Elena Semino (born 9 September 1964) is an Italian-born British linguist whose research involves stylistics and metaphor theory. Focusing on figurative language in a range of poetic and prose works, most recently she has worked on topics from the domains of medical humanities and health communication. Her projects use corpus linguistic methods as well as qualitative analysis.
She served as Head of the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University from 2013 to 2019.
ElenaSemino (born 9 September 1964) is an Italian-born British linguist whose research involves stylistics and metaphor theory. Focusing on figurative...
Applied Linguistics – Professor of Linguistics, Lancaster University ElenaSemino, PhD in Applied Linguistics – Professor of Linguistics, Lancaster University...
having died after a "short fight with cancer". Research in 2014 led by ElenaSemino, a professor of linguistics at Lancaster University, alongside palliative...
researchers Paul Baker Jonathan Culpeper Norman Fairclough Veronika Koller Tony McEnery ElenaSemino Theo van Leeuwen Ruth Wodak Teun A. van Dijk Gunther Kress...
researchers Paul Baker Jonathan Culpeper Norman Fairclough Veronika Koller Tony McEnery ElenaSemino Theo van Leeuwen Ruth Wodak Teun A. van Dijk Gunther Kress...
of haplogroup R in the form of its subclades, R1a and R1b (Rosser 2000, Semino 2000). R1 and its sibling clade R2 (R-M79) are the only immediate descendants...
forms, is remarkable. On the upper floor are 16th century frescoes by the Semino and Calvi brothers. The most famous works, however, are the fresco cycles...
lands). This claim may not only be political: according to a 2000 study by Semino, 35.6% of Czech males have y-chromosome haplogroup R1b, which is common...
(E-M78, formerly E3b1a) and E1b1b1b (E-M81, formerly E3b1b). A study from Semino (published 2004) showed that Y-chromosome haplotype E1b1b1b (E-M81), is...
Tursi, belonging to Niccolò Grimaldi, Baldassarre's son-in-law. Andrea Semino frescoed its halls with Roman stories. Of the original 16th-century façade...
(2012). The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human. Houghton. Semino, Elena and Jonathan Culpeper (2002). Cognitive Stylistics: Language and Cognition...
16th century, covering the vaults of three rooms, attributed to Andrea Semino and his workshop. The main room hosts the large fresco with «The Rape of...
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