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Professor Emerita, Researcher
- English Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail carita.paradisenglund.luse
Room SOL:H327
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
I am Professor of English Linguistics and member of AcademiaNet - Outstanding Women Scientists in Europe, Academia Europaea and President of the Royal Society of Letters, Lund (-2021).
Our new spoken corpus! The London-Lund Corpus 2
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- Maneras de actuar, pensar, hablar y sentir en inglés y español
- The art of giving advice in everyday conversation
- Opposites across the senses
- Antonymy in English and Swedish (research leader)
- The meaning of actions (research leader)
- CONTRAST in language, thought and memory
- The London-Lund Corpus 2 of spoken British English (LLC 2) (research leader)
- Making sense of autism, ADHD, OCD, and Tourette Syndrome: a cognitive semantic perspective (research leader)
- MovEs-MovEinG
- NetWordS (research leader)
- Mediation of sensory experiences by individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- StaViCTA - Advances in the description and explanation of stance in discourse using visual and computational text analytics (research leader)
- Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning
- The Meaning of Actions - Theme, Pufendorf IAS
Books (7)
- Pöldvere, N., Johansson, V. & Paradis, C. (accepted/in press). A guide to the London–Lund Corpus 2 of spoken British English. Lund studies in English.
- Pöldvere, N., De Felice, R. & Paradis, C. (2022). Advice in conversation : Corpus pragmatics meets mixed methods. Cambridge Elements in Pragmatics. Cambridge University Press.
- Caballero, R., Suárez Toste, E. & Paradis, C. (2019). Representing Wine : Sensory perceptions, communication and cultures. [Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 21. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Hudson, J., Paradis, C., Warren, B. & Ekedahl, O. (2014). Basic English Grammar : A web linked course. Studentlitteratur AB.
- Jones, S., Murphy, L., Paradis, C. & Willners, C. (2012). Antonyms in English : Construals Constructions and Canonicity. Cambridge University Press.
- Hudson, J., Paradis, C. & Warren, B. (2005). Basic English grammar: a web linked course. Studentlitteratur AB.
- Paradis, C. (1997). Degree modifiers of adjectives in spoken British English. Lund Studies in English, 92. Lund University Press.
Editorships (10)
- Paradis, C., Johansson, V. & Pöldvere, N. (2021). (Eds.) Spoken language in time and across time. English Language and Linguistics, 25. Cambridge University Press.
- Mporas, I., Simaki, V., Paradis, C., Kerren, A. & Paraskevas, M. (2020). (Eds.) Special issue on Natural Language Processing for Social Media Analysis : International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 29(2). International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 29. World Scientific Publishing.
- Caballero, R. & Paradis, C. (2015). (Eds.) Sensory perceptions in language and cognition. Functions of Language, 22.1. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Paradis, C. (2013). (Ed.) The construal of spatial meaning : Windows into conceptual space. Space. Oxford University Press.
- Paradis, C. & Thormählen, M. (2013). (Eds.) Interpretive functions of adjectives in English: A cognitive approach. Lund Studies in English, 116. Lund University.
- Ekberg, L. & Paradis, C. (2009). (Eds.) Evidentiality in language and cognition. Functions of Language, 16:1. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Paradis, C. & Stefanie, W. (2008). (Eds.) Cognitive Linguistics in Practice (CLiP). Cognitive Linguistics in Practice. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Manninen, S. & Paradis, C. (2002). (Eds.) The Department of English in Lund : Working Papers in Linguistics Vol. 2. The Department of English in Lund: Working Papers in Linguistics, 2. The Department of English, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University.
- Manninen, S. & Paradis, C. (2001). (Eds.) The Department of English in Lund : Working Papers in Linguistics Vol. 1. The Department of English in Lund: Working Papers in Linguistics, 1. The Department of English, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University.
- Paradis, C. (1999). (Ed.) Recent trends in the pronunciation of English : Social, regional and attitudinal aspects. Scripta Minora Regiae Societatis Humaniorum Litterarum Lundensis, 1998/1999:2. Kungliga Humanistiska vetenskapssamfundet i Lund.
Articles (54)
- Burro, R., Branchini, E., Capitani, E., Barnaba, V., Fermani, A., Paradis, C. & Bianchi, I. (2023). Is there an association between consumers’ personality traits and the sensory characteristics they look for in wine?. Food Quality and Preference, 105. Elsevier.
- Farshchi, S., Andersson, A., van de Weijer, J. & Paradis, C. (2023). Brain responses to negated and affirmative meanings in the auditory modality. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17. Frontiers Media S. A..
- Seitanidi, E., Põldvere, N. & Paradis, C. (2023). All-cleft constructions in the London-Lund Corpora of spoken English : Empirical and methodological perspectives. Journal of Pragmatics, 207, 78-92. Elsevier.
- Simaki, V., Seitanidi, E. & Paradis, C. (2022). Evaluation of stance annotation of Twitter data. Research in Corpus Linguistics, 11, 53-53.
- Hartman, J. & Paradis, C. (2021). Figurative meaning in multimodal work by an autistic artist: a cognitive semantic approach. Language and Cognition, 13, 1-33. Cambridge University Press.
- Pöldvere, N., Frid, J., Johansson, V. & Paradis, C. (2021). Challenges of releasing audio material for spoken data : The case of the London–Lund Corpus 2. Research in Corpus Linguistics, 9, 35-62.
- Pöldvere, N., Johansson, V. & Paradis, C. (2021). On the London–Lund Corpus 2 : Design, challenges and innovations. English Language and Linguistics, 25, 459-483. Cambridge University Press.
