Conferencia "Applying linguistics to the experience of cancer" a cargo de la Dra. Zsófia Demjén

This lecture will illustrate the ways in which knowledge about language is useful in contexts beyond the teaching and learning of languages or the exploration of speech and language difficulties. After an overview of some definitions,objectives and challenges of the field of applied linguistics, the lecture will draw on the context of cancer experiences to show the contributions that applied linguistics can make more broadly in healthcare.

Zsófia Demjén is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics, University College London. Her research interests include health communication, metaphor, and the intersections of language, mind and health(care). She is author of Sylvia Plath and the Language of Affective States: Written Discourse and the Experience of Depression (2015, Bloomsbury), co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language (2017) and her work has appeared in the Journal of Pragmatics, Applied Linguistics, Communication & Medicine, Medical Humanities, and Discourse Studies among others.