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Dr Monika Pleyer
@linguisticisms.bsky.social
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PhD in linguistics. Researching Impoliteness in children's fiction, and metaphors in virtual health discourses (esp. on dementia). 🩷💜💙 they/she
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New paper alert!
In my newest paper, which has just appeared in Discourse, Context & Media, I analyse how people living with dementia use conceptual metaphor to construct self and their condition and as a tool for sense-making for dementia-induced changes
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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a screenshot of the first page of Monika's paper titled "I still hope it's just a blip - Constructing life with dementia in a public digital health community"
November 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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My latest paper is out in OA! I discuss how family care partners use conceptual #metaphor in an online forum to conceptualise #caregiving and 'their' person living with #dementia

www.winter-verlag.de/de/detail/97...
book cover of an edited volume on discourse-analytic perspectives on medical communication in the European context A screenshot of the start page of Monika's paper, showing the title and parts of the introduction
March 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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I'm overjoyed to announce my first co-authored project of 2025: welcome to the world, Samuel *14.02.3025
The hands of two adults wrapped around the hand of a newborn
February 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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That moment when you can combine your twin passions in teaching: illness metaphors and power metal
#whatlibguistsdo
a lecture slide about the definition of PTSD as "shell shock"; the slide includes an excerpt of Manowar's song Shell Shock
December 12, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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Yuletide baking has commenced!
Cheese bites after a family recipe German black-and-white cookies after a family recipe
December 8, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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There are days when dreams do come true. Today I signed my permanent contract at the English Department in Heidelberg. Thank you to everyone who supported me on my way here! #IchWarHanna
Monika's new permanent contract Monika's office door with a yellow #IchBinHanna poster. A red sticker saying #IchWarHanna is taped over it
March 13, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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Meet Louie, aka the best doggo, who'll be doing his best to distract me from my dementia data analyses
Louie (a black labrador pinscher mixed breed) is lying under Monika's desk and looking up at her
October 31, 2023 at 1:01 PM
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... ich scheine zu viel Zeit mit schwäbischen Freund*innen zu verbringen... #wirkönnenallesaußerhochdeutsch
Screenshot eines Stücks akademischer Prosa; in gelb markiert ist "auf des Theater ausweiten"
September 19, 2023 at 2:29 PM
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#DieHellenDinge - Semestervorbereitung (Proseminar Morphology) kurz für Kaffee und Pflaumenkuchen unterbrechen
A coffee cup and a slice of streusel plum cake on a wooden table
September 15, 2023 at 11:36 AM