prof. dr. Alan Cienki

Full Professor, Faculty of 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

Part-time secondment [currently on hold]:
Multimodal Communication and Cognition Lab ("Polimod"),
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: English Language and Communication Studies track in the Communication and Information Studies major
https://vu.nl/en/education/bachelor/communication-and-information-studies/track/english-language-and-communication-studies/curriculum

MA: Multimodal Communication track within Communication and Information Studies https://vu.nl/en/education/master/multimodal-communication

Grants

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

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