Lecturer in Applied Linguistics
PhD Post-Graduate Teachers' Qualification BA
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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 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 (with special focus on Folk Etymology) in English. If you are considering doing an MRes, an MPhil or a PhD or a Post-Doc in one of these areas or a related area, please contact me.
| Cognitive Linguistics & Cognitive Discourse Analysis in Health Communication: | |
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Impersonalisation, authority, factuality and persuasion in lay and professional health discourse, especially on government/non-government websites dealing with immunisation, and in medical research articles and news papers. |
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Language and cognition in communication about drinking water - Projects include: Consumer Perceptions and Attitudes towards EDCs and PPCPs in Drinking Water (Water Research Foundation); The impact of language and cognition on compliance during a natural disaster (Leverhulme Trust ); Improving communication on Cryptosporidium and 'Boil Water' notices: Lessons from Pitsford (DWI/DEFRA). Collaborations with Lisa Ragain at AquaVitae, and Paul Hunter at UEA. |
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Cognitive Discourse Analysis in Mental Health (with Olivia Knapton at KCL) |
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Figurative Language in typically developing children and adults, children and adults with Autism, and children and adults with Williams syndrome. Collaborations with Jo Van Herwegen at KCL/Kingston, Yani Malai at KCL, Dagmara Annaz at Middlesex University, Michael Thomas at Birkbeck, and Annette Karmiloff-Smith at Birkbeck. |
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Bilingualism and Access/Storage (with Sarah Tashkandy, Joanna John and Agnieszka Tytus at KCL). |
| current and recent MPhil/PhD students: | |
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Sarah Tashkandy: Word Order Effects in Arabic-English Bilinguals living in Britain and Saudi (funded by a four year Saudi Cultural Bureau studentship - 2006-2009) |
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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 - 2007-2009) |
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Joanna John: Patterns of Activation in Punjabi-English and French-English bilinguals in Britain (funded by a grant from the University of London Central Research Fund) |
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Svenja Von Holt: Categorisation and Relation Detection in Autism (funded by a four year ESRC Quota studentship) |
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Agnieszka Tytus: Bilingual lexical memory: processing of lexical items in Mandarin Chinese and English |
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Olivia Knapton: The language used by children and young people with early-onset versus late-onset obsessive-compulsive disorder (funded by a three year ESRC Quota studentship) |
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Yani Malai: Figurative Language Use in Typical Children and Children with Autism (funded by a three year Brunei studentship) |
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Jeanne Sii: Agreeing & Disagreeing in Written Linguistics Discourse |
| visiting MPhil/PhD students: | |
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Nina Tudjman Vukovic: Cognitive analysis of English and Croatian verbs of speaking (visit funded by the British Academy) |
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Zhao Ying: A corpus-based study of the use of conjuncts in Chinese and British undergraduates' writing in English (visit funded by the Tianjin University of Science & Technology) |
Publications
in preparation:
Knapton, O., and Rundblad, G. The discourse of a drinking water emergency in UK media: a cognitive approach to discourse analysis.
Rundblad, G., and Knapton, O. Media communication on drinking water and safe behaviour: a comparison of the different stages of a natural disaster.
Rundblad, G. Debating vaccine preventable diseases and vaccines online.
Rundblad, G., Annaz, D., and Van Herwegen, J. Comprehension of lexicalised metaphors and metonyms: a developmental study of typically developing children and children with Williams Syndrome.
submitted:
Rundblad, G. Why some messages speak better: child immunisation in media and on the internet.
Knapton, O., Hunter, P., and Rundblad, G. Do the causes and circumstances of water incidents impact consumer behaviour?
published/in press:
Van Herwegen, J., Rundblad, G., Davelaar, E., and Annaz, D. In press. Variability and standardised test profiles in typically developing children and children with Williams syndrome. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.
Rundblad, G., Knapton, O., and Hunter, P. 2010. Communication, perception and behaviour during a natural disaster involving a ‘Do Not Drink’ and a subsequent ‘Boil Water’ notice: a postal questionnaire study. BMC Public Health 10:641. This article has been nominated for the 5th BMC Annual Research Award in Medicine for 2010.
Rundblad, G. 2007. Impersonal, General and
Social: The use of metonymy versus passive voice in medical discourse.
Written Communication 24: 250-277.
This article is the winner of Best Article Reporting Qualitative or Quantitative
Research in Technical or Scientific Communication. Awarded in 2008 by 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.
Conference organisation
4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference. To be held at King’s College London in London, 2012.
17th Euro-International Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference . London, 2005.
Symposium/Workshop organisation
Communication challenges faced by the UK water industry. Knowledge Transfer Workshop featuring talks from academics and communications professionals from the water industry and wider stakeholders, discussing a wide range of recent communication challenges, London 2010.
Cross-Modal Mapping, Metaphor and Language: Lessons from Atypical Development. Special symposium held as part of the conference "Lived Experience, Metaphor and Multimodality: Implications in Communication, Education, Learning and Knowledge", Crete 2008.
Talks
'The development of novel metaphor and metonymy comprehension in typically developing children'. Joint with Jo Van Herwegen and Dagmara Annaz. International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Montreal 2011.
'The atypical development of metaphor and metonymy
comprehension in children with autism'. Invited presentation, Awares
Autism, 2010
'Children and adolescents’ understanding of metaphors
and metonyms: Issues in current theory, evidence and methods'. 3rd Conference
of the UK Cognitive Linguistics Association, Hertfordshire 2010
'Communication about drinking water safety: A cognitive discourse analysis
approach'. Joint with Olivia Knapton. 3rd Conference of the UK Cognitive
Linguistics Association, Hertfordshire 2010
'Communicating safe
behaviour to the general public: A comparison of the different stages of a
natural disaster'. Joint with Olivia Knapton. Communication, Medicine and
Ethics, Boston 2010
'Media communication during a natural disaster'.
Joint with Olivia Knapton. Society for Risk Analysis-Europe conference, London
2010
'Consumer perception, behaviour and compliance
with public health advice on drinking water'. Invited presentation, AWWA/CDC, Atlanta, 2009
'Why risk behaviour and compliance during natural disasters
differs significantly from human error events and what we can do about it'.
Joint with Olivia Knapton and Paul Hunter. American Public Health Association
Conference, Philadelphia 2009
'Risk behaviour and compliancy following
boil water notices due to a natural disaster versus a human error incident'.
Joint with Olivia Knapton and Paul Hunter. Health Protection Agency Conference,
Warwick 2009
'Explaining development of comprehension of novel metaphors
and metonyms in Williams Syndrome'. Joint with Jo Van Herwegen and Dagmara
Annaz. BPS Developmental Psychology Section Conference, Nottingham 2009
'Linguistic Aspects of Vaccine Safety Publications'. Invited talk, Brighton
Collaboration, London 2008.
'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.
'Health Protection Communication'. Joint with Paul
Chilton. Invited talk, Health Protection Agency, Norwich 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
ViVI Implementation Working Group (formerly Brighton Collaboration Implementation Working Group), member of international group working on vaccine safety standards and communication to the general public
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