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Professor, Manager of Research and Research Education
- English Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail carita.paradisenglund.luse
Phone +46 46 222 75 49
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, of Academia Europaea, President of the Royal Society of Letters, Lund.
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 (AEI, Mind, Language and Thought, 2018 -) and member of the review panel for Linguistics at the Academy of Finland (2020 -).
Our new spoken corpus! The London-Lund Corpus 2
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- Language, Cognition and Discourse@Lund (LCD@L) (research leader)
- Maneras de actuar, pensar, hablar y sentir en inglés y español
- Language as a tool for understanding consumer attitudes and improving the social impact of sustainable products
- How the human mind makes use of contraries in everyday life: A new multidimensional approach to contraries in perception, language, reasoning and emotions (research leader)
- Mediation of sensory experiences by individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Reading expectations: How expectations influence our reading, eye movements, opinions, and judgments
- The art of giving advice in everyday conversation
- 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)
- 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., De Felice, R. & Paradis, C. (accepted/in press). Advice in conversation : A mixed-methods approach to corpus pragmatics. Cambridge Elements in Pragmatics. Cambridge University Press.
- 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.
- 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 (9)
- 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.
- Manninen, S. & Paradis, C. (2001). (Eds.) The Department of English in Lund: Working Papers in Linguistics Vol 1.
- 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 (47)
- 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.
- Hartman, J. & Paradis, C. (2020). Figurative meaning in multimodal work by an autistic artist: a cognitive semantic approach. Language and Cognition. Cambridge University Press.
- 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 Workshop Proceedings.
- 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. Mouton 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. (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)
- 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 sensuous cognition: Domains, dimensions and distances. In Zenker, F. & Gärdenfors, P. (Eds.) Applications of Conceptual spaces: Geometric knowledge representation (pp. 33-55). Springer.
- 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. & Bergmark, N. (2003). Am I really really mature or something: Really in teentalk. In Aijmer, K. & Olinder, B. (Eds.) Proceedings from the 8th conference on English studies (pp. 71-86). Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis.
- 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 (127)
- 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.
- Pöldvere, N., Johansson, V. & Paradis, C. (2020). The new London–Lund Corpus 2 : Key methodological challenges and innovations.
- 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. The 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics : Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Argument Mining, 154-159. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Alfalahi, A., Ahlblom, R., Skeppstedt, M., 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.) [Host publication title missing] (pp. 90-96).
- 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). From synchrony to diachrony : Stance constructions in computer-mediated and spoken discourse.
- 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 (5)
- 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 (8)
- 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 University. 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.
- 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.
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