Psychology

Jörg Zinken

Dr. Jörg Zinken

Senior Lecturer

Psychology

joerg.zinken@port.ac.uk

Profile

Background

I joined the Department of Psychology as a Senior Lecturer in 2003 after completing my Ph.D. in Linguistics in Bielefeld (Germany), Lublin, and Warsaw (Poland).

Teaching

I teach on the BSc Psychology course and on the MSc Psychological Research Methods. I am unit coordinator for:

  • Qualitative Research Methods for Psychologists, BSc Psychology
  • Interpreting Interaction, BSc Psychology
  • Research-Based Learning, BSc Psychology

Research

Research group affiliation:

My research concerns the linguistic mediation of activities, in particular the accomplishment of cooperative embodied activities and how such activities are resourced by the grammatical structures of a language. This research has been funded by the British Academy, the Economic and Social Research Council, and most recently the Arts and Humanities Research Council. For more information on this work, visit:  http://www.ca-across-cultures.org/


Research grants (external funding)

Jörg Zinken’s research has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council, the European Union, the British Academy, and the British Psychological Society.

Advances in Cognitive Linguistics

I am one of the editors, together with Benjamin Bergen and Vyvyan Evans, of the Equinox book series Advances in Cognitive Linguistics. [http://www.equinoxpub.com/books/browse.asp?serid=28].
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Recent Publications

 

More recent publications

 

Publications since 2003

Edited books

READERcoverEvans, V., Bergen, B., & Zinken, J. (Eds., 2007). The Cognitive Linguistics Reader. London: Equinox.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of he emerging field of Cognitive Linguistics by collecting influential papers from the last three decades. A pre-final version of the introduction chapter is available below:

Evans, V., Bergen, B., & Zinken, J. (in press). The Cognitive Linguistics enterprise: An overview. In V. Evans, B. Bergen, & J. Zinken (Eds.). The Cognitive Linguistics Reader. London: Equinox. [CLoverview.pdf]

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the field of Cognitive Linguistics by collecting influential papers from the last three decades.

Musolff, A., & Zinken, J. (Eds, 2009). Metaphor in discourse. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

This collection of papers provides an overview over recent research into the socio-cultural and interactive grounding of discourse metaphors.

Zinken, J. (Ed., in press for 2009). Jerzy Bartminski: Aspects of cognitive ethnolinguistics. London: Equinox.

This book provides an introduction into a well-established cognitive linguistic and ethnographical approach to lexical semantics, which has not previously been accessible to readers of English.

Book chapters and journal articles

Zinken, J. & Ogiermann, E. (2011). How to propose an action as an objective necessity. The case of Polish trzeba x (‘one needs to x’). Research on Language and Social Interaction, 44(3), 263-287.

Zinken, J., Blakemore, C., Michałowska, K., Butler, L., & Skinner, T. (2011). Narrating psychological distress: Associations between cross-clausal integration and mental health difficulties. Applied Psycholinguistics, 32, 263–274

Sinha, C., da Silva Sinha, V., Zinken, J., & Sampaio, W. (2011). When time is not space: The social and linguistic construction of time intervals and temporal event relations in an Amazonian culture. Language and Cognition, 3(1), 137-169.

Zinken, J., Zinken, K., Wilson, J. C., Butler, L., & Skinner, T. (2010). Analysis of syntax and word use to predict successful participation in guided self-help for anxiety and depression. Psychiatry Research.179(2), 181-186. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2010.04.011

Chase, M., Zinken, J., Costall, A., Watts, J., & Priebe, S. (2010). ‘These psychiatrists rate themselves as gods.’ Disengagement and engagement discourses of people living with severe mental illness. Communication & Medicine, 7(1), 43-53.

Zinken, J. (2010). Temporal frames of reference. In P. Chilton & V. Evans (Eds.), Language, cognition, and space. London: Equinox. [Zinken – temporal FoR]

Zinken, J. (2009). The ethnolinