Carsten Levisen
@levisen.bsky.social
Cultural Linguistics • Semantics & Pragmatics • Construction Grammar • Green & Blue Humanities • Postcolonial & Decolonial Language Studies • “Danish in the Making” 🌱 New Book 2024: “Postcolonial Semantics: Meaning and Metalanguage in Multipolar World”
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Carsten Levisen
@levisen.bsky.social
· Jun 25
This is Brisbane calling. Our Panel “Blue Pragmatics” will take place in two days: panel of linguists & communication scholars from all across the world, exploring al kinds of planetary waters! If you are near St. Lucia UQ, come join us at #IPrA
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Our panel on blue pragmatics is happening tomorrow! We’ll be exploring how people talk about the sea and planetary waters 🌊 Come join us #IPrA
This is Brisbane calling. Our Panel “Blue Pragmatics” will take place in two days: panel of linguists & communication scholars from all across the world, exploring al kinds of planetary waters! If you are near St. Lucia UQ, come join us at #IPrA
June 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Our panel on blue pragmatics is happening tomorrow! We’ll be exploring how people talk about the sea and planetary waters 🌊 Come join us #IPrA
I love The Mouth. The most creative journal I know.
June 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I love The Mouth. The most creative journal I know.
This is Brisbane calling. Our Panel “Blue Pragmatics” will take place in two days: panel of linguists & communication scholars from all across the world, exploring al kinds of planetary waters! If you are near St. Lucia UQ, come join us at #IPrA
June 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM
This is Brisbane calling. Our Panel “Blue Pragmatics” will take place in two days: panel of linguists & communication scholars from all across the world, exploring al kinds of planetary waters! If you are near St. Lucia UQ, come join us at #IPrA
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New paper: "Compound" and "incorporation" are technical terms, and many linguists seem to think that one needs theories of them before one can have proper definitions, but I don't think so – so I have gone ahead and proposed (retro-)definitions of these terms. journals.linguistik.de/zwjw/article...
April 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM
New paper: "Compound" and "incorporation" are technical terms, and many linguists seem to think that one needs theories of them before one can have proper definitions, but I don't think so – so I have gone ahead and proposed (retro-)definitions of these terms. journals.linguistik.de/zwjw/article...
📍Earlier today in the research group *Language, Culture and Transformative Practices*, Roskilde University, Denmark. A research group full of organised, playful and creative interactions - and thank you @GustavGaardbo for leading us in play today! #ideageneration #socially #sustainable #research
April 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
📍Earlier today in the research group *Language, Culture and Transformative Practices*, Roskilde University, Denmark. A research group full of organised, playful and creative interactions - and thank you @GustavGaardbo for leading us in play today! #ideageneration #socially #sustainable #research
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With the #DGfS2025 in full swing, it is a pleasure to reunite with our authors. Among them: Carsten Levisen (@levisen.bsky.social), the author of "Postcolonial Semantics. Meaning and Metalanguage in a Multipolar World" - now available in #OpenAccess!
🔗📖 www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
🔗📖 www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
March 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
With the #DGfS2025 in full swing, it is a pleasure to reunite with our authors. Among them: Carsten Levisen (@levisen.bsky.social), the author of "Postcolonial Semantics. Meaning and Metalanguage in a Multipolar World" - now available in #OpenAccess!
🔗📖 www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
🔗📖 www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
*Idioms and Idiomaticity*, by Chitra Fernando. A lonely and forgotten, but superb monograph from mid-90s. Rediscovered it on my shelf. The ryebread, egg and coffee = nostalgia, atmosphere
January 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
*Idioms and Idiomaticity*, by Chitra Fernando. A lonely and forgotten, but superb monograph from mid-90s. Rediscovered it on my shelf. The ryebread, egg and coffee = nostalgia, atmosphere
🇬🇱Yesterday in our research group “Language, Culture & Transformative Practices”
📍A brilliant & highly topical and talk: Contact Zone Semantics in Kalaallit Nunaat by Stephanie Mašková (Griffith U)
⛰️ About words, people, landscape, #Kalaallisut, #Danish, nature, elevated places and much more!!
📍A brilliant & highly topical and talk: Contact Zone Semantics in Kalaallit Nunaat by Stephanie Mašková (Griffith U)
⛰️ About words, people, landscape, #Kalaallisut, #Danish, nature, elevated places and much more!!
January 29, 2025 at 8:37 AM
🇬🇱Yesterday in our research group “Language, Culture & Transformative Practices”
📍A brilliant & highly topical and talk: Contact Zone Semantics in Kalaallit Nunaat by Stephanie Mašková (Griffith U)
⛰️ About words, people, landscape, #Kalaallisut, #Danish, nature, elevated places and much more!!
📍A brilliant & highly topical and talk: Contact Zone Semantics in Kalaallit Nunaat by Stephanie Mašková (Griffith U)
⛰️ About words, people, landscape, #Kalaallisut, #Danish, nature, elevated places and much more!!
