Presentations

"Warum Studierende lieber nicht blau machen sollten: Wenn Lehrende spannende und hilfreiche Metaphern in ihren Seminaren verwenden"

"The role of (deliberate) metaphor in communicating knowledge in academic lectures from different disciplines"

"The role of (deliberate) metaphor in communicating knowledge in academic lectures from different disciplines"

"Using (deliberate) metaphor to reveal conceptualizations in the American academic culture"

"The role of ‘deliberate metaphor’ in communicating knowledge in academic lectures from different disciplines"

"The role of (deliberate) metaphor in communicating knowledge in academic discourse: An analysis of college lectures from different disciplines"

"Variations in metaphorical conceptualizations of (romantic) relationships in psychology: Academic lectures versus academic textbooks"
14^th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-14), University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

"Recontextualization of deliberate metaphors in a college lecture: Problems that arise when metaphorical concepts of academic articles are misrepresented"
Metaphor Festival 2016 University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

"Forms and functions of deliberate metaphors in US-American college lectures across four different subjects: Differences and similarities between psychology, philosophy, biology, and chemistry"
Metaphor Lab Amsterdam Research Meeting, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

"Metaphor and register: A comparison of metaphor patterns for RELATIONSHIPS and AGGRESSION between four college lectures and two textbook chapters"

6th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (DGKL), Erlangen, Germany

"The brain as the mind’s machine: A metaphor as the basis for elaborate analogies in teaching college students concepts of the mind"

The international and interdisciplinary workshop Science and Metaphor, Flensburg University, Flensburg, Germany

08/30/2013

"Deliberate metaphors in academic discourse: Do we need them to explain or do they need to be explained?"
The 2013 Metaphor Festival, Stockholm, Sweden

05/03/2013

"The fine line between sadness and depression - and what metaphors can tell us about it"
Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM) Seminar 2013, Poznan, Poland

10/11/2012

"The deliberate use of metaphors in college lectures: The nature of deliberate metaphors and their functions in different text types"
5th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (DGKL), Freiburg

07/12/2012

"Differences in the nature and use of metaphors to teach scientific concepts in college lectures: Biology versus chemistry"
4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, King's College, London, England

07/06/2012

"When sperm types are offensive linemen, and an electron is Jake, your old friend: Deliberate metaphor as a tool for teaching scientific concepts in college lectures"
Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM) 9 Conference, Lancaster University, England

03/26/2012

"Deliberate metaphor in psychology lectures: When and why professors use metaphors deliberately"
13. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium, Universität Potsdam

07/20/2011

"Complementing discourse analysis with computer-assisted corpus analysis in the field of specialized languages: The case of anger metaphors in academic discourse"
Corpus Linguistics 2011:"Discourse and Corpus Linguistics", Birmingham, England

06/15/2011

"Metaphor as a means of communicating abstract concepts in academic discourse"
3rd Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC III), University of Copenhagen, Denmark

03/04/2011

"Communicating scientific concepts in academic discourse: The application of metaphors in college lectures"
12. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium, Universität Braunschweig

01/27/2011

"Discourse events and their influence on the use of metaphors: The case of anger and love conceptualizations"
Winter Symposium "Language Use - Language Structure" des Center for Semiotics, Aarhus University, Denmark

01/13/2011

"Experten-Laien-Diskurs: Wissensvermittlung im Hochschulbereich und der Einsatz konzeptueller Metaphern"
Tag des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses, Universität Flensburg

12/09/2010

"Metapherngebrauch im Bereich der Psychologie: Beratungsgespräche und Hochschuldiskurs im Vergleich"
Interdisziplinäres Forschungskolloquium 'Sprache', Universität Flensburg

10/07/2010

"Experts' language of love: Comparative analysis of conceptual metaphors for love in the discourse of counseling and academic discourse"
4th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (GCLA), Universität Bremen

07/02/2010

"Metaphors in the domain of psychology: The discourse of counseling vs. educational discourse"
8th Research and Applying Metaphor (RaAM) Conference, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

05/23/2009

"Experten versus Laien: Unterschiede in den konzeptuellen Metaphern für ANGER, LOVE and SADNESS"
45. Studentische Tagung 'Sprachwissenschaft', Universität Düsseldorf

03/13/2009

"ANGER, LOVE and SADNESS revisited: Unterschiede in der Emotionsmetaphorik zwischen Laien und Experten"
10. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium, Universität Greifswald

01/22/2009

"Emotionsmetaphern im Experten-Laien-Diskurs"
Interdisziplinäres Forschungskolloquium 'Sprache', Universität Flensburg