Research interests
I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages at the University of Oslo, working on the interdisciplinary project "Fakespeak – the language of fake news" (funded by The Research Council of Norway). My main research objective within the project is to investigate differences in metaphorical and evaluative language use across fake and real news in English. I am also involved in the investigation of grammatical differences between the two types of news, as well as the linguistic analysis of propaganda techniques across languages and cultures. These differences will help us develop more effective deception detection systems in order to help curtail the spread of fake news. I am a co-developer of a large dataset of fake and real news, namely, the PolitiFact-Oslo Corpus.
My other research interests include spoken English and the combination of social motivations and cognitive mechanisms of speech production, comprehension and change. I am a lead developer of the brand new London–Lund Corpus 2 (LLC–2) of spoken British English, modelled on the same principles as the world's first spoken corpus, the London–Lund Corpus (LLC–1). On the one hand, LLC–2 facilitates the investigation of contemporary speech from a synchronic perspective and across different registers and groups of speakers. On the other hand, it allows researchers to carry out principled diachronic comparisons across two different time periods of English with some 50 years in between.
Academic background
- 2020 – present: Affiliated Researcher, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University (through my work on the London–Lund Corpus 2)
- 2020: Postdoctoral Fellow, Lund University; project title: "The art of giving advice in everyday conversation"
- 2014 – 2019: Doctoral Candidate, Lund University; thesis title: "What's in a dialogue? On the dynamics of meaning-making in English conversation"
Prizes and awards
- 2021: Winner of an Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities
- 2018: Runner-up of De Gruyter Mouton Best Junior Paper Award at the 5th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English, London, UK
- 2016: Winner of the Best Pre-doctoral Oral Presentation Prize at the 10th Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
Teaching and supervision
I have experience in teaching on a broad spectrum of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in linguistics including Cognitive Linguistics, English phonetics/intonation and grammar, semantics and pragmatics, discourse analysis and corpus methods. I have also taught on various academic speaking and writing courses in English, engineering and physics departments. My supervision experience to date includes Bachelor degree projects in an English Language Education programme on topics such as foreign language anxiety in the Nordic context, and the use of new media such as computer games and podcasts as effective learning and teaching resources. Currently, I supervise one MA student in English Secondary Teacher Training, and co-supervise one PhD student in English Linguistics, Eleni Seitanidi, at Lund University.