- Pöldvere, N., Johansson, V. & Paradis, C. (2021). Resonance in dialogue : The interplay between intersubjective motivations and cognitive facilitation. Language and Cognition, 13, 643-669. Cambridge University Press.
- Paradis, C., Johansson, V. & Pöldvere, N. (2021). Special issue on spoken language in time and across time : Introduction. English Language and Linguistics, 25, 449-457. Cambridge University Press.
- Caballero, R. & Paradis, C. (2020). Soundscapes in English and Spanish : A corpus investigation of verb constructions. Language and Cognition, 12, 705-728. Cambridge University Press.
- Farshchi, S., Andersson, A., van de Weijer, J. & Paradis, C. (2020). Processing sentences with sentential and prefixal negation : An event-related potential study. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 36, 84-98. Taylor & Francis.
- Kucher, K., Martins, R. M., Paradis, C. & Kerren, A. (2020). StanceVis Prime : Visual Analysis of Sentiment and Stance in Social Media Texts. Journal of Visualization, 23, 1015-1034. Springer.
- Mporas, I., Simaki, V., Paradis, C., Kerren, A. & Paraskevas, M. (2020). Editorial. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 29. World Scientific Publishing.
- Pöldvere, N. & Paradis, C. (2020). 'What and then a little robot brings it to you?' : The reactive what-x construction in spoken dialogue. English Language and Linguistics, 24, 307-332. Cambridge University Press.
- Simaki, V., Skeppstedt, M., Paradis, C., Kerren, A. & Sahlgren, M. (2020). Annotating speaker stance in discourse : The Brexit Blog Corpus. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 16, 215-248. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Farshchi, S., Andersson, R., van de Weijer, J. & Paradis, C. (2019). Processing negation in a miniature artificial language. Cognitive Science, 43. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Pöldvere, N. & Paradis, C. (2019). Motivations and mechanisms for the development of the reactive what-x construction in spoken dialogue. Journal of Pragmatics, 143, 65-84. Elsevier.
- Simaki, V., Paradis, C. & Andreas, K. (2019). A two-step procedure to identify lexical elements of stance constructions in discourse from political blogs. Corpora, 14, 379-405. Edinburgh University Press.
- Caballero Rodríguez, R. & Paradis, C. (2018). Verbs in speech framing expressions : Comparing English and Spanish. Journal of Linguistics, 54, 45-84. Cambridge University Press.
- Hartman, J. & Paradis, C. (2018). Emotive and sensory simulation through comparative construal. Metaphor and Symbol, 33, 123-143. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Kucher, K., Paradis, C. & Kerren, A. (2018). The state of the art in sentiment visualization. Computer Graphics Forum, 37, 71-96. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Simaki, V., Paradis, C. & Kerren, A. (2018). Evaluating stance-annotated sentences from the Brexit Blog Corpus: A quantitative linguistic analysis. ICAME Journal, 42, 133-165. De Gruyter Open.
- Bianchi, I., Paradis, C., Burro, R., van de Weijer, J., Nyström, M. & Savardi, U. (2017). Identification of opposites and intermediates by eye and by hand. Acta Psychologica, 180, 175-189. Elsevier.
- Fuoli, M., van de Weijer, J. & Paradis, C. (2017). Denial outperforms apology in repairing organizational trust despite strong evidence of guilt. Public Relations Review, 43, 645-660. Elsevier.
- Kucher, K., Paradis, C., Sahlgren, M. & Kerren, A. (2017). Active Learning and Visual Analytics for Stance Classification with ALVA. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), 7. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
- Skeppstedt, M., Paradis, C. & Kerren, A. (2017). PAL, a tool for pre-annotation and active learning. Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics, 31, 91-110.
- Kucher, K., Schamp-Bjerede, T., Kerren, A., Paradis, C. & Sahlgren, M. (2016). Visual analysis of online social media to open up the investigation of stance phenomena. Information Visualization, 15, 93-116. SAGE Publications.
- Pöldvere, N., Fuoli, M. & Paradis, C. (2016). A study of dialogic expansion and contraction in spoken discourse using corpus and experimental techniques. Corpora, 11, 191-225. Edinburgh University Press.
- Skeppstedt, M., Paradis, C. & Kerren, A. (2016). Marker words for negation and speculation in health records and consumer reviews. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 1650, 64-69. CEUR-WS.
- Wallin, A., Paradis, C. & Konstantinos, K. (2016). Evaluative polarity words in risky choice framing. Journal of Pragmatics, 20-38. Elsevier.
- Caballero, R. & Paradis, C. (2015). Making sense of sensory perceptions across languages and cultures. Functions of Language, 22, 1-19. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Engström, R. & Paradis, C. (2015). The In-group and Out-groups of the British National Party and the UK Independence Party: A Corpus-Based Discourse-Historical Analysis. Journal of Language and Politics, 14, 501-527. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Paradis, C., Löhndorf, S., van de Weijer, J. & Willners, C. (2015). Semantic profiles of antonymic adjectives in discourse. Linguistics, 53, 153-191. De Gruyter.
- Fuoli, M. & Paradis, C. (2014). A model of trust-repair discourse. Journal of Pragmatics, 74, 52-69. Elsevier.
- van de Weijer, J., Paradis, C., Willners, C. & Lindgren, M. (2014). Antonym canonicity: Temporal and contextual manipulations. Brain and Language, 128, 1-8. Elsevier.
