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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 Academia Europaea, AcademiaNet - Outstanding Women Scientists in Europe, presently Bosch Alumni Network, and President of the Royal Society of Letters, Lund (-2021).
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My profile in Lund University research portalI 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) and I serve as European Research Council expert in Brussels (2023-)
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 Sergio González de la Higuera Rojo (Lund University, 2025), The development of accent stereotypes in late childhood: A tale of two English cities.
- Dr Simone Löhndorf (Lund University, 2021), Development of adjectival use and meaning structures in Swedish students’ written production.
- Dr Nele Põldvere (Lund University, 2019), What’s in a dialogue? On the dynamics of meaning-making in English conversation.
- Dr Sara Farshchi (Lund University, 2019), Neural and behavioural mechanisms underlying the processing of negated meanings: Words,pictures and sentences.
- Dr Kostiantyn Kucher (Linnaeus University, 2019), Sentiment and Stance Visualization of TextualData for Social Media.
- Dr Alexander Strukelj (Lund University, 2019), Reading expectations: How expectations influence our reading, eye movements, opinions, and judgements.
- Dr Matteo Fuoli (Lund University, 2017), , Organizational Trust: Discourseanalytical and experimental perspectives.
- Dr Hanna Glad (Linnaeus University,2016), Keep V-ing: aspectuality and event structure.
- Dr Jenny Hartman (Stockholm University, 2013), Bit: an examination of the explanatory power of a meaning potential approach to the description of lexical meaning.
- Dr Charlotte Hommerberg (Linnaeus University, 2011), Persuasiveness in the discourse of wine: the rhetoric of Robert Parker.
- Dr Boel Jepsson, (Lund University, 2011), English place-name elements relating to boundaries.
- Dr Helena Frännhag (Lund University, 2010), Premodifying adjectives in English.
- Licentiate of Art, Roy Liddle (Linnaeus University, 2010), SPEED andTIME in the event modifier lexemesslow,fast and quick.
- Dr Hans Malmström (Lund University,2008), Accountability and the making of knowledge statements – a study of academic discourse.
- Dr Anna Wärnsby (Lund University, 2007),(De)coding modality: the case of must,may, måste, and kan.
- Dr Fabian Beijer (Lund University, 2005), On the relative order of adverbs in the I-domain: a study of English and Swedish.

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
