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Carita Paradis (born 1953) is a Swedish linguist, and Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lund University. Her research is focused on the dynamics of meaning-making in human communication. Within the framework of Cognitive Semantics, her works highlight the meaningful functioning of language in all its guises and all its uses when people communicate with one another. She is best known for her work on meanings related to degree, opposition and stance-taking in human communication. She has authored/co-authored and edited several books, including Degree Modifiers of Adjectives in Spoken British English, Antonyms in English: Construals, Constructions and Canonicity, The Construal of Spatial Meaning: Windows into Conceptual Space, Representing Wine – Sensory Perceptions, Communicat

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  • Carita Paradis (born 1953) is a Swedish linguist, and Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lund University. Her research is focused on the dynamics of meaning-making in human communication. Within the framework of Cognitive Semantics, her works highlight the meaningful functioning of language in all its guises and all its uses when people communicate with one another. She is best known for her work on meanings related to degree, opposition and stance-taking in human communication. She has authored/co-authored and edited several books, including Degree Modifiers of Adjectives in Spoken British English, Antonyms in English: Construals, Constructions and Canonicity, The Construal of Spatial Meaning: Windows into Conceptual Space, Representing Wine – Sensory Perceptions, Communication and Cultures, and Advice in Conversation: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Corpus Pragmatics. Paradis is a Member and former President of the Royal Society of Letters at Lund, and a Member of Academia Europaea. She has served as the Chair of the Scientific Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and of Linguistics at The Swedish Research Council. She is Editor of Cognitive Linguistics in Practice book series. (en)
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  • Carita Paradis (born 1953) is a Swedish linguist, and Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lund University. Her research is focused on the dynamics of meaning-making in human communication. Within the framework of Cognitive Semantics, her works highlight the meaningful functioning of language in all its guises and all its uses when people communicate with one another. She is best known for her work on meanings related to degree, opposition and stance-taking in human communication. She has authored/co-authored and edited several books, including Degree Modifiers of Adjectives in Spoken British English, Antonyms in English: Construals, Constructions and Canonicity, The Construal of Spatial Meaning: Windows into Conceptual Space, Representing Wine – Sensory Perceptions, Communicat (en)
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