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Interest Areas
- language acquisition, (inter-)relations between cognitive and linguistic ontogeny
- language change, language evolution and decay
- cognitive aspects of language use, language production and reception (including reading)
- experimental cognitive linguistics
- cognitive corpus and computational linguistics
- language pathology/language disorders
- language and affect/emotion
- (multi-)modality, gestures
- cognitive aspects of second/foreign language learning and teaching
- intersection linguistic pragmatics – cognitive linguistics
- innovation, entrenchment, conventionalization
- figurativity, conceptual metaphor and metonymy, conceptual blending
- cognitive and pragmatic dimensions of language change
- grammatical and lexical chunking, collocations
- Construction Grammar
- conceptualization/construal, thinking-for-speaking, linguistic relativism
- contextual and interindividual variation
- (neuro-)cognitive poetics