Gitte Kristiansen

Biography

Gitte Kristiansen is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where she lectures on Semantics, Cognitive Linguistics, and Sociolinguistics. Between 2004 and 2012 she coordinated the PhD programme in English Linguistics at the Department of English Language and Linguistics (High Quality Award from the Ministry of Science and Innovation). Her research focuses on Cognitive Sociolinguistics, and more specifically on language perception and attitudes, semantic variation and research methods. Her publications include Contexts of Use in Cognitive Sociolinguistics, special issue of the Journal of Pragmatics 52 (co-edited with Dirk Geeraerts, 2013), Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Language Variation, Cultural Models, Social Systems (co-edited with René Dirven, 2008) and Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics (co-edited with Dirk Geeraerts and Yves Peirsman, 2010). She is also author of articles and book chapters such as Social and linguistic stereotyping: a cognitive approach to accents (2001), How to do things with allophones: linguistic stereotypes as cognitive reference points in social cognition (2003), Towards a Usage-based cognitive phonology (2006) and Style-shifting and shifting styles: a socio-cognitive approach to lectal variation (2008). Gitte Kristiansen is President of the Spanish Association of Cognitive Linguistics (2016-2020) and has lectured and coordinated theme sessions on Cognitive Sociolinguistics at numerous conferences in Europe and Asia. Since 2004 she is managing editor of the book series Applications of Cognitive Linguistics (Mouton de Gruyter) and since 2015 associate editor of the Journal of Cognitive Semantics (Brill).

Research Interest

Cognitive Sociolinguistics, Perception and Attitudes, Semantics and Research Methods