prof. dr. Alan Cienki

Full Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Language

Full Professor, Network Institute

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Professor of Language Use & Cognition and English Linguistics
(Hoogleraar Taalgebruik & Cognitie en Engelse Taalkunde)

Personnel Manager, English Academic Language Programme

President (2025–27), International Society for Gesture Studies

Founder of the
Multimodal Communication and Cognition Lab ("Polimod")
at the Centre for Socio-Cognitive Discourse Studies ("SCoDis"),
Moscow State Linguistic University, Russian Federation

Research

Cognitive linguistics; semantics and conceptualization; gesture studies; multimodal communication; grammar of spoken language; metaphor studies; comparative/contrastive linguistics

Teaching

BA: Coordinator of the English Language and Communication Studies track in the Communication and Information Studies major

MA: Founder and coordinator of the Multimodal Communication track within Communication and Information Studies

Grants

Selection:
Netherlands Science Foundation/NWO (2012-16, 2025-present)
PhD candidates via China Scholarship Council (2012-2024)
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (2009-10, 2024)
Russian Science Foundation (2014-16, 2017-18, 2019-21)
Cinepoetics, FU Berlin (2016)
German Academic Exchange Service/DAAD (2006)

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