Carsten Levisen
PhD Student , School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences
Qualifications
BA (Aarhus), MA (Aarhus)
Contact
| Email: | clevisen@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 G13 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3655 (or +61-2-67733655 overseas) |
| Homepage: | http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~clevisen/ |
Research interests
Cultural semantics; ethnopragmatics; cross-cultural communication; discourse analysis; language and cognition; language and identity; semantic change; the NSM approach to linguistic and cultural analysis; Danish semantics and pragmatics.
Current Thesis Topic/Program
PhD thesis topic: "The Danish Universe of Meaning: Conceptual Semantics, Social Cognition and Cultural Values"
Selected Publications
“Folk sociolinguistics and the semantics of identity: An exploration of language concepts in everyday Danish”. Australian Linguistics Society Conference, paper accepted (7-9 July 2010)
“Understanding janteloven ‘the Jante Law’: A Danish keyword and a discourse tool for social change”. Linguistics Colloquium, Dept. of Linguistics, University of New England, 28.05.2010
“Danish is different – a linguistic perspective on ‘happiness’”. Invited talk, Symposium, What's in a feeling? Multidisciplinary and multilingual perspectives, The Language and Cognition Research Centre, University of New England, 19.02.2010
“‘Good fortune’, ‘happiness’, or ‘life quality’? Changes and continuities in the Danish value word lykkelig”. Semantics workshop, Dept. of Linguistics, University of New England, 08.12.2009
“‘It's all about being tryg’. Language socialisation in the Danish community of discourse”. 11th lnternational Pragmatics Conference, 13-17 July 2009, University of Melbourne, 15.07.2009
“Are Danes truly ‘the happiest people on earth’: Semantics meets ‘happiness research’”.
Semantic Workshop, Australian National University, Canberra. 21.04.2009
“Praktisk semantisk analyse: Med hverdagens semantik som guide til kulturforståelse”[Practical semantic analysis: Understanding culture through the semantics of everyday life]. Guest lecture, Dept. of Linguistics, Aarhus University, Denmark. 20.02.2009
“Hygge, tryg, lige: Sprog, kultur og værdier i det danske betydningsunivers” [Hygge, tryg, lige: Language, culture, and values in the Danish universe of meaning]. Guest lecture, Dept. of Linguistics, Aarhus University, Denmark. 13.02.2009
“Current Issues in NSM Semantics” (with C. Goddard, B. Peeters and Z. Ye) NSM Semantic Workshop, Australian National University, Canberra. 24.09.2008
“The Cardamom Law: Language Socialisation in Scandinavia”. Speed paper, Dept. of Linguistics, University of New England, 15.09.2008
“Language and Cognitive Style”. Australian Linguistic Institute, Language and Cultural Values, University of Sydney, 10.07.2008
“A Grammar of Velfærd ‘Social Welfare’: Explorations in Danish Ethnosyntax”. Australian Linguistic Institute, Languages and Cultural Values, Sydney University, 10.07.2008
“The Semantics of Hygge: Identifying a Cultural Key Word in Danish”. Australian Linguistic Institute, Languages and Cultural Values, University of Sydney, 10.07.2008
“The Danish Universe of Meaning”. Australian Linguistic Institute, Language and Cultural Values, University of Sydney, 10.07.2008
“Thinking in Danish: Cognitive Style and the Semantics of Mental Verbs”. Australian Linguistic Society, Annual conference, University of Sydney, 02.07.2008
“The Meaning of Hygge: Explicating a Cultural Key Word in Danish”. NSM Semantic Workshop, Australian National University, Canberra. 23.04.2008
“Linguistic Evaluators and the Values in Society: Exploring the Semantics of Cultural Key Words”. Research seminar, University of New England, 05.12.2007
“Hjertet, maven og leveren – Mental krops-idiomatik i globalt lingvistisk perspektiv”. DANFRAS seminar, University of Copenhagen. 04.10.2005
Other Publications:
Levisen, Carsten (in preparation) “Creating a tryg ‘secure, trusting’ universe: Socialisation in(to) Danish”. In Jock Onn Wong (ed.) Child Raising Practices and Cultural Scripts.
Levisen, Carsten (2007) “Hoppende mave, sur lever og andre frygtelige følelser: om frygtens sproglige udtryk” [Jumping bellies, sour livers and other terrible feelings. On the linguistic expression of ‘fear’]. Mål & Mæle 30 (2) p. 7-11.
Teaching
Courses taught or co-taught:
Meaning in Language (2009)
Meaning in Language (Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics) (2009)
Language and Cultural Values (2008)
English as a World Language (2008)
Danish Language and Culture (2007)
Speech Acts and Language Use (2007)
Introduction to Semantics (2006)