Elena Semino (born 9 September 1964) is an Italian-born British linguist whose research involves stylistics and metaphor theory.
She serves on the editorial board of Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines and Metaphor and the Social World.
[3] Semino has been a co-PI on grants from the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Brazilian research agency CONFAP to study the linguistic representation of urban violence in Brazil using corpus linguistics methods,[4] and a project to funded by ESRC that details how metaphors are used in end-of-life care in the UK (MELC).
[5] On 21 November 2018, Semino said that the academics at the University of Mosul are "working in conditions that we cannot even imagine" after the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University facilitated to support the teaching of linguistics at Mosul, Iraq, providing mentoring for staff and students via video-conferencing, advice for PhD students and free access to an online course.
Cancer Research UK • 2014 Video: Discussion of a character with autistic spectrum disorder of 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.