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Professor Elena Semino

Distinguished Professor

  1. Published

    Deixis and the dynamics of poetic voice.

    Semino, E., 1995, New Essays in Deixis. Green, K. (ed.). 103 ed. Amsterdam: Rodopi, p. 145-160 16 p. (Costerus, new series).

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

  2. Published

    Deixis and fictional minds

    Semino, E., 2011, In: Style. 45, 3, p. 418-440 23 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  3. 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

  4. Published

    Corpus techniques for metaphor analysis.

    Deignan, A. & Semino, E., 2010, Metaphor Analysis: Research Practice in Applied Linguistics, Social Sciences and the Humanities. Cameron, L. & Maslen, R. (eds.). London: Equinox, p. 161-179 (Studies in Applied Linguistics).

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

  5. Published

    Corpus stylistics: speech, writing and thought presentation in a corpus of English writing.

    Semino, E. & Short, M. H., 2004, London: Routledge. 256 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  6. 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

  7. Published

    Corpus Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: Investigating 'personification' in first-person accounts of voice-hearing

    Collins, L., Brezina, V., Demjén, Z., Semino, E. & Woods, A., 31/01/2023, In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 28, 1, p. 28-59 31 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Constructing witches and spells: speech acts and activity types in early modern England.

    Culpeper, J. & Semino, E., 2000, In: Journal of Historical Pragmatics. 1, 1, p. 97-116 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  9. 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

  10. Published

    Communicating nuanced results in language consultancy: The case of cancer and the Violence metaphor

    Demjen, Z. & Semino, E., 1/07/2020, Professional Communication: Consultancy, advocacy, activism . Mullany, L. (ed.). London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 191-210 20 p. (Communicating in Professions and Organizations).

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

  11. Published

    Cognitive stylistics: language and cognition in text analysis.

    Semino, E. (Editor) & Culpeper, J. (Editor), 2002, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 333 p. (Linguistic approaches to literature)

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsAnthology

  12. Published

    Cognitive poetics

    Semino, E., 2006, The art of English. Goodman, S. & O'Halloran, K. (eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 37-44 8 p.

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

  13. Published

    Cancer experiences in metaphors: A scoping review in 4D PICTURE Project

    Liu, Y., Payne, S., Rayson, P., Lal, D., Korfage, I., Rietjens, J. & Semino, E., 9/05/2024, In: Palliative Medicine. 38, Suppl. 2024 EAPC WR Congress, A05.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineMeeting abstractpeer-review

  14. Published

    Cancer experience in metaphors: patients, carers, professionals, students: A scoping review

    Liu, Y., Semino, E., Rietjens, J. & Payne, S., 19/12/2024, In: BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care. 14, e3, p. e2366-e2376 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineReview articlepeer-review

  15. Published

    Cancer as a metaphor

    Potts, A. & Semino, E., 1/06/2019, In: Metaphor and Symbol. 34, 2, p. 81-95 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  16. Published

    Building on Keith Green’s “Deixis and the Poetic Persona”: further reflections on deixis in poetry.

    Semino, E., 1992, In: Language and Literature. 1, 2, p. 135-140 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  17. Published

    Blending and characters' mental functioning in Virginia Woolf's Lappin and Lapinova.

    Semino, E., 2006, In: Language and Literature. 15, 1, p. 55-72 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-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

    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

  20. 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

  21. Published

    Acting like a hedgehog in times of pandemic: Metaphorical creativity in the #reframecovid collection

    Pérez-Sobrino, P., Semino, E., Ibarretxe-Antuñano, I., Koller, V. & Olza, I., 30/04/2022, In: Metaphor and Symbol. 37, 2, p. 127-139 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  22. Published

    A sturdy baby or a derailing train? Metaphorical representations of the euro in British and Italian newspapers.

    Semino, E., 2002, In: Text. 22, 1, p. 107-139 33 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  23. Published

    A method for annotating metaphors in corpora.

    Semino, E. & Steen, G., 2001.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paper

  24. Published

    A linguistic approach to the psychosis continuum: (dis)similarities and (dis)continuities in how clinical and non-clinical voice-hearers talk about their voices

    Collins, L., Semino, E., Demjén, Z., Hardie, A., Moseley, P., Woods, A. & Alderson-Day, B., 16/11/2020, In: Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. 25, 6, p. 447-465 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  25. Published

    A linguistic analysis of female and male Opening posts on an online forum dedicated to pain

    Collins, L. & Semino, E., 31/12/2024, In: Language and Health. 2, 2, p. 1-32 32 p., 100024.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  26. Published

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

    Semino, E., 2006, Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics: Conceptual Metaphors. Gries, S. T. & Stefanowitsch, A. (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, p. 35-60 26 p.

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

  27. 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

  28. Published

    A corpus-based study of ‘mixed metaphor’ as a metalinguistic comment

    Semino, E., 16/03/2016, Mixing metaphor. R. W. Jr, G. (ed.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, p. 203-220 18 p. (Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication; vol. 6).

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

  29. 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

  30. Published

    A computer-assisted study of the use of violence metaphors for cancer and end of life by patients, family carers and health professionals

    Demmen, J. E., Semino, E., Demjen, Z., Koller, V., Hardie, A., Rayson, P. & Payne, S., 17/08/2015, In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 20, 2, p. 205-231 27 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  31. Published

    A computer-assisted approach to the analysis of metaphor variation across genres.

    Semino, E., Hardie, A., Koller, V. & Rayson, P., 2005, Corpus-based Approaches to Figurative Language. . Barnden, J., Lee, M., Littlemore, J., Moon, R., Philip, G. & Wallington, A. (eds.). Birmingham: University of Birmingham School of Computer Science, p. 145-153 9 p.

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

  32. Published

    A cognitive stylistic approach to mind style in narrative fiction.

    Semino, E., 2002, Cognitive stylistics: language and cognition in text analysis. Semino, E. & Culpeper, J. (eds.). 1 ed. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, p. 95-122 28 p. (Linguistic approaches to literature).

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

  33. Published

    “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

    Demjen, Z., Marszalek, A., Semino, E. & Varese, F., 16/04/2020, Applying Linguistics in Illness and Healthcare Contexts. Demjen, Z. (ed.). London: Bloomsbury, p. 17-43 27 p. (Contemporary Studies in Linguistics).

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

  34. 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

  35. 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

  36. Published

    ‘I am still unsure…’ – Spontaneous expressions of vaccine indecision on Mumsnet

    Demjen, Z., Brezina, V., Coltman-Patel, T., Dance, W., Gleave, R., Hardaker, C. & Semino, E., 30/04/2025, In: Applied Corpus Linguistics. 5, 1, 100122.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  37. 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

  38. Published

    ‘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

    Coltman-Patel, T., Dance, W., Demjén, Z., Hardaker, C., Gatherer, D. & Semino, E., 31/08/2022, In: Discourse, Context and Media. 48, 9 p., 100624.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

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