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Dr Gabriella Rundblad
Lecturer in Applied Linguistics PhD Post-Graduate Teachers' Qualification BA |
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Research
My current research projects are in the areas of Cognitive Linguistics (with special focus on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Health Communication) and Typical/Atypical Language Development using a combination of Psycholinguistic and Discourse Analysis approaches, whereas my earlier research was on Semantic & Lexical Variation and Change in English, using a Corpus Linguistic approach. If you are considering doing an MRes, an MPhil or a PhD in one of these areas or a related area, please contact me.
| Cognitive Linguistics & Health Communication: | |
| Conceptualisations of authority and factuality in lay and professional health discourse, especially immunisation. | |
| Impersonalisation, persuasion and identity in medical research articles | |
| Semantics, pragmatics and risk behaviour, in particular, crisis communication about drinking water - The impact of language and cognition on compliance during a natural disaster (funded by a Leverhulme Trust grant) - with Paul Hunter at UEA. | |
| Cognitive and cultural elements of folk-etymology (with David Kronenfeld at UC Riverside) | |
| Implications of Semantic/Pragmatic Impairments on Cognitive Linguistic Theory | |
| Typical/Atypical Language Development: | |
| Figurative Language in typically developing children and adults (with Dagmara Annaz at Edinburgh University) | |
| Figurative Language in children with autism (with Dagmara Annaz at Edinburgh University, and Anna Ferdenzi at Livingstone Primary School) | |
| Figurative Language in children and adults with Williams Syndrome (with Dagmara Annaz at Edinburgh, Jo Van Herwegen at KCL, Michael Thomas at Birkbeck, Roza Fishman at Birkbeck, and Annette Karmiloff-Smith at Birkbeck ) | |
| Gender and Plural form assignment in Swedish: L1 and L2 (funded by a British Academy grant) | |
| The effect of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) on Swedish morphology | |
| Bilingual Access and Storage (with Sarah Tashkandy and Joanna John at KCL) | |
| current MPhil/PhD students: | |
| Sarah Tashkandy: Word Order Effects in Arabic-English Bilinguals living in Britain and Saudi (funded by a three year Saudi Cultural Bureau studentship) | |
| Jo Van Herwegen: Figurative Language in children/adolescents with Williams Syndrome (funded by a three year ESRC Open Competition studentship and grants from the Williams Syndrome Foundation, UK, and the University of London Central Research Fund) | |
| Joanna John: Patterns of Activation, Transfer and Attrition in Hindi-English bilinguals in Britain | Svenja Von Holt: Categorisation and Relation Detection in Autism (funded by a four year ESRC Quota studentship) |
| visiting MPhil/PhD students: | |
| Nina Tudjman Vukovic: Cognitive analysis of English and Croatian verbs of speaking (visit funded by the British Academy) | |
Publications
submitted/under review:
Rundblad, G., and Annaz, D. under review. The atypical development of metaphor and metonymy comprehension in children with Autism.
Rundblad, G., and Annaz, D. under review. Metaphor and metonymy comprehension: receptive vocabulary and conceptual knowledge.
published/in press:
Annaz, D., Van Herwegen, J., Thomas, M., Fishman, R., Karmiloff-Smith, A. and Rundblad, G. in press. The comprehension of metaphor and metonymy in children with Williams syndrome. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders.
Rundblad, G. 2007. Impersonal, General and Social: The use of metonymy versus passive voice in medical discourse. Written Communication 24: 250-277.
Winner of Best Article Reporting Qualitative or Quantitative Research in Technical or Scientific Communication. Awarded in 2008 by the the National Council Teachers of English (NCTE).
Rundblad, G. 2000. Regularity and Regular Irregularity? In Falk, J., Magnusson, G., Melchers, G., and Nilsson, B. (eds.), Contrasts in Language, 167-187. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International.
Rundblad, G., and Kronenfeld, D. 2000. Meaning in the Lexicon: Cultural implication. In Eckardt, R., and von Heusinger, K. (eds.), Meaning Change - Meaning Variation, 161-171. Konstanz: Konstanz University.
Rundblad, G. 1998. Shallow Brooks and Rivers Wide - A Study of Lexical and Semantic Change in English Nouns Denoting 'Watercourse'. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International.
Rundblad, G. 1998. Stability in the Theory of Language Change. In Haukioja, T. (ed.), Papers from the 16th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, 369-380. Turku: Turun yliopisto.
Symposia
Cross-Modal Mapping, Metaphor and Language: Lessons from Atypical Development. Lived Experience, Metaphor and Multimodality: Implications in Communication, Education, Learning and Knowledge, Crete 2008.
Talks
'Language dominance as an influence on bilinguals’ word order reliance in written
Comprehension'. Joint with Sarah Tashkandy. Models of Interaction in Bilinguals, Bangor 2008.
'Dissemination and Communication: "Selling" Vaccines to Peers and the General Public'. Invited talk, Ehrlich II – 2nd World Conference on Magic Bullets, Nürnberg 2008.
'Precursors to Metaphor: Theoretical Implications'. Lived Experience, Metaphor and Multimodality:
Implications in Communication, Education, Learning and Knowledge, Crete 2008.
