Nina Julich-Warpakowski | University of Erfurt (original) (raw)

Education

2004-2010
Leipzig University
British Studies (with a focus on English linguistics) and Musicology (focus on historical musicology), including an ERASMUS year in Cardiff, Wales, UK
Master‘s thesis: Contrasts in the Lexicon. Conceptualizations of Music in English and German

Professional Career

Leipzig University
Since 2015/10
Research Associate at the English Department
PhD project: Metaphors in Verbal Descriptions of Music

University of Applied Sciences Zwickau
Since 2015/09
Research Assistant
Project: Lernprozesse mit ePortfolios sichtbar machen

University of Applied Sciences Zwickau
2013/10-2015/09
English for Specific Purposes Lecturer

Leipzig University
2011/04-2013/07
Research assistant at the English Department

Research Interests

-Conceptual Metaphor Theory
-Metaphors for (and in) Music
-Metonymy
-Literal vs. metaphorical language
-Corpus Approaches to Metaphor

Teaching Experience

Introduction to Synchronic Linguistics
Introduction to Diachronic Linguistics (as a students’ tutor)
Phonetics / Phonology (as a students’ tutor)
Technical English for Mechanical Engineering (at B2 and C1 level)
Technical English for Electrical Engineering (B2)
Technical English for Physical Engineering and Microsystems Technology (C1)

Publications

Pérez-Sobrino, P. & Julich, N. (2014). Let’s Talk Music: A Corpus-Based Account of Musical Motion, Metaphor and Symbol, 29(4), 298-315.

Reviews

Julich, N. (2015). Review of Csatár, Péter (2014). Data Structure in Cognitive Metaphor Research. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang (Metalinguistica Volume 26), on www.linguistlist.org

Julich, N. (2014). Review of Gonzálvez-García, Peña Cervel, Pérez Hernández (eds) (2013). Metaphor and Metonymy revisited beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor, on www.linguistlist.org

Presentations

Metaphors for music: Beyond time is motion
2nd International Symposium on Figurative Thought and Language, Pavia, Italy, 2015

Metaphors for Music. Different Levels of Conceptualization (with Paula Pérez-Sobrino)
13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Newcastle, UK, 2015, special theme session on music and language

Metaphor in Texts on Music
12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Edmonton, Canada, 2013, special theme session on music and language

Image Schemas Underlying Musical Metaphors. A Corpus-Based Approach (with Paula Pérez-Sobrino)
Cognition and Poetics Conference, Osnabrück, 2013

MIPVU. Theoretical Considerations and Borderline Cases (with Thanasis Georgakopoulos)
Metaphor Lab Winter School, Amsterdam, 2013

Metaphor in Musical Discourse
9th Researching and Applying Metaphor Conference, Lancaster, UK, 2012

Workshops

Introduction to Statistics in R, Leipzig, Germany, 2014 (Anne Krause)

Systematic Metapher Analysis in Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences, Berlin Germany, 2014 (Rudolf Schmitt)

Metaphor Lab Winter School, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2013 and 2012 (Gerard Steen, Tina Krennmayr, Alan Cienki)

Tutor/innen-Qualifizierung, tutinitiative der Erziehungswissenschaft der Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, German, 2012

Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics, Freiburg, Germany, 2012 (Anatol Stefanowitsch, Kristian Tylén)

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