Dr. Cristina Soriano
Education and Training
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Institution : University of Geneva
Department : Swiss Center for Affective Sciences (CISA)
Research field : emotion language, semantics, lexicon, metaphor, culture, emotion psychology, psycholinguistics
General Information
I obtained my PhD in Linguistics from the University of Murcia (Spain) and specialized in cognitive linguistics at UC Berkeley and Hamburg University. After teaching linguistics and translation, I joined the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, where I work as senior researcher on language and emotion and as head of the Education and Training program.
I conduct interdisciplinary research on the way languages represent affective experience, both literally and through metaphor. I study the meaning of emotion terms across languages and cultures, being the executive officer of the GRID project. I also study metaphor in emotion concepts, and the role of affect in (metaphor) creativity and in the representation of various domains of experience such as color or time. Finally, I am interested in the psycholinguistic investigation of conceptual metaphors.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9274-8574
Personal site: www.cristina-soriano.com
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2010 - present
- Senior researcher, Focus Group "Language and Culture", Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva.
- Head of the Education and Training (E&T) program. Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva.
2007 - 2010
- Junior researcher, NCCR Affective Sciences, University of Geneva (Switzerland)
2005-2007
- Assistant lecturer, English Philology Department, University of Murcia (Spain)
2000-2005
- PhD Linguistics (European doctorate), University of Murcia (Spain)
- Visiting scholar, University of California - Berkeley (USA)
- Visiting scholar, University of Hamburg (Germany)
1999-2001
- English teacher, Public School Herma (Murcia, Spain)
- Teaching diploma, University of Murcia (Spain)
1994-1999
- MA English Philology, University of Murcia (Spain)
Current Research
For details and downloads concerning my research projects, publications, talks, and knowledge transfer activities, please visit my personal site. A selection of publications is also listed below.