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She received her Master of Arts in 1990 and her Doctor of Philosophy in 1994 from the University of Lancaster.
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Elena Semino
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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. Semino earned her Bachelor in 1988 in Foreign Languages and Literature from the University of Genoa.
She taught Italian as a foreign language at Napier Polytechnic (Edinburgh) and at Lancaster University.
In 1992 she took a position as lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Lancaster, and became a senior Senior Lecturer in Linguistics there in 2003. She is currently a Professor of Linguistics and Verbal Art and serves as Head of the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University.
She serves on the editorial board of Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines and Metaphor and the Social World. Semino has been a co-Principal Investigator on grants from the United Kingdom’s Economic and Social Research Council (Economic and Social Research Council) and the Brazilian research agency CONFAP to study the linguistic representation of urban violence in Brazil using corpus linguistics methods, and a project to funded by Economic and Social Research Council that details how metaphors are used in end-of-life care in the United Kingdom (MELC).
