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Professor Elena Semino

Distinguished Professor

  1. Published

    Pragmatic failure, mind style and characterisation in fiction about autism

    Semino, E., 8/05/2014, In: Language and Literature. 23, 2, p. 141-158 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  2. Published

    ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ deaths: narratives and professional identities in interviews with hospice managers

    Semino, E., Demjen, Z. & Koller, V., 2014, In: Discourse Studies. 16, 5, p. 667-685 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  3. Published

    The online use of Violence and Journey metaphors by patients with cancer, as compared with health professionals: a mixed methods study

    Semino, E., Demjen, Z., Demmen, J., Koller, V., Payne, S., Hardie, A. & Rayson, P., 1/03/2017, In: BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care. 7, 1, p. 60-66 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  4. Published

    The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language

    Semino, E. (Editor) & Demjen, Z. (Editor), 2017, London: Routledge. 544 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsAnthology

  5. Published

    An integrated approach to metaphor and framing in cognition, discourse and practice, with an application to metaphors for cancer

    Semino, E., Demjen, Z. & Demmen, J. E., 1/10/2018, In: Applied Linguistics. 39, 5, p. 625-645 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Using metaphor in healthcare: physical health

    Semino, E. & Demjen, Z., 2017, The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language. Semino, E. & Demjen, Z. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 385-399 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  7. Published

    Images and the dynamics of pain consultations

    Semino, E., Zakrzewska, J. M. & Williams, A., 25/03/2017, In: The Lancet. 389, 10075, p. 1186-1187 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Source “scenes” and source “domains” : insights from a corpus-based study of metaphors for communication.

    Semino, E. & Heywood, J., 2005, Proceeding of the Third Interdisciplinary Workshop on Corpus-Based Approaches to Figurative Language. Birmingham: University of Birmingham

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  9. Published

    Corpus linguistics and metaphor

    Semino, E., 2017, The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Dancygier, B. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  10. Published

    The cancer card: Metaphor, intimacy and humor in online interactions about the experience of cancer

    Semino, E. & Demjen, Z., 2017, Metaphor: Embodied Cognition and Discourse. Hampe, B. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, p. 181-199 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  11. Published

    Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life: A Corpus-based Study

    Semino, E., Demjen, Z., Hardie, A., Payne, S. A. & Rayson, P. E., 2018, London: Routledge. 308 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  12. Published

    Mind style twenty-five years on

    Semino, E., 1/06/2007, In: Style. 41, 2, p. 153-172 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  13. Published

    A corpus-based study of metaphors for speech activity in British English

    Semino, E., 22/08/2008, Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy. De Gruyter Mouton, p. 36-62 27 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  14. Published

    Possible worlds and mental spaces in Hemingway's 'A very short story'

    Semino, E., 20/02/2003, Cognitive Poetics in Practice. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 83-98 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  15. Published

    Possible worlds in poetry

    Semino, E., 1/01/1996, In: Journal of Literary Semantics. 25, 3, p. 189–224 36 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  16. Published

    Metaphorical descriptions of pain on a Trigeminal Neuralgia Forum: Pushing the Boundaries of Cognitive Linguistics

    Semino, E., 1/06/2019, Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to text and Discourse: From Poetics to Politics. Hart, C. (ed.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 73-92 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  17. Published

    Afterword: Some reflections on MIPVU across languages

    Semino, E., 2019, Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU around the World. Nacey, S., Dorst, A. G., Krennmayr, T. & Reijnierse, W. G. (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, p. 313-321 9 p. (Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research; vol. 22).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  18. Published

    Applying Corpus Linguistics to a diagnostic tool for pain

    Semino, E., Hardie, A. & Zakrzewska, J., 2020, Applying Linguistics in Illness and Healthcare Contexts. Demjen, Z. (ed.). London: Bloomsbury, p. 99-127 29 p. (Contemporary Studies in Linguistics).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  19. Published

    Person-ness of voices in lived experience accounts of psychosis: Combining literary linguistics and clinical psychology

    Semino, E., Demjen, Z. & Collins, L., 30/09/2021, In: Medical Humanities. 47, 3, p. 354-364 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  20. Published

    “Not soldiers but fire-fighters” – Metaphors and Covid-19

    Semino, E., 2/01/2021, In: Health Communication. 36, 1, p. 50-58 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  21. Published

    COVID-19: A forest fire rather than a wave?

