What is more, some metaphors have allegedly contributed to developing new legal concepts (for instance the metaphor of “the golden thread” was used to evoke the then new notion of the presumption of innocence in Canada). The law itself is often compared to an object (“to break the law”, “a law breaker”) or to a person (“Our Lady the Common Law”, “the arm of the law”, “the eye of the law”). Indeed, the law often resorts to metaphors in order to allow us to understand an abstract and/or unknown concept in terms of another that is concrete and/or familiar (the metaphor of the “living tree” to describe some aspects of the Canadian constitution is a case in point). Professor Phonetics, psycholinguistics, laboratory phonology, field linguistics, language documentation and revitalization.A large number of legal concepts is expressed through metaphors, exemplifing the Conceptual Metaphor Theory created by Lakoff & Johnson.
(PhD, University of Western Ontario & Université Lumière Lyon 2)Īssistant Professor Language documentation and revitalization, historical linguistics, linguistic typology, Amazonian languages, First Nations languages. Office: ASH 4-57, (780) 492-0805 E-mail: Graduate advising: Applications inquiries: Emilio Rosés Labrada Professor & Associate Chair - Graduate Studies Second language, heritage language and bilingual acquisition in children, bilingual children with language and communication disorders. Professor Sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, Canadian French. Office: ASH 4-55, (780) 492-5697 E-mail: Undergraduate Advising: LachlerĪssistant Professor & CILLDI Director Language documentation, language revitalization. Professor & Associate Director - Undergraduate Studies Psycholinguistics, situated language comprehension, child language processing, discourse relations, spoken language, morphological processing. Office: ASH E-mail: Järvikivi (PhD, University of Joensuu) Professor Sociocultural linguistics, applied linguistics, heritage language socialization, discourse analysis, English for academic purposes Office: ASH 4-44, (780) 492-0804 E-mail: Huijsmans (PhD, University of British Columbia)Īssistant Professor Language documentation and revitalization First Nations languages, especially Salish languages semantics syntax Professor and Chair Pragmatics, psycholinguistics, figurative language, language development, psychology of language.Į-mail: Daskalaki (PhD, University of Cambridge)Īssistant Professor Heritage language acquisition, bilingualism, language typology, syntax, morphology, discourse-pragmatics, Greek Office: ASH 4-61, (780) 248-1492 E-mail: Guardado (PhD, University of British Columbia) Colston (PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz) Teaching Professor Bilingualism, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics.Į-mail: L. Professor Field linguistics, morphosyntax, typology, cognitive linguistics, areal diffusion, Native American languages, particularly Salishan and Totonacan.Į-mail: Blekher (PhD, University of Alberta) Office: ASH 4-20, (780) 492-3480 E-mail: Arnhold (PhD, Goethe-University, Frankfurt)Īssistant Professor Prosody, phonology, phonetics, information structure, typology, Finnish, Inuit Office: ASH 4-24, (780) 492-6912Į-mail: Arppe (PhD, University of Helsinki)Īssociate Professor Lexical semantics, corpus linguistics, statistical methods, exploiting multiple methods and sources of evidence. Stephanie Archer (Ph.D, University of Calgary)Īssistant Professor Infant speech perception, first language acquisition, psycholinguistics, phonetics, phonology. You will find information regarding other academics (adjuncts, lecturers, emeriti), administrative staff, graduate students and alumni on each of their corresponding pages.
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