Carsten Levisen

Carsten Levisen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication and Humanities, Roskilde University. His research spans sociocultural linguistics, linguistic anthropology, and interdisciplinary studies in semantics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis.

Key research areas include:

• Cultural Semantics
• Intercultural Pragmatics
• Postcolonial & Decolonial Linguistics
• Construction Grammar
• Green Semantics & Environmental Linguistics
• Visual & Color Semantics

His recent publications focus on blue pragmatics, danger discourse, and postcolonial metalanguage. He collaborates internationally through the Natural Semantic Metalanguage research community and holds editorial roles in journals like Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies in Language. He has received fellowships such as the ANU Hansen Friendship Scholar (2025) and Senior Research Fellow at Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (2019-2020).