    Semino, E., 31/01/2021, In: Metode. 2021, 11, p. 5 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  22. Published

    Language and images in pain consultations

    Semino, E., 15/02/2021, Encountering Pain: Hearing, Seeing, Speaking. Padfield, D. & Zakrzewska, J. M. (eds.). London: UCL Press, p. 269-285 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  23. Published

    Silences in First-Person Accounts of Voice-Hearing: A Linguistic Approach

    Semino, E., Collins, L. & Demjén, Z., 8/09/2022, Voices in Psychosis: Interdisciplinary perspectives. Woods, A., Alderson-Day, B. & Fernyhough, C. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  24. Published

    Communicating research on metaphor and illness

    Semino, E., 19/01/2023, Communicating Linguistics: Language, Community and Public Engagement. Price, H. & McIntyre, D. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 143-155 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  25. Published

    Health Communication

    Semino, E., 30/12/2022, Introducing Linguistics. Culpeper, J., Malory, B., Nance, C., van Olmen, D., Atanasova, D., Kirkham, S. & Casaponsa, A. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 276-290 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  26. Published

    Pro-vaccination personal narratives in response to online hesitancy about the HPV vaccine: The challenge of tellability

    Semino, E., Coltman-Patel, T., Dance, W., Demjen, Z. & Hardaker, C., 1/11/2023, In: Discourse and Society. 34, 6, p. 752-771 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  27. Published

    Narratives, information and manifestations of resistance to persuasion in online discussions of HPV vaccination

    Semino, E., Coltman-Patel, T., Dance, W., Deignan, A., Demjen, Z., Hardaker, C. & Mackey, A., 31/08/2024, In: Health Communication. 39, 10, p. 2123-2134 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  28. Published

    ‘It’s a shot, not a vaccine like MMR’: A new type of vaccine-specific scepticism on Twitter/X during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Semino, E., Coltman-Patel, T., Dance, W., Demjen, Z., Gleave, R. & Mackey, A., 31/03/2025, In: Vaccine X. 23, 100620.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  29. Published

    Revisiting the notion of faithfulness in discourse: report/(re)presentation using a corpus approach.

    Short, M., Semino, E. & Wynne, M., 2001, Poetics, linguistics and history : discourses of war and conflict. Biermann, I. & Combrink, A. (eds.). Potchefstroom, South Africa: Potchefstroom University, p. 484-509 26 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  30. Published

    Reading reports: discourse presentation in a corpus of narratives with special reference to news reports.

    Short, M. H., Wynne, M. & Semino, E., 1999, English via various media. Diller, H. J. & Stratman, E. O. G. (eds.). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C, p. 39-66 28 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  31. Published

    Language and context(s): Jane Gardam’s ‘Bilgewater’.

    Short, M. H., Semino, E. & Culpeper, J., 2000, Contextualised stylistics: in honour of Peter Verdonk. Bex, T., Burke, M. & Stockwell, P. (eds.). Amsterdam: Rodopi, p. 131-151 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  32. Published

    Revisiting the notion of faithfulness in discourse presentation using a corpus approach.

    Short, M. H., Semino, E. & Wynne, M., 2002, In: Language and Literature. 11, 4, p. 325-355 31 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

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  34. Published

    Stylistics and Literary Evaluation

    Short, M. H. & Semino, E., 2008, The quality of literature: Linguistic Studies in Literary evaluation. van Peer, W. (ed.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, p. 117-37 243 p. (Linguistic Approaches to Literature).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  35. Published

    Using a corpus for stylistics research : speech presentation.

    Short, M., Semino, E. & Culpeper, J., 1996, Using Corpora in Language Research. Thomas, J. & Short, M. (eds.). Harlow: Longman, p. 110-131 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  36. Published

    Narrative skill in Bilgewater's prologue

    Short, M. H., Semino, E. & Culpeper, J., 2006, The Art of English: Literary Creativity. Goodman, S. & O'Halloran, K. (eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 407-413 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  37. Published

    Shameless normalisation of impoliteness: Berlusconi’s and Trump’s press conferences

    Wodak, R., Culpeper, J. & Semino, E., 1/05/2021, In: Discourse and Society. 32, 3, p. 369-393 25 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  38. Published

    A corpus-based investigation of speech, thought and writing presentation in English narrative texts.

    Wynne, M., Short, M. & Semino, E., 1998, Explorations in Corpus Linguistics. Renouf, A. (ed.). 23 ed. Amsterdam: Rodopi, p. 233-247 15 p. (Language and computers).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

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