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Elise Stickles is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Arts. She specializes in cognitive linguistics with particular focus on the relationship between language, spatial cognition, and metaphor. Her research examines how physical interaction with space influences language structure and meaning through multimodal constructions that integrate both verbal and gestural elements.
Dr. Stickles received her BA from Vassar College and completed both her MA and PhD at the University of California, Berkeley.
Her research lies at the intersection of conceptual metaphor theory and embodied construction grammar, focusing specifically on multimodal metaphoric constructions that include both linguistic and gestural content. She investigates how spatial perception shapes language and how language reflects cognitive processing of spatial relationships, employing diverse methodologies including experimental studies, computational analysis, and corpus-based approaches.
Her publication record demonstrates consistent focus on metaphor analysis and spatial language processing, with particular emphasis on developing computational approaches to metaphor identification through the MetaNet project. Recent publications increasingly incorporate multimodal elements, examining how gestural content interacts with linguistic structures in metaphorical expression.
Major Research Projects:
- MetaNet: A 'big data' approach to identifying and analyzing metaphoric language in large text corpora
- Multimodal Embodied Construction Grammar: A theoretical framework incorporating gestural and non-verbal content into linguistic representation
