Dr Karen (Kari) Sullivan

Dr Karen Sullivan
Dr Karen Sullivan
BA German and Scandinavian Focus (Univ. of Oregon), MA Linguistics (Univ. of California, Berkeley), PhD Linguistics (Univ. of California, Berkeley, "UC Berkeley")

 

Lecturer in Linguistics

Room: Gordon Greenwood Building (32), 516
Phone: +61 (7) 3365 2268
Email: ksull@uq.edu.au

Teaching:
  •  Semantics
  •  The Sound Pattern of Language
  •   Mind and Language
  • (Past Teaching: Metaphor and Metonymy, English Phonetics, Introduction to Language)
Research Interests:
  • Cognitive Linguistics
  • Construction Grammar
  • Metaphor, Metonymy
  •  Semantic Change
  •  Language and Literature
 Current research projects:
  • Polysemy networks in English and Spanish
  • psycholinguistic approaches to conceptual metaphor
  • genre-specific cognitive structures 
  •  metaphor and censorship
  • metaphor in idioms
Selected recent publications:
  •  Frames and Constructions in Metaphoric Language. In the series Constructional Approaches to Language, Jan-Ola Ostman and Mirjam Fried, eds., John Benjamins, in press.
  • Sweetser & Karen Sullivan. "Minimalist metaphors". English Text construction, in press.
  • "One metaphor to rule them all? 'Objects' as tests of character in The Lord of the Rings". Language and Literature, in press.
  • Karen Sullivan & Wendy Jiang. "When my eyes are on you, do you touch my eyes? Evidence from English and Chinese against PERCEPTION IS CONTACT". International Journal of Cognitive Linguistics, in press.
  • “If and when it's a construction…”. Constructions and Frames 3:2, 236-260 (2011)
  • 2009 “The Languages of Art: How Representational and Abstract Painters  Conceptualize Their Work in Terms of Language”. Poetics Today 30(3), Durham, NC: Duke University Press:517-560.
  •  2009 –– & Eve Sweetser. “Is ‘Generic is Specific’ a Metaphor?”. In Meaning, Form and Body, Fey Parrill, Vera Tobin, and Mark Turner (eds.), Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications: 309-327.
  •   2009 “Grammatical Constructions in Metaphoric Language”.  In Studies in Cognitive Corpus Linguistics, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Katarzyna Dziwirek (eds.), Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang Publishers.
  •   2008 “Genre-Dependent Metonymy in Norse Skaldic Poetry”.  Language and Literature 17(1), Belfast, UK: SAGE Publications: 21-36.
  • 2007 “Metaphoric Extension and Invited Inferencing in Semantic Change”. Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación / Culture, Language and Representation, Special Issue: Metaphor and Discourse, Ignasi Navarro i Ferrando et al (eds.), Castellón, Spain: Universitat Jaume I Press: 257-274.
  • 2007 “Lexical Filledness and Metaphor in Idioms”. Collocations and Idioms 1: Papers from the First Nordic Conference on Syntactic Freezes, Marja Nenonen, Sinikka Niemi and Jussi Niemi (eds.), Joensuu, Finland: Joensuu University Press: 330-341.
  •  2006 “Frame-Based Constraints on Lexical Choice in Metaphor”. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley, CA: BLS.
  • 2006 “How Does Art ‘Speak’ and What Does It ‘Say’: Conceptual Metaphor Theory as a Tool for Understanding the Artistic Process”. In Thought Tools for a New Generation: Essays on Thought, Ideas, and the Power of Expression, Eugene, OR: Robert D. Clark Honors College: 81-89.

 

 

 

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