- Paradis, C. & Eeg-Olofsson, M. (2013). Describing Sensory Experience: The Genre of Wine Reviews. Metaphor and Symbol, 28, 22-40. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Paradis, C., van de Weijer, J., Willners, C. & Lindgren, M. (2012). Evaluative polarity of antonyms. Lingue e Linguaggio, 11, 199-214. Il Mulino publishing house.
- Paradis, C. & Willners, C. (2011). Antonymy: from conventionalization to meaning-making. Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 9, 367-391. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Ekberg, L. & Paradis, C. (2009). Evidentiality in language and cognition. Functions of Language, 16, 5-7. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Murphy, M. L., Paradis, C. & Willners, C. (2009). Introduction: Lexical contrast in discourse. Journal of Pragmatics, 41, 2137-2139. Elsevier.
- Murphy, M. L., Paradis, C., Willners, C. & Jones, S. (2009). Discourse functions of antonymy: a cross-linguistic investigation of Swedish and English. Journal of Pragmatics, 41, 2159-2184. Elsevier.
- Paradis, C. (2009). This beauty should drink well for 10-12 years: A note on recommendations as semantic middles. Text & Talk: an interdisciplinary journal of language, discourse & communication studies, 29, 53-73. De Gruyter.
- Paradis, C., Willners, C. & Jones, S. (2009). Good and bad opposites: using textual and experimental techniques to measure antonym canonicity. The Mental Lexicon, 380-429. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Paradis, C. (2008). Configurations, construals and change: Expressions of DEGREE. English Language and Linguistics, 12, 317-343. Cambridge University Press.
- Jones, S., Paradis, C., Murphy, M. L. & Willners, C. (2007). Googling for opposites: a web-based study of antonym canonicity. Corpora, 2, 129-154. Edinburgh University Press.
- Paradis, C. & Willners, C. (2007). Antonyms in dictionary entries: Methodological aspects. Studia Linguistica, 61, 261-277. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Paradis, C. & Willners, C. (2006). Antonymy and negation: the boundedness hypothesis. Journal of Pragmatics, 38, 1051-1080. Elsevier.
- Paradis, C. & Willners, C. (2006). Selecting antonyms for dictionary entries: methodological aspects. Working Papers (Lund University, Department of Linguistics), 6, 95-106. Department of Linguistics, Lund University.
- Paradis, C. (2005). Ontologies and construals in lexical semantics. Axiomathes, 15, 541-573. Springer.
- Paradis, C. (2004). Where Does Metonymy Stop? Senses, Facets, and Active Zones. Metaphor and Symbol, 19, 245-264. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Paradis, C. (2003). Is the notion of linguistic competence relevant in Cognitive Linguistics. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 247-271. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Paradis, C. (2001). Adjectives and boundedness. Cognitive Linguistics, 12, 47-64. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Paradis, C. (2000). Absolutely wicked. Reinforcers in spoken British English: teentalk and adult speech. Moderna Språk, 44, 137-146. Lärarna i moderna språk.
- Paradis, C. (1994). Compromiser - a notional paradigm. Hermes, 13, 157-169. Aarhus University, Aarhus School of Business.
Book chapters (30)
- Paradis, C. (2021). Two layers of modal grounding of recommendations. In Kloudová, V., Šemelík, M., Racochová, A. & Koptík, T. (Eds.) Spielräume der modernen linguistischen Forschung (pp. 112-127). The Karolinum Press.
- Acquaviva, P., Lenci, A., Paradis, C. & Raffaelli, I. (2020). Models of lexical meaning. In Pirrelli, V., Plag, I. & Dressler, W. U. (Eds.) Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, Word knolwedge and word usage : a cross-disciplinary guide to the mental lexicon (pp. 353-404). De Gruyter.
- Paradis, C. (2019). Apropå doft : Hur pratar vi egentligen om olfaktoriska förnimmelser?. Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet i Lund. Bulletin de la Société de Lettres de Lund. (2019 : 21 – 29)., 21-29.
- Paradis, C. (2016). Corpus methods for the investigation of antonyms across languages. In Koptjevskaja-Tamm, M. & Juvonen, P. (Eds.) Cognitive linguistics research (CLR), The lexical typology of semantic shifts (pp. 131-156), 58. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Paradis, C. & Hommerberg, C. (2016). We drink with our eyes first: The web of sensory perceptions, aesthetic experiences and mixed imagery in wine reviews. In Gibbs, R. W. (Ed.) Mixing metaphor (pp. 179-202). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Paradis, C. (2015). Conceptual Spaces at Work in Sensory Cognition : Domains, Dimensions and Distances. In Zenker, F. & Gärdenfors, P. (Eds.) Synthese Library, Applications of Conceptual Spaces : The Case for Geometric Knowledge Representation (pp. 33-55), 359. Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
- Paradis, C. (2015). Meanings of words : theory and application. In Haß, U. & Storjohann, P. (Eds.) Handbuch Wort und Wortschatz (Handbücher Sprachwissen-HSW Band 3), 3. De Gruyter.
- Hommerberg, C. & Paradis, C. (2014). Constructing credibility through representations in the discourse of wine: Evidentiality, temporality and epistemic control. In glynn, D. & Sjölin, M. (Eds.) Subjectivity and Epistemicity. Corpus, discourse, and literary approaches to stance (pp. 211-238). Lund University Press.
- Caballero, R. & Paradis, C. (2013). Perceptual landscapes from the perspective of cultures and genres. In Caballero, R. & Díaz Vera, J. (Eds.) Sensuous cognition - Explorations into human sentience - Imagination, (e)motion and perception. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Kerren, A., Kyusakova, M. & Paradis, C. (2013). From culture to text to interactive visualization of wine reviews. In Marchese, F. & Banissi, E. (Eds.) Knowledge visualization currents: from text to art to culture (pp. 85-110). Springer.
