Visnja Cicin-Sain

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Visiting address Niels Henrik Abels vei 36 Niels Treschows hus 0371 OSLO
Postal address Postboks 1003 Blindern 0315 OSLO
Other affiliations Faculty of Humanities (Student) Department of Education (Student)

My primary academic interests are metaphor and figuration in both their linguistic-discursive and conceptual-cognitive aspects. How do we conceptualize complex and multi-aspectual linguistic phenomena such as language contact, change and classification? What figurations do we commonly use in expressing evaluative stance to specific language phenomena (e.g. borrowings)?

Area specifically, I analyze discourses and language debates in the area of the former Yugoslavia. ​I examine the ways in which metaphors and figurations are deployed in discursive projects of creating and sustaining ideologies related to the successor languages established after the disintegration of Serbo-Croatian – Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian, with a specific focus on the discursive employment of figurations in the delineation of language borders.

Academic interests

  • Cognitive Linguistics
  • Metaphor analysis
  • Conceptual Metaphor Theory
  • Discourse analysis
  • Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian

Teaching

BKS1001 – Bosnisk/kroatisk/serbisk språk 1 

HON1000 – Cross-Disciplinary Thematic Focus for Honours Students

LING4170 – Lingvistisk fordypningsemne D

 

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