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.