- Paradis, C. & Willners, C. (2013). Negation and approximation as configurational construals in SPACE. In Paradis, C., Hudson, J. & Magnusson, U. (Eds.) The Construal of Spatial Meaning Windows into Conceptual Space. Oxford University Press.
- Paradis, C., Hudson, J. & Magnusson, U. (2013). Windows In: Empirical Evidence of Construals of Spatial Meaning. In Paradis, C., Hudson, J. & Magnusson, U. (Eds.) The Construal of Spatial Meaning Windows into Conceptual Space. Oxford University Press.
- Paradis, C. (2012). Between epistemic modality and degree : The case of really. In Facchinetti, R., Krug, M. & Palmer, F. R. (Eds.) Modality in Contemporary English (pp. 191-222). De Gruyter.
- Paradis, C. (2012). Cognitive Grammar. In Chapelle, C. (Ed.) The encyclopedia of applied linguistics. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Paradis, C. (2012). Lexical Semantics. In Chapelle, C. (Ed.) The encyclopedia of applied linguistics. Wiley-Blackwell.
- van de Weijer, J., Paradis, C., Willners, C. & Lindgren, M. (2012). As lexical as it gets: The role of co-occurrence of antonyms in a visual lexical decision experiment. In Divjak, D. & Gries, S. T. (Eds.) Frequency effects in language representation (pp. 255-279), 2. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Paradis, C. (2011). A dynamic construal approach to antonymy. Proceedings of the 19th symposium on theoretical and applied linguistics.
- Paradis, C. (2011). Metonymization: a key mechanism in language change. In Benczes, R., Barcelona Sánchez, A. & Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. (Eds.) Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics: Towards a Consensus View. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Paradis, C. (2011). Reinforcing adjectives : A cognitive semantic perspective on grammaticalisation. Generative Theory and Corpus Studies : A Dialogue from 10 ICEHL, 233-258. De Gruyter.
- Paradis, C. (2011). Where does metonymy stop? Senses, facets and active zones. In Hanks, P. & Giora, R. (Eds.) Metaphor and Figurative Language. Routledge.
- Paradis, C. (2010). Good, better and superb antonyms: a conceptual construal approach. The annual texts by foreign guest professors, 3, 385-402. Charles University.
- Paradis, C. (2010). Touchdowns in winespeak: ontologies and construals in use and meaning-making. In Goded Rambaud, M. & Poves Luelmo, A. (Eds.) Proceedings from the 1st conference on linguistic approaches to food and wine descriptions. Madrid : UNED.
- Willners, C. & Paradis, C. (2010). Swedish opposites - a multi-method approach to antonym canonicity. In Storjohann, P. (Ed.) Lexical-semantic relations from theoretical and practical perspectives, Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Paradis, C. (2009). Prime time: the middle construction in wine drinking recommendations. In Bowen, R., Mobärg, M. & Ohlander, S. (Eds.) Corpora and discourse - and stuff : papers in honour of Karin Aijmer (pp. 243-251). Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis.
- Paradis, C. (2003). Between epistemic modality and degree: the case of really. In Facchinetti, R., Krug, M. & Palmer, F. (Eds.) Modality in Contemporary English. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Paradis, C. (2003). Is the notion of linguistic competence relevant in Cognitive Linguistics?. In Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. (Eds.) Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics ; 1. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Paradis, C. (2000). It's well weird. Degree modifiers of adjectives revisited: the nineties. In Kirk, J. M. (Ed.) Language and computers, Corpora galore: Analyses and techniques in describing English (pp. 147-160), 30. Rodopi.
- Paradis, C. (2000). Reinforcing adjectives: A cognitive semantic perspective on grammaticalization. In Bermúdez-Otero, R., Denison, D., Hogg, R. & McCully, C. (Eds.) Generative theory and corpus studies (pp. 233-258), Topics in English linguistics ; 31. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Paradis, C. (1995). Jolly good and terribly nice. In Andersson, H. & Teleman, U. (Eds.) Hon och Han (pp. 73-79). Lund University Press.
- Tottie, G. & Paradis, C. (1982). From function to structure. Some pragmatic determinants in impromptu speech. In Enkvist, N. E. (Ed.) Impromptu speech (pp. 307-317), 78. The Research Institute of Åbo Akademi.
Conference contributions (136)
- Haghighatkhah, P., El-Assady, M., Fekete, J. D., Mahyar, N., Paradis, C., Simaki, V. & Speckmann, B. (2022). Characterizing Uncertainty in the Visual Text Analysis Pipeline. Proceedings - 2022 IEEE 7th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities, VIS4DH 2022, 25-30. IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
- Tzimopoulou, E., Hartman, J. & Paradis, C. (2022). Participant descriptions of everyday sounds : the case of verb constructions.
- Tzimopoulou, E., Hartman, J. & Paradis, C. (2022). What is the language of sound like?.
- De Felice, R., Pöldvere, N. & Paradis, C. (2021). Advice-giving and advice uptake in conversation : A corpus pragmatic study.
- Põldvere, N., Johansson, V. & Paradis, C. (2021). Social and cognitive explanations of dialogic resonance in everyday conversation.
- Pöldvere, N., Johansson, V. & Paradis, C. (2021). On the importance of audio material in spoken linguistics : A case study of the London–Lund Corpus 2.
- Pöldvere, N., Johansson, V. & Paradis, C. (2021). The new London-Lund Corpus 2 : Key methodological challenges and innovations.
