Dr. M.D. Aloni
Languages, Humanities, Formal semantics and pragmatics, philosophy of language, logic
Languages
Cognitive Linguistics (mental spaces and conceptual blending), Discourse Studies, Legal Argumentation, Fictive Interaction (the intersection of Language, Interaction, and Cognition), Language pathology (autism speech)
I am mostly interested in the interrelation between language, interaction and cognition. If human babies learn to interact long before they learn to speak, and if face-to-face conversation is the most common form of communication, then: how is the structure of interaction reflected in language structure and use? That is, what forms does the basic interactional pattern of turn-taking take in grammar and discourse (e.g. rhetorical questions or embedded non-genuine quotations like "a what's in it for me? attitude)? And, what functions do conversational structures have? In addition, I'm interested in the communicative effectiveness of interactional structures, particular in high-stakes situations such as criminal court trials or the speech of individuals with Autism spectrum Disorder.
Vidi grant (Innovation Scheme), Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), June 2010 – June 2015
Post-doctoral VENI grant (Innovation Scheme), NWO, January 2005 – December 2008
Post-doctoral Travel grant, NWO, November – December 2004
Post-doctoral Talent grant, NWO, November 2003 – October 2004
Van Coeverden Adriani Stichting award, November 2003 – January 2004
Letteren fellowship, VU University Amsterdam, September – December 2002
Fulbright graduate student fellowship, September 2000 – June 2002
Erasmus fellowship, European Union, September 1993 – June 1995
Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish
Pascual, E. & S. Sandler (eds.). 2016. The Conversation Frame: Forms and Functions of Fictive Interaction. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Pascual, E. 2014. Fictive Interaction: The Conversation Frame in Thought, Language, and Discourse. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Jarque, M.J. & E. Pascual. 2021 (by invitation). From gesture- and sign-in-interaction to grammar: Fictive questions for relative clauses in signed languages. Languages and Modalities 1: 81-93.
Hu, Y., Q. Lv, E. Pascual, J. Liang & F. Huettig (by invitation). 2021. Syntactic priming in illiterate and literate elder Chinese adults. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science 5(2): 267-286.
Fonseca, P., E. Pascual & T. Oakley. 2020. “Hi, Mr. President!”: Fictive interaction blends as a unifying rhetorical strategy in satire. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18(1): 183-216.
Sandler, S. & E. Pascual. 2019. In the beginning there was conversation: Fictive speech in the Hebrew Bible. Pragmatics 29(2): 250-276.
Pascual, E. & E. Królak. 2018. The ‘listen to characters thinking’ novel: Fictive interaction as narrative strategy in literary bestsellers and their Spanish and Polish translations. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 16(2): 399-430.
Pascual, E., A. Dornelas, & T. Oakley. 2017. When ‘Goal!” means ‘soccer’: Verbatim fictive speech as communicative strategy by children with autism and two control groups. Pragmatics & Cognition 24(3): 315-345).
Oakley, T. & E. Pascual. 2017. Conceptual blending theory. In B. Dancygier (ed.). Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. CUP, 423-448.
Pascual, E. & T. Oakley. 2017. Fictive interaction. In B. Dancygier (ed.). Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. CUP, 347-360.
"Fictive interaction as linguistic construction and communicative strategy". Hundred Talents Program for humanities and social sciences, Zhejiang University, 2015 – 2021
"The Conversation Frame: Linguistic Forms and Communicative Functions in Discourse" (276.70.019), NWO (Vidi). University of Groningen, Principal Investigator, 2010 – 2015
"Speech representation as re-contextualization: A comparative study of reported and constructed questions in Dutch and American criminal trials" (275-70-012), NWO (Veni, Innovation Scheme). VU University Amsterdam, Principal Investigator, 2005 – 2008
"An ethnographic study of interaction and language use in criminal trials before the Flemish jury" (R 33-302), Travel grant, NWO. University of Ghent, Principal Investigator, 2004
"A comparative study of fictive interaction clauses in Dutch and English" (S 20-3), Talent grant, NWO. University of Ghent and UC San Diego, Principal Investigator, 2003 – 2004
"An ethnographic study of discourse processes in court" (020033S), Fulbright, UC San Diego, Principal Investigator, 2000 – 2002
"Comparative research on waste management in the United Kingdom and Spain" (ENV4.CT96-0239), European Union. PI: prof. dr. E. Laraña, Complutense University of Madrid, Junior researcher, 1997 – 1999
Editorial Service
Editorial board member of the international peer-reviewed Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, since November 2020
Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Language and Culture, since June 2020
Editorial board member of the international SSCI and A&HCI indexed journal Journal of Linguistics, since January 2019
Editorial board member of the book series Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, published by John Benjamins, since December 2019
Founding co-editor-in-chief of the international peer-review journal Language Under Discussion (accredited as quality open access journal by OASPA), since July 2013
Editorial board member of the international peer-review journal Veredas: Journal of Linguistic Studies, since May 2012
Elected President (since 2018) and Vice-President (2016 – 2018) of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS)
International Scientific Panel member of the European Network for Intercultural Education Activities (ENIEDA), since January 2018
Expert committee member of the Zhejiang Province Foreign Languages Association, since October 2016
Permanent member of the scientific committee of the Spanish Association of Cognitive Linguistics (AELCO), since September 2013
Founding board member of the European Society for Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogue (ESTIDIA), since June 2012
Board member of the Belgium and Netherlands Cognitive Linguistics Association (BeNeCLA), 2012 – 2014
Elected member of the International Organizing Committee of the Language, Culture, and Mind conference series (LCM), since June 2010
Founding board member and secretary of the Belgium and Netherlands Cognitive Linguistics Association (BeNeCLA), 2008 – 2010
Reviewer of 2020 LSHK Outstanding Thesis Award of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK), November 2020
Ad hoc reviewer of research proposals for: the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO, Veni and Vidi), since 2014; the Flanders Research Foundation (FWO), since 2016; the Research Council KU Leuven (Belgium); and the Research Council KU Leuven (Belgium), since 2014; and the National Science Centre (Poland), since 2019
Permanent reviewer of research proposals for the European Commission (expert number: EX2013D141234), since September 2013
Jury member of the 2013 Dissertation Award of the Dutch Linguistics Society (AVT) and the Dutch Society for Applied Linguistics (Anéla), 2013 – 2014
Permanent reviewer of research proposals for Catalonia’s ‘Agency for Management of University and Research Grants’ (AGAUR), since 2011
"Staatsexamens NT2", Dutch as second language for studying or working at academic university or university of applied sciences (HBO), July 2013
"Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs" [Basic Teaching Qualification], required for university lecturing, May 2013
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