Jeannette Littlemore

Jeannette Littlemore is a British scholar of English and applied linguistics, whose work focuses on the interpretation of figurative language, including metaphor and metonymy, as it relates to second language learning and teaching. Her research examines the ways that metaphor is misunderstood by learners of English.

Littlemore earned her PhD in English Language Teaching at Thames Valley University in 1998.[1] She has worked at the University of Birmingham since 1999, having taught and lectured earlier in Brussels, Belgium; Saitama Ken, Japan; and Santander, Spain. She served as the Head of Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Birmingham, where she is currently a Professor. In addition, in 2016 she was appointed Distinguished Professor at the Research Institute for Bilingual Learning and Teaching (RIBiLT) at the Open University of Hong Kong, where her duties include mentoring academic staff in research and publications and supporting the research activities of academics.[2][3] She is a member of the international advisory board of Metaphor Lab Amsterdam.[4] In 2014 Littlemore, along with Dr Paula Perez-Sobrino and Dr David Houghton, was awarded a £138,981 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship for the project ‘Exploring Multimodal Metaphor and Metonymy in Advertising’ (EMMA). The project examines responses to video advertisements on participants who are speakers of English, Spanish, and Chinese.[5]

Key publications

Books

Journal articles

References

  1. "British Library EThOS: Individual differences in second language learning : towards an identification of the strategy preferences and language learning strengths of L2 students with holistic and/or imager cognitive styles". Ethos.bl.uk. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
  2. "International recognition". Birmingham.ac.uk. 2016-05-17. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
  3. "Research Bulletin (Vol.2, Issue no.4)". Ouhk.edu.hk. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
  4. "International Advisory Board | Metaphor Lab Amsterdam". Metaphorlab.org. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
  5. "E M M A – Exploring Multimodal Metaphor in Advertising". Multimodalmetaphor.com. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
  6. Beate Hampe, review in Cognitive Linguistics. 26(3) pp. 549–560
  7. Jules Winchester (2015), review in Discourse & Society 26(1) pp. 139-140.
  8. "Metaphor and Metonymy in Different Environments: A Review of Alice Deignan's, Jeannette Littlemore's and Elena Semino's 'Figurative Language, Genre and Register'" (PDF). ESP Today. 3 (2): 130–134. 2015.
  9. Adisa Imamović. "Review in Exell: Exploration in English Language and Linguistics" (PDF). pp. 187–192.
  10. Jingyang Jiang, "Novel applications of cognitive approaches in second language acquisition," Review of Applied Cognitive Linguistics in Second Language Learning and Teaching. AILA Review, Volume 23. Amsterdam 2010, in: PRAGMATICS.REVIEWS.2013.1.1

External links


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/21/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.