- Seitanidi, E., Simaki, V. & Paradis, C. (2021). ‘We Simply Organic! #WeLoveorganic #organicfood’ : Data compilation and contrastive analysis of consumer texts about organic food. In Busse, B., Dumrukcic, N. & Möhlig-Falke, R. (Eds.) Language and Linguistics in a Complex World : Data, Interdisciplinarity, Transfer, and the Next Generation The Next Generation (pp. 92-97). Kölner Universität Publications Server (KUPS).
- Seitanidi, E., Simaki, V. & Paradis, C. (2021). Stance-conveying hashtags in organic food tweets #betyourejealous.
- Tzimopoulou, E., Hartman, J. & Paradis, C. (2021). Cross modality in audition : Descriptions and experience ratings of everyday acousmatic sounds.
- Pöldvere, N., Johansson, V. & Paradis, C. (2020). On the importance of audio material in spoken linguistics : A case study of the London–Lund Corpus 2.
- Pöldvere, N., Johansson, V. & Paradis, C. (2020). The interplay between social motivation and cognitive facilitation in dialogic resonance.
- Paradis, C. (2020). Negotiating stances across speaker turns in everyday conversation.
- Seitanidi, E., Simaki, V. & Paradis, C. (2020). ‘We Simply Organic! #WeLoveorganic #organicfood’ : Data compilation and contrastive analysis of consumer texts about organic food.
- Farshchi, S., Andersson, A., van de Weijer, J. & Paradis, C. (2019). ERP studies of visual and auditory processing of negated sentences.
- Farshchi, S., Andersson, A., van de Weijer, J. & Paradis, C. (2019). Event-related potentials to visual processing of incongruities in negated and affirmative sentences.
- Farshchi, S., Paradis, C., Andersson, A. & van de Weijer, J. (2019). Integration of negation in sentence comprehension : An ERP study.
- Pöldvere, N., Johansson, V. & Paradis, C. (2019). The new London–Lund Corpus (LLC–2) : Design, compilation, access.
- Paradis, C. (2019). Plenary talk The new London-Lund Corpus (LLC-2) : A window into natural speech in the 21st century.
- Simaki, V. & Paradis, C. (2019). Annotating stance in Twitter data : methodology, challenges and results.
- Hartman, J. & Paradis, C. (2018). Ways of simulating sensations and emotions through language.
- Kucher, K., Paradis, C. & Kerren, A. (2018). DoSVis : Document stance visualization. Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, 3, 168-175. SciTePress.
- Kucher, K., Paradis, C. & Kerren, A. (2018). Visual Analysis of Sentiment and Stance in Social Media Texts.
- Pöldvere, N. & Paradis, C. (2018). “What cause you were knackered?” : The reactive what-x construction in two corpora of Present-Day spoken English.
- Pöldvere, N. & Paradis, C. (2018). Constructions in context : The reactive what-x construction in English conversation.
- Pöldvere, N., De Felice, R. & Paradis, C. (2018). “Why don’t you go and do something different for a year?” : Tracking change in constructions expressing advice in informal conversation.
- Simaki, V., Simakis, P., Paradis, C. & Kerren, A. (2018). Detection of Stance-Related Characteristics in Social Media Text. SETN '18 Proceedings of the 10th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
- Farshchi, S., Paradis, C. & Andersson, R. (2017). Processing negation in a miniature artificial language.
- Martins, R. M., Simaki, V., Kucher, K., Paradis, C. & Kerren, A. (2017). StanceXplore: Visualization for the Interactive Exploration of Stance in Social Media.
- Pöldvere, N., Paradis, C. & Johansson, V. (2017). Dialogic resonance in the negotiation of stance : A study of spontaneous conversation in the London-Lund Corpus 2.
- Pöldvere, N., Paradis, C. & Johansson, V. (2017). The London-Lund Corpus 2 : A new corpus of spoken British English in the making.
- Pöldvere, N., Paradis, C. & Johansson, V. (2017). Turn-taking through the lens of dialogic resonance in spontaneous conversation.
- Pöldvere, N., Paradis, C. & Johansson, V. (2017). What gets resonated and why? : Dialogic resonance in the London-Lund Corpus 2.
- Paradis, C. & Caballero, R. (2017). Verbs in speech framing expressions : Comparing English and Spanish.
- Paradis, C. & Hartman, J. (2017). Comparative construal for vicarious sensory and emotive experience.
- Paradis, C. & van de Weijer, J. (2017). Are all opposites equal? If not, why not?.
- Simaki, V., Paradis, C. & Kerren, A. (2017). Stance Classification in Texts from Blogs on the 2016 British Referendum. Lectures in Artificial Intelligence, Speech and computer : 19th International Conference, SPECOM 2017, Hatfield, UK, September 12-16, 2017, Proceedings, 10458, 700-709.
- Simaki, V., Simakis, P., Paradis, C. & Andreas, K. (2017). Identifying the Authors’ National Variety of English in Social Media Texts. In Angelova, G., Bontcheva, K., Metkov, R., Nikolova, I. & Temnikova, I. (Eds.) Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing : Proceedings (pp. 671-678). Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Skeppstedt, M., Kucher, K., Paradis, C. & Kerren, A. (2017). Language processing components of the StaViCTA project.
- Skeppstedt, M., Simaki, V., Paradis, C. & Kerren, A. (2017). Detection of stance and sentiment modifiers in political blogs. In Karpov, A., Potapova, R. & Mporas, I. (Eds.) Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Speech and computer : 19th International Conference, SPECOM 2017, Hatfield, UK, September 12-16, 2017, Proceedings (pp. 302-311), 10458. Springer International Publishing.