I have cravings after #scrivener my favorite writing program. But it crashed dramatically earlier this month, I almost lost my entire book manus. Yet, working in Word and Google docs is not the same. I wish, I dared to go back
December 23, 2024 at 9:31 AM
I have cravings after #scrivener my favorite writing program. But it crashed dramatically earlier this month, I almost lost my entire book manus. Yet, working in Word and Google docs is not the same. I wish, I dared to go back
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Hot off the press: the 2nd edition of my textbook "Intercultural Communication: Pathways to Better Interactions."
Check it out if you teach intro-level undergraduate intercultural comm courses with an emphasis on everyday interaction!
Check it out if you teach intro-level undergraduate intercultural comm courses with an emphasis on everyday interaction!
Intercultural Communication
titles.cognella.com
December 15, 2024 at 12:46 AM
Hot off the press: the 2nd edition of my textbook "Intercultural Communication: Pathways to Better Interactions."
Check it out if you teach intro-level undergraduate intercultural comm courses with an emphasis on everyday interaction!
Check it out if you teach intro-level undergraduate intercultural comm courses with an emphasis on everyday interaction!
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I'm always eager to bring lots of interdisciplinary cogsci to students who might not otherwise hear these ideas, including work by @damianblasi.bsky.social, @asifamajid.bsky.social, @hugospiers.bsky.social, @glupyan.bsky.social, @levisen.bsky.social, and of course many folks not on here!
December 10, 2024 at 6:39 PM
I'm always eager to bring lots of interdisciplinary cogsci to students who might not otherwise hear these ideas, including work by @damianblasi.bsky.social, @asifamajid.bsky.social, @hugospiers.bsky.social, @glupyan.bsky.social, @levisen.bsky.social, and of course many folks not on here!
At the German-Danish border. 🚂🚃🚃🚃.
“The train has a technisch problem. We repeat: this train has a technisch problem”
#translanguaging #trains
“The train has a technisch problem. We repeat: this train has a technisch problem”
#translanguaging #trains
December 10, 2024 at 12:32 PM
At the German-Danish border. 🚂🚃🚃🚃.
“The train has a technisch problem. We repeat: this train has a technisch problem”
#translanguaging #trains
“The train has a technisch problem. We repeat: this train has a technisch problem”
#translanguaging #trains
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I love that we got to choose the cover this time!
Our edited book “Manipulation, influence, deception” should be out any day now. I have a 20% discount code if anyone is interested 🙃
Best co-author @sofiaruediger.bsky.social 🥂
🐦🐦
Our edited book “Manipulation, influence, deception” should be out any day now. I have a 20% discount code if anyone is interested 🙃
Best co-author @sofiaruediger.bsky.social 🥂
🐦🐦
December 5, 2024 at 11:21 AM
I love that we got to choose the cover this time!
Our edited book “Manipulation, influence, deception” should be out any day now. I have a 20% discount code if anyone is interested 🙃
Best co-author @sofiaruediger.bsky.social 🥂
🐦🐦
Our edited book “Manipulation, influence, deception” should be out any day now. I have a 20% discount code if anyone is interested 🙃
Best co-author @sofiaruediger.bsky.social 🥂
🐦🐦
Reading now:
Section 3 👀: “A constructional approach to hell: The devil is in the schema”. 👹@steffenhoeder.de on “Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages” #constructiongrammar #devil
Section 3 👀: “A constructional approach to hell: The devil is in the schema”. 👹@steffenhoeder.de on “Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages” #constructiongrammar #devil
December 4, 2024 at 10:58 AM
Reading now:
Section 3 👀: “A constructional approach to hell: The devil is in the schema”. 👹@steffenhoeder.de on “Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages” #constructiongrammar #devil
Section 3 👀: “A constructional approach to hell: The devil is in the schema”. 👹@steffenhoeder.de on “Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages” #constructiongrammar #devil
Sustainability? The word that saves our planet — or yet another Anglocentric imposition on global discourse?
#linguistics #sustainability #keywords
Podcast with Jilian Melchior (Helsinki) and myself. Download here:
blogs.helsinki.fi/linguisticsa...
#linguistics #sustainability #keywords
Podcast with Jilian Melchior (Helsinki) and myself. Download here:
blogs.helsinki.fi/linguisticsa...
Interviews – Linguistics and Sustainability
blogs.helsinki.fi
November 30, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Sustainability? The word that saves our planet — or yet another Anglocentric imposition on global discourse?
#linguistics #sustainability #keywords
Podcast with Jilian Melchior (Helsinki) and myself. Download here:
blogs.helsinki.fi/linguisticsa...
#linguistics #sustainability #keywords
Podcast with Jilian Melchior (Helsinki) and myself. Download here:
blogs.helsinki.fi/linguisticsa...
