Professor Elena Semino

Distinguished Professor

Current Teaching

LING 102: English Language

LING 103: Linguistics

LING 210: Stylistics

LING 450: Stylistics

LING 557: Corpus-based Discourse Analysis

Young people, criticality and figurative language
01/10/2024 → 31/03/2027
Research

CASS Legacy funding
01/06/2024 → 31/05/2029
Research

DSI: Horizon Europe: 4D PICTURE: Design-based Data-Driven Decision-support Tools: Producing Improved Cancer Outcomes Through User- Centred Research
01/10/2022 → 30/09/2027
Research

A discourse analysis on public attitudes to rape and serious sexual offences (RASSO)
01/09/2022 → 31/12/2024
Research

DDPO DISCOURSE ANALYSIS PROJECT
01/07/2022 → 31/12/2024
Research

The Future of Human Reproduction: new agendas and methods for the Humanities and Social Sciences
22/04/2022 → 22/07/2025
Research

Interventions for better life-time mental health outcomes for young Australians (15-24 years) with disability
01/04/2022 → 31/03/2027
Research

DSI: Realist evaluation of online mental health communities to improve policy and practice
01/03/2022 → 30/06/2025
Research

Representations of ‘heart failure’ in English discourse
15/11/2021 → 20/12/2021
Research

Questioning Vaccination Discourse (Quo VaDis): A corpus-based study
01/03/2021 → 30/06/2024
Research

Social media discourse analysis – attitudes to young people’s mental health
01/02/2021 → 30/04/2021
Research

Corpus Analysis of Sellafield Employee Forum and Interviews
18/01/2021 → 31/03/2021
Research

Representations of 'race', racism and race equality in the UK press
10/02/2020 → 15/04/2020
Research

Representations of Social Care in the Politicians’ and General Public’s Discourse
15/11/2019 → 31/01/2020
Research

Representations of Social Care in the UK press: A Computer-aided Linguistic Study
01/05/2019 → 31/08/2019
Research

The psychological validity of non-adjacent collocations: Evidence from event-related brain potentials
01/04/2019 → 31/03/2020
Research

Linguistic challenges of the transition from primary to secondary school
01/09/2018 → 30/04/2021
Research

CASS ESRC Transition Funding
01/04/2018 → 31/01/2024
Research

Representations of social care in the UK press: A pilot study
01/04/2018 → 31/05/2018
Research

Lancaster University Business Plan – ESRC Business Boost Fund
01/02/2018 → 31/03/2019
Research

Big data media analysis and the representation of urban violence in Brazil
01/01/2015 → 31/12/2015
Research

Translating science for young people
14/11/2014 → 14/07/2016
Research

ESRC centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science - CASS
31/03/2013 → 30/03/2018
Research

Metaphor in End of Life Care
01/09/2012 → 28/06/2014
Research

Using a semantic annotation tool for research on metaphor in discourse
01/12/2005 → …
Research

LAEL-China Network
01/01/1900 → …
Other

Evolving accents: Unravelling the mysteries of sound change
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

The science of multilingualism
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

The shared anti-science discourses
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Fabulosa! A brief history of Polari, the lost language of camp
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Vaccination is a huge global health success, so why do people hesitate?
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Panel event for International Consortium for Communication in Health Care series
Invited talk

Communication about vaccinations: What can linguistic analysis reveal?
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Questioning Vaccination Discourse (Quo VaDis) – A corpus linguistic study of public debates and discourses around vaccinations
Invited talk

Narratives, information and persuasion in online discussions of HPV vaccination
Invited talk

More Than Words:using Languages expertise to support government thinking
Invited talk

Metaphor, illness and the end of life
Invited talk

Vaccination Discourse Seminar
Invited talk

Metaphor, and why it matters
Invited talk

Understanding carers’ perspectives of supporting friends and family members who have experienced suicidal behaviour
Oral presentation

A corpus of Victorian anti-vaccination discourse.
Invited talk

Talk at 3rd International Conference on Historical Medical Discourse
Invited talk

Pain: why and how language matters
Invited talk

Metaphors and Covid-19
Invited talk

DDPO DISCOURSE ANALYSIS PROJECT
Consultancy

Representations of rape and serious sexual offences in the press and on Twitter
Consultancy

Talking health online: Why it matters and what linguistics can contribute
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

A corpus-based study of representations of social care during the 2019 UK General Election campaign
Oral presentation

A corpus linguistic approach to the evaluation of medication safety oversight programs in the United States
Oral presentation

Social care in the UK press: A corpus-based study in collaboration with third-sector organisations
Oral presentation

Poetics and Linguistics Association Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

4th International Cognitive Poetics Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Keynote lecture on 'Metaphor and Narrative in Health Communication' at 4th Conference of the European Narrative Network
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

ESRC (External organisation)
Membership of committee

Talk on 'Corpus Linguistics and Health Communication' at Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Invited talk

Lectures in Stylistics and in Health Communication at Fuzhou University, China
Invited talk

Plenary lecture 'Metaphor and Framing in Discourse' at UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Talk on 'Corpus Linguistics and Health Communication' at Georgetown University
Invited talk

Talk on 'Metaphor in End of Life Care' at Sheffield Hallam University
Invited talk

Talk on 'Metaphor in End of Life Care' at Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Invited talk

Talk on Metaphor in End of Life Care at the University of Glasgow
Invited talk

Plenary lecture at symposium on 'The Creating Mind: Interdisciplinary Perspectives', Bar-Ilan University
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Talk on 'Metaphor, creativity and reconceptualisation across genres' at An-Najah National University (West Bank)
Invited talk

Plenary lecture at Cognitive Poetics Symposium in Helsinki
Invited talk

Keynote lecture at 2013 Metaphor Festival in Stockholm
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Invited talks on language and pain at the UK Trigeminal Neuralgia Association Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Plenary lecture at 'Cognitive Futures of the Humanities' Conference: Reading Minds that can't Mindread
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Talk on 'A linguistic perspective on the McGill pain questionnaire', at London's Eastman Dental Hospital
Invited talk

Lectures in Stylistics at Fuzhou University in China
Invited talk

Lecture at 'Pragma-stylistics' Colloquium, University of Sussex
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Talk on 'Metaphor, creativity and reconceptualization in communication about illness', University of Uppsala
Invited talk

Workshop on 'Language, Mind and Autism in Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time', University of Uppsala
Invited talk

Talk on 'Language, Mind and Autism in Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time', University of Goettingen
Invited talk

Talk on 'Metaphor, creativity and reconceptualisation', University of East Anglia
Invited talk

  • DisTex - Discourse and Text Research Group
  • ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science
  • FASS Health Hub
  • Institute for Social Futures Fellow
  • ISF Fellows 2019/20
  • Research Group in Cognitive Linguistics
  • UCREL - University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language