'Embodiment, Metaphor and Language: Problems and Potentials'. Joint with Jordan Zlatev. Lived Experience, Metaphor and Multimodality:
Implications in Communication, Education, Learning and Knowledge, Crete 2008.
'Metaphor processing in Autism'. Joint with Dagmara Annaz. Lived Experience, Metaphor and Multimodality:
Implications in Communication, Education, Learning and Knowledge, Crete 2008.
'Metaphor processing in Williams Syndrome'. Joint with Dagmara Annaz. Lived Experience, Metaphor and Multimodality: Implications in Communication, Education, Learning and Knowledge, Crete 2008.
'How does word order and age of acquisition affect sentence comprehension in English-Arabic bilinguals?'. Joint with Sarah Tashkandy. Language, Communication & Cognition, Brighton 2008.
'Is metaphor comprehension in Williams Syndrome normal, delayed or impaired?'. Joint with Jo Van Herwegen and Dagmara Annaz. Language, Communication & Cognition, Brighton 2008.
'Relating metaphor and metonymy in autism'. Joint with Dagmara Annaz. 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Krakow 2007.
'Differences in use of passive voice and/or metonymy for oneself versus other researchers in medical discourse'. Annual Conference of The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education (BAAHE), Leuven 2006.
'Making Meaning: developing an understanding of figurative language in children with Autism'. Invited talk, Department of Human Communication Science, University College London 2006.
'The understanding of metonymy and metaphor in children with autism'.
Joint with Dagmara Annaz and Anna Ferdenzi. 5th International Meeting For Autism Research (IMFAR),
Montreal 2006.
'Language Comprehension:
From Face Recognition to Mind Reading'. Invited talk, School of Education and Communication,
Jönköping University 2006.
'From Brain to Mind: Evolution, Break Down and Language'. Invited talk,
School of Education and Communication, Jönköping University 2006.
'Communication Strategies: communicating with
professional and lay audiences'. Invited talk, Water Contamination Events:
Communication with Consumers, Houston 2006.
'We, ourselves and who
else? The role of self versus others in conceptualisation of authority in
scientific discourse'. 1st New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics conference,
Brighton 2005.
'Mental Representations of Authority: the roles played
by professionals vs lay people in medical discourse'. Invited talk, School of
Humanities, King's College London 2005.
'Mental Representations of
Authority in Medical Discourse: the roles played by professionals vs lay
people'. Invited talk, English Department, Stockholm University 2005.
'We, ourselves and who else? The role of self versus others in
conceptualisation of authority in scientific discourse'. 3rd International
Conference on Discourse, Communication and Enterprise (DICOEN), Rio de Janeiro
2005.
'A psycholinguistic study of the English -s plural in Swedish:
Or how high proficiency in English among Swedes may have paved the way for the
English -s plural to become the regular plural form in Swedish'. 37th Annual
Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL), London 2004.
'Authority in Conceptual Space: a cognitive discourse analysis
approach'. International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind, Portsmouth
2004.
'Communication on Immunisation in Health Protection: a cognitive
discourse analysis approach'. Joint with Paul Chilton. Communication, Medicine
and Ethics (COMET), Linköping 2004.
'Relating Metaphor and
Metonymy: from comprehension and communication to the lack thereof'. Mind,
Language and Metaphor (EURESCO), Granada 2004.
'From observation to
evidence: granting objectivity and authority to subjective viewpoints in
discourse on medical research'. 8th International Cognitive Linguistics
Conference. Cognitive Linguistics, Functionalism, Discourse Studies: Common
Ground and New Directions, Logroño 2003.
'Natural language,
evidence and causation: medical journal reporting of MMR-related research'.
Joint with Paul Chilton and Paul Hunter. Communication, Medicine and
Ethics (COMET), Cardiff 2003.
'How quality came to lose to
quantity: Diachronic change in a semantic and lexical field'. Invited
talk, Department of Linguistics, University of Manchester 2001.
'Meaning in the Lexicon: Collective Inference and Change'. Joint with David
Kronenfeld. 21st Annual Meeting of the German Society of Linguistics, Konstanz
1999.
'Folk-Etymology: haphazard perversion or shrewd analogy'. Joint
with David Kronenfeld. 10th International Conference on English Historical
Linguistics, Manchester 1998.
'Changes in the English Language
Past, Present and Future'. Invited talk, ABF, Stockholm 1998.
'Culture and markedness as factors in the survival of Proto-Germanic
and Old English nouns'. History of English in a Social Context, Tulln, 1997.
'Semantic Change: Stability and Change in Lexical Fields'.
International Conference of Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf 1997.
'A study of nouns for "watercourse" in English place-names'.
Invited talk, Nordic Department, Uppsala University 1997.
'Lexical
fields and English Placenames'. Symposium on Writing in Nonstandard English,
Helsinki 1996.
'Stability in the Theory of Language Change'. 16th
Nordic Conference of Linguistics, Turku 1996.
Organisations
United Kingdom Cognitive Linguistics Association (UK-CLA), member of governing board
Psychology and Cognitive Processes (PCP), co-organiser of KCL research group
Current Issues in Psychology and Cognitive Processes, co-organiser of KCL seminar series
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