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"Transnational Korean Englishes" (co-authored with Alex Baratta) to appear with CUP as a #WorldEnglishes Element 🤩 Very proud of this little book! Just announced at www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Transnational Korean Englishes
Cambridge Core - History of the English Language - Transnational Korean Englishes
www.cambridge.org
November 28, 2024 at 1:39 PM
"Transnational Korean Englishes" (co-authored with Alex Baratta) to appear with CUP as a #WorldEnglishes Element 🤩 Very proud of this little book! Just announced at www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Sudha Vepa and I have something to say about philanthrocapitalism and the languaging of empowered women, particularly in global south settings like the one we examined. Article available in full-open access here: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
Philantrocapitalism and the languaging of empowered women in the Global South
This article explores the impact of market-driven corporate philanthropy on educational institutions and their social actors, with a focus on how ideas of English and women’s empowerment become instit...
www.degruyter.com
November 27, 2024 at 11:58 AM
Sudha Vepa and I have something to say about philanthrocapitalism and the languaging of empowered women, particularly in global south settings like the one we examined. Article available in full-open access here: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
Earlier today, at my research group “Language, Culture & Transformative Practices”
This talk 👇🏻 by Sune Mortensen:
**Linguistic Constructions of Sexual Abuse and Consent in Danish Rape Trials**
Extremely important research for both linguistics and society
#linguistics #discourse
This talk 👇🏻 by Sune Mortensen:
**Linguistic Constructions of Sexual Abuse and Consent in Danish Rape Trials**
Extremely important research for both linguistics and society
#linguistics #discourse
Sune Sønderberg Mortensen
forskning.ruc.dk
November 27, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Earlier today, at my research group “Language, Culture & Transformative Practices”
This talk 👇🏻 by Sune Mortensen:
**Linguistic Constructions of Sexual Abuse and Consent in Danish Rape Trials**
Extremely important research for both linguistics and society
#linguistics #discourse
This talk 👇🏻 by Sune Mortensen:
**Linguistic Constructions of Sexual Abuse and Consent in Danish Rape Trials**
Extremely important research for both linguistics and society
#linguistics #discourse
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"By Humboldt's liberal reasoning, the state had no claims to intervene in internal affairs such as education, but existed solely to prevent harm to individuals or communities, with its responsibility for maintaining their welfare and security."
November 26, 2024 at 3:40 PM
"By Humboldt's liberal reasoning, the state had no claims to intervene in internal affairs such as education, but existed solely to prevent harm to individuals or communities, with its responsibility for maintaining their welfare and security."
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Out now (hardbound soon): Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages benjamins.com/catalog/cal.37 #CxG #NordicLanguages
Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages
The volume showcases the vibrant research activity within part of the construction grammar community dealing with Nordic languages, contributing to the knowledge about the structure, use and learning ...
benjamins.com
November 19, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Out now (hardbound soon): Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages benjamins.com/catalog/cal.37 #CxG #NordicLanguages
On a Danish 🚂 🚃🚃🚃. Again. Writing about “landscape constructions” in Nordic languages. But I have come to somehow dislike this English word “landscape” and all other kinds of -scapes - and the spectator bias it represents 🖼️. #linguistics #CxG
November 25, 2024 at 2:03 PM
On a Danish 🚂 🚃🚃🚃. Again. Writing about “landscape constructions” in Nordic languages. But I have come to somehow dislike this English word “landscape” and all other kinds of -scapes - and the spectator bias it represents 🖼️. #linguistics #CxG
Also 2024, with Zhengdao Ye and a group of amazing colleagues 🤩:
“The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives”
In the legendary “Pragmatics and Beyond New Series” 😊
benjamins.com/catalog/pbns...
“The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives”
In the legendary “Pragmatics and Beyond New Series” 😊
benjamins.com/catalog/pbns...
November 24, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Also 2024, with Zhengdao Ye and a group of amazing colleagues 🤩:
“The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives”
In the legendary “Pragmatics and Beyond New Series” 😊
benjamins.com/catalog/pbns...
“The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives”
In the legendary “Pragmatics and Beyond New Series” 😊
benjamins.com/catalog/pbns...
2024, the year of my second monograph 😊. It’s called:
“Postcolonial Semantics: Meaning and Metalanguage in Multipolar World”, De Gruyter
And you can all read it, bc it is open access
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
“Postcolonial Semantics: Meaning and Metalanguage in Multipolar World”, De Gruyter
And you can all read it, bc it is open access
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
November 24, 2024 at 8:46 PM
2024, the year of my second monograph 😊. It’s called:
“Postcolonial Semantics: Meaning and Metalanguage in Multipolar World”, De Gruyter
And you can all read it, bc it is open access
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
“Postcolonial Semantics: Meaning and Metalanguage in Multipolar World”, De Gruyter
And you can all read it, bc it is open access
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
Hello followers! Great to connect. I’m a linguist working on meaning, both in the “small” sense: the meanings of particular words and constructions, and the “big” sense: meanings we live by, linguaculture(s) and linguistic worldviews. forskning.ruc.dk/en/persons/c... also aias.au.dk/aias-fellows...
Carsten Levisen
forskning.ruc.dk
November 24, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Hello followers! Great to connect. I’m a linguist working on meaning, both in the “small” sense: the meanings of particular words and constructions, and the “big” sense: meanings we live by, linguaculture(s) and linguistic worldviews. forskning.ruc.dk/en/persons/c... also aias.au.dk/aias-fellows...