- Strukelj, A., Andersson, R. & Paradis, C. (2017). Both failed and successful detection of incongruities affect the reading process : Evidence from eye movements.
- Strukelj, A., Andersson, R. & Paradis, C. (2017). Expecting the expected : Semantic incongruities are judged differently depending on the source during sentence judgment tasks.
- Caballero, R. & Paradis, C. (2016). From the glass through the nose and the mouth : Motion in the description of sensory data about wine in English and Spanish.
- Farshchi, S., Paradis, C. & Andersson, R. (2016). Narrow and broad functions of negation in a miniature artificial language.
- Fuoli, M., Pöldvere, N. & Paradis, C. (2016). Combining corpus and experimental methods to study dialogic engagement in spoken discourse : an analysis of complement-taking predicates.
- Hartman, J. & Paradis, C. (2016). Like God’s own Sneeze : Force as a basis for comparative and contrastive construal in narratives on Tourette Syndrome.
- Kucher, K., Kerren, A., Paradis, C. & Sahlgren, M. (2016). Methodology and Applications of Visual Stance Analysis : An Interactive Demo.
- Kucher, K., Kerren, A., Paradis, C. & Sahlgren, M. (2016). Visual Analysis of Text Annotations for Stance Classification with ALVA. In Isenberg, T. & Sadlo, F. (Eds.) EuroVis Posters 2016 (pp. 49-51). Eurographics - European Association for Computer Graphics.
- Pöldvere, N., Fuoli, M. & Paradis, C. (2016). Combining corpus and experimental methods to gain new insights into APPRAISAL in spoken discourse.
- Paradis, C. & Caballero, R. (2016). Cueing and construing dialogue in English and Spanish.
- Paradis, C., Fuoli, M. & Pöldvere, N. (2016). The intersubjective role of I think constructions in conversation : Combining evidence from corpus and experimental techniques.
- Skeppstedt, M., Sahlgren, M., Paradis, C. & Kerren, A. (2016). Active Learning for Detection of Stance Components. The 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics : Proceedings of COLING 2016, 50-59. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Skeppstedt, M., Sahlgren, M., Paradis, C. & Kerren, A. (2016). Unshared Task : (Dis)agreement in Online Debates. In Reed, C. (Ed.) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, The 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics : Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Argument Mining (ArgMining2016) (pp. 154-159). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
- Alfalahi, A., Skeppstedt, M., Ahlblom, R., Baskalayci, R., Henriksson, A., Asker, L., Paradis, C. & Kerren, A. (2015). Expanding a dictionary of marker words for uncertainty and negation using distributional semantics. In Grouin, C., Hamon, T., Névéol, A. & Zweigenbaum, P. (Eds.) EMNLP 2015 - 6th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis, LOUHI 2015 : Proceedings of the Workshop (pp. 90-96). The Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Bianchi, I., Burro, R., Nyström, M., Paradis, C. & van de Weijer, J. (2015). The perception of intermediates.
- Farshchi, S., Andersson, R. & Paradis, C. (2015). The processing cost of negation in sentence comprehension : Evidence from eye movements.
- Kucher, K., Kerren, A., Paradis, C. & Sahlgren, M. (2015). Visual analysis of stance markers in online social media. 2014 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, VAST 2014 : Proceedings. Paris, France, 9-14 October 2014, 259-260. IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
- Pöldvere, N. & Paradis, C. (2015). On the position and meanings of epistemic complement-taking predicates in spoken British English.
- Pöldvere, N. & Paradis, C. (2015). The peripheral-specific meanings of epistemic-evidential complement-taking predicates in English.
- Paradis, C. (2015). Words as cues to conceptual structure: theoretical considerations and practical applications.
- Paradis, C. & Tesfaye, D. (2015). On linguistics categories as categories : The case of antonyms and synonyms.
- Schamp-Bjerede, T., Paradis, C., Kucher, K., Kerren, A. & Sahlgren, M. (2015). New perspectives on gathering, vetting and employing Big Data from online social media : An interdisciplinary approach.
- Skeppstedt, M., Schamp-Bjerede, T., Sahlgren, M., Paradis, C. & Kerren, A. (2015). Detecting speculations, contrasts and conditionals in consumer reviews. In Alexandra, B., Erik, v. d. G., Piek, V. & Andrés, M. (Eds.) 6th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis, WASSA 2015 : Workshop proceedings (pp. 162-168). Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Tesfaye, D. & Paradis, C. (2015). On the use of antonyms and synonyms from a domain perspective. NetWordS 2015. Word Knowledge and Word Usage : Representations and Processes in the Mental Lexicon, 1347, 150-154. CEUR-WS.
- Farshchi, S., Andersson, R. & Paradis, C. (2014). The Processing Cost of Negation in Sentence Comprehension.
- Kucher, K., Kerren, A., Paradis, C. & Sahlgren, M. (2014). Visual analysis of stance markers in online social media.
- Pöldvere, N., Paradis, C. & Glynn, D. (2014). Stance constructions in computer-mediated and spoken discourse in English.
- Paradis, C. (2014). Kan vi prata om doft? I så fall, hur gör vi?.
- Rahimi, A., Sahlgren, M., Kerren, A. & Paradis, C. (2014). The StaViCTA Group Report for RepLab 2014 Reputation Dimensions Task. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 1180, 1519-1527. CEUR-WS.
- Schamp-Bjerede, T., Paradis, C., Kucher, K., Kerren, A. & Sahlgren, M. (2014). The signifier, signified & stance : happy/sad emoticons as emotionizers.
