I work as a researcher with the project: Making sense of autism, ADHD, OCD, and Tourette Syndrome: a cognitive semantic perspective. The project is funded by the Crafoord Foundation and the Torsten Söderberg Foundation. It explores meaning making in written communication about these neurodevelopmental disorders in order to delineate the basic conceptualizations that underlie representations of autism, ADHD, OCD, and TS in written communication and to determine how these relate to overall communicative aims. By describing and comparing different modes of written communication around these disorders, the project asks whether medical practitioners and patients construct and use shared or distinct meaning systems relative to autism, ADHD, OCD, and TS.

Articles (5)

• Hartman, J. (2019). Conditionals in therapy and counseling sessions : Therapists' and clients' uses of what-if constructions. Journal of Pragmatics, 140, 112-126. Elsevier.
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• Hartman, J. (2018). Constructions of contrast in spoken testimonials on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Language and Cognition, 10, 83-109.
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• Hartman, J. & Paradis, C. (2018). Emotive and sensory simulation through comparative construal. Metaphor and Symbol, 33, 123-143. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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• Hartman, J. (2017). Premonitory urges and Touretting volcanoes : Force construal in personal narratives on Tourette Syndrome. Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 15, 155-183. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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• Hartman, J. (2016). A meaning potential approach to lexical meaning : the case of bit. English Language and Linguistics, 20, 85-106. Cambridge University Press.
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Conference contributions (3)

• Hartman, J. & Paradis, C. (2018). Ways of simulating sensations and emotions through language.
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• Paradis, C. & Hartman, J. (2017). Comparative construal for vicarious sensory and emotive experience.
• Hartman, J. & Paradis, C. (2016). Like God’s own Sneeze : Force as a basis for comparative and contrastive construal in narratives on Tourette Syndrome.