Linguistics Research Seminar Series (2)

Speakers

Susan Nacey (Inland Norway University)

 Susan Nacey is Professor of English as a second/foreign language, and currently works as the Vice Dean for Research at the Faculty of Education in Hamar/Lillehammer. Her research interests are metaphor and learner language, with a focus on Norwegian L2 English, as well as L2 Norwegian. She published a monograph entitled ‘<a href="https://benjamins.com/catalog/milcc.2" style="font-size: inherit; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(5, 103, 49); transition: color 0.15s;" target="_self">Metaphors in Learner English</a>‘ in 2013, dealing with metaphors produced in the written English of Norwegian students, as well as methodological issues concerning the Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIPVU). She was also responsible for collecting the Norwegian version of the  <a href="https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cecl/lindsei.html" style="font-size: inherit; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(5, 103, 49); transition: color 0.15s;" target="_self">LINDSEI</a> corpus (spoken learner English). The interviews and transcriptions are now completed and have been sent to Louvain to be included in the second edition of LINDSEI. She has carried out some preliminary research on the data on communication strategies, prepositions, and phrasal verbs. Among other things, she is currently involved in a project exploring learner translations of metaphor (L1 Norwegian to L2 English translations). She is also a collaborator in the <a href="https://www.cetaps.com/clil/international-projects/" style="font-size: inherit; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(5, 103, 49); transition: color 0.15s;" target="_self">MetCLIL project</a> led by researchers at the University of Extremadura, investigating the role of metaphor in university-level seminars where English is used as a medium of instruction.

 Prof. Nacey is also interested in the ‘language of betrayal’, metaphors produced by survivors of relationship abuse when they discuss their experiences in an online discussion forum. She has also been involved in the compilation of the <a href="https://app.cristin.no/projects/show.jsf?id=486170" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(5, 103, 49); font-size: inherit; transition: color 0.15s;" target="_self">TraWL</a> corpus (Tracking Written Learner Language), a longitudinal corpus of English texts written by Norwegian pupils aged 10 – 19. In addition, she researches metaphor in other types of discourse, such as career guidance videos, American church marquees, etc. Although most of her work has focused on English, she has also researcher metaphor in other languages: i.e. metaphors in the New Year’s Eve speeches of the Norwegian king and Danish queen, and metaphors written by L2 learners of Norwegian, from texts collected in the   <a href="https://www.nb.no/sprakbanken/show?serial=oai:clarino.uib.no:nob-ask〈=" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(5, 103, 49); font-size: inherit; transition: color 0.15s;" target="_self">Norwegian Second Language Corpus</a>, etc. Further, methodological issues connected to metaphor research are a concern of mine, especially (linguistic) metaphor identification and valid statistical analysis. Together with A.G. Dorst, T. Krennmayr, and W.G. Reijnierse, I edited a volume entitled “ <a href="https://benjamins.com/catalog/celcr.22" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(5, 103, 49); font-size: inherit; transition: color 0.15s;" target="_blank">Metaphor identification in multiple languages: MIPVU around the world</a>” (Benjamins, 2019).

 She is the review editor of the scientific journal “<a href="https://benjamins.com/catalog/msw" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(5, 103, 49); font-size: inherit; transition: color 0.15s;" target="_self">Metaphor and the Social World</a>“, published by John Benjamins.

 https://eng.inn.no/about-inn-university/employees/susan-nacey

Dates Event local time

Mar

1^st

'21

09:00 Registration opens

Apr

8^th

'21

22:00 Registration closes

Apr

9^th

'21

16:30 Starting date

Apr

9^th

'21

18:00 Closing date

Event place

Linguistics Research Seminar Series (2)

Organized by Javier Ruano García, Laura Filardo Llamas