- Schamp-Bjerede, T., Paradis, C., Kucher, K., Kerren, A. & Sahlgren, M. (2014). Turning face : Emoticons as reinforcers/attenuators.
- Schamp-Bjerede, T., Paradis, C., Kucher, K., Kerren, A., Sahlgren, M. & Rahimi, A. (2014). Hedges and Tweets : Certainty and Uncertainty in Epistemic Markers in Microblog Feeds.
- Strukelj, A., Andersson, R. & Paradis, C. (2014). Your Very Helpful Brain in Action : Immediate Disruptions of the Reading Process and Lingering Effects of Error Correction.
- Põldvere, N., Glynn, D. & Paradis, C. (2013). Stance-taking and social status in an online bulletin board.
- Pöldvere, N., Paradis, C. & Glynn, D. (2013). Stance-taking and social status on an online bulletin board : A dialogical approach.
- Paradis, C. (2013). Are all opposites equal - or are some more equal than others?.
- Paradis, C. (2013). Binary opposition: A spatial configuration of comparison of opposite properties along a meaning dimension.
- Paradis, C., Löhndorf, S., van de Weijer, J. & Willners, C. (2013). Antonyms and opposing valence.
- Strukelj, A., Nyström, M. & Paradis, C. (2013). Reading What You Think You See. Good Enough Representations and Lingering Effects of Error Correction.
- Strukelj, A., Nyström, M. & Paradis, C. (2013). Reading What You Think You See. Good Enough Representations and Lingering Effects of Error Correction: Evidence from Antonymic Pairs.
- Paradis, C. (2012). Constructing credibility in discourse Modes of knowing, temporality and epistemic control.
- Paradis, C. (2012). English Linguistics Festival in honour of Beatrice Warren.
- Paradis, C. (2012). NetWordS: Perspectives on synergy.
- Paradis, C. (2012). Reading Intentions: from children to robots.
- Paradis, C. (2012). White aromas and subtle oak spices: From sensory experiences to language through conceptual spaces.
- Paradis, C. & Caballero, R. (2012). Sensory perceptions in language and cognition.
- Paradis, C., Löhndorf, S., van de Weijer, J. & Willners, C. (2012). What makes a good antonym pair? A corpus-based study of patterns of use in context.
- van de Weijer, J., Paradis, C. & Willners, C. (2012). Antonyms and evaluative polarity.
- Kerren, A., Pangrova, M. & Paradis, C. (2011). Visualization of sensory perception description.
- Löhndorf, S., Paradis, C., van de Weijer, J. & Willners, C. (2011). On the symmetry of usage of canonical antonyms in discourse.
- Lindgren, M., Paradis, C., van de Weijer, J., Willners, C. & Stiernströmer, E. (2011). Measuring antonym canonicity using ERP technique.
- Paradis, C. (2011). A construction grammar approach to antonymy.
- Paradis, C. (2011). Antonymy in language, thought and memory.
- Paradis, C. (2011). English Linguistics Festival in honour of Jan Svartvik.
- Paradis, C. (2011). On metonymies, metaphors and similes in perceptual descriptions of wine.
- Paradis, C. (2010). A sweet nose of earth, smoke, cassis and cherries: Descriptions of sensory perceptions in wine tasting notes.
- Paradis, C. & Hommerberg, C. (2010). Temporailty and epistemic control.
- Paradis, C. & Hommerberg, C. (2010). Temporailty as a function of epistemic control: a rhetorical account.
- Paradis, C., van de Weijer, J. & Willners, C. (2010). The relation between antonym co-occurrence in text, semantic judgements and lexical recognition.
- Paradis, C. (2009). Good, better and superb antonyms: a dynamic construal approach.
- Paradis, C. (2009). Negation and approximation as configuration construals in SPACE.
- Paradis, C. (2009). Recommendations: expressions of weakly deontic modality.
- Paradis, C. (2009). The middle construction: some thoughts on the notion of 'construction' in linguistic theory.
- Paradis, C. (2009). Touchdowns in winespeak: ontologies and construals in use and meaning-making.
- Paradis, C. (2009). What kind of meanings form conventionalized antonym pairings?.
- Paradis, C. (2008). Metonymization as a key mechanism in semantic change.
- Paradis, C. & Willners, C. (2008). Svenska antonymer: tre olika sätt att angripa skillnaden mellan bra och dåliga antonymer.
- Jones, S., Murphy, L., Paradis, C. & Willners, C. (2007). Using web data to investigate antonym canonicity.
- Murphy, L., Paradis, C. & Willners, C. (2007). Discourse functions of antonyms: a cross-linguistic investigation of Swedish and English.
- Paradis, C. (2007). Antonym canonicity.
- Paradis, C. & Willners, C. (2007). On the principles of antonym inclusion in a learners' dictionary.
- Paradis, C., Willners, C. & Murphy, L. (2007). Dimensions of meaning and antonym canonicity.
- Paradis, C. & Willners, C. (2006). Polarity, scalarity and boundedness.
- Paradis, C. & Willners, C. (2006). What a corpus-based dictionary tells us about antonymy. In Corino, E., Maraello, C. & Onesti, C. (Eds.) Proceedings XII EURALEX International Congress (pp. 213-220).
- Paradis, C., Murphy, L., Löhndorf, S. & Willners, C. (2006). Quantifying aspects of antonym canonicity in English and Swedish: textual and experimental.
- Jones, S., Murphy, L., Paradis, C. & Willners, C. (2005). Googling for opposites: a phraseological approach to assessing antonym canonicity.
- Paradis, C. (2005). Degree modifiers, configurations, construals and change.
