (2017) (0)
Rethinking "Inferred" Thought Presentation: Some Reflections on Palmer's "Social Minds" (2011) (0)
Italian and the English S-Genitive: A Contrastive Analysis and its Pedagogical Implications for the Teaching of Italian as a Foreign Language. (1995) (0)
1235 High-pass resolution perimetry vs static threshold perimetry in advanced primary open-angle glaucoma (1995) (0)
Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences (review) (2007) (0)

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