- Paradis, C. & Willners, C. (2005). Är 'inte lätt' svårt och 'inte svårt' lätt?.
- Paradis, C. & Willners, C. (2005). Antonymy and negation.
- Paradis, C. & Willners, C. (2005). Is 'not easy' difficult and 'not difficult' easy?.
- Paradis, C. (2004). Metonymization, facetization and the corpus.
- Paradis, C. & Willners, C. (2004). Let's have a look in the margins: antonyms pairs in COBUILD.
- Paradis, C. & Willners, C. (2004). On the interpretation of scalar antonyms and their negated equivalents.
- Paradis, C. & Willners, C. (2004). Polarity and negation of pairs of antonyms: an experiment.
- Paradis, C. (2003). A terrible bore is terribly boring: towards a theory of meaning as ontologies and construals.
- Paradis, C. (2003). Betwteen epistemic modality and degree.
- Paradis, C. (2003). Lexical meanings as ontologies and construals.
- Paradis, C. (2003). Meaning as ontology and construal.
- Paradis, C. & Bergmark, N. (2003). Am I really really mature or something: really in teentalk. In Aijmer, K. & Olinder, B. (Eds.) Proceedings from the 8th Nordic Conference on English Studies (pp. 71-86). Göteborg University, Department of English.
- Paradis, C. (2001). Between epistemic modality and degree: the case of really.
- Paradis, C. (2000). Poor linguists - on the outskirts of the category of adjectives.
- Paradis, C. (1999). Adjectives and boundedness.
- Paradis, C. (1998). Degree modifiers revisited.
- Paradis, C. (1998). Reinforcing adjectives in a grammaticalization perspective.
- Paradis, C. (1993). Compromiser - a notional paradigm.
- Paradis, C. (1992). The use of quite.
Working papers (6)
- Haghighatkhah, P., El-Assady, M., Fekete, J.-D., Mahyar, N., Paradis, C., Simaki, V. & Speckmann, B. (2022). Characterizing Uncertainty in the Visual Text Analysis Pipeline. arXiv.org.
- Paradis, C. (2004). Towards a theory of lexical meaning as ontologies and construals. The department of English in Lund: working papers in linguistics.
- Malmström, H. & Paradis, C. (2003). Modelling speech production – evidence from Swedish blends. The department of English in Lund: working papers in linguistics.
- Paradis, C. (2003). Where Does Metonymy Stop? Senses, Facets and Active Zones. The Department of English in Lund: Working Papers in Linguistics.
- Paradis, C. (2002). Between epistemic modality and degree: the case of really. The department of English in Lund: working papers in linguistics.
- Paradis, C. (2002). Is the Notion of Linguistic Competence at all Relevant in Cognitive Linguistics?. The Department of English in Lund: Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol 1.
Reviews (1)
Supervision at Lund University (10)
- Löhndorf, S. (2021). Development of Adjectival Use and Meaning Structures in Swedish Students' Written production. Lund University. Dissertation.
- Pöldvere, N. (2019). What's in a dialogue? : On the dynamics of meaning-making in English conversation. Media-Tryck, Lund University, Sweden. Dissertation.
- Farshchi, S. (2019). Neural and behavioural mechanisms underlying the processing of negated meanings : Words, pictures and sentences. MediaTryck Lund. Dissertation.
- Strukelj, A. (2018). Reading expectations : How expectations influence our reading, eye movements, opinions, and judgments. Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University. Dissertation.
- Fuoli, M. (2017). Organizational Trust : Discourse Analytical and Experimental Perspectives. Dissertation.
- Hartman, J. (2013). Bit : An examination of the explanatory power of a meaning potential approach to the description of lexical meaning. Stockholm University. Dissertation.
- Jepson, B. (2011). English Place-Name Elements Relating to Boundaries. Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University. Dissertation.
- Frännhag, H. (2010). Interpretive Functions of Adjectives in English – A Cognitive Approach. Dissertation.
- Malmström, H. (2007). Accountability and the making of knowledge statements : a study of academic discourse. Dissertation.
- Beijer, F. (2005). On the Relative Order of Adverbs in the I-domain: A study of English and Swedish. English Studies. Dissertation.
Other tasks and qualifications
I was Chair of the Scientific Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2013 - 2015) and of Linguistics (2010 - 2015) at The Swedish Research Council,. I am scientific member of the Spanish State Research Agency (2018) and member of the review panel for Linguistics at the Academy of Finland (2019-2021)
Panel member for Overseas Expertise Introduction Project for Discipline Innovation (OEIP) to achieve academic excellence at the Shanghai International Studies University (2021–2023).
Visiting Fellow at Università di Verona (2021)
Supervision: Dr Simone Löhndorf (Lund University, 2021), Dr Nele Põldvere (Lund University, 2019), Dr Sara Farshchi (Lund University, 2019), Dr Kostiantyn Kucher (Linnaeus University, 2019), Dr Alexander Strukelj (Lund University, 2019), Dr Hanna Glad (Linnaeus University,2018), Dr Matteo Fuoli (Lund University, 2017); Dr Jenny Hartman (Stockholm University, 2013), Dr Charlotte Hommerberg (Linnaeus University, 2011), Dr Boel Jepsson, (Lund University, 2011), Dr Helena Frännhag (Lund University, 2010), Licentiate of Art, Roy Liddle (Linnaeus University, 2010), Dr Hans Malmström (Lund University,2008), Dr Anna Wärnsby (Lund University, 2007), Dr Fabian Beijer (Lund University, 2005)

Professor Emerita, Researcher
- English Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail carita.paradisenglund.luse
Room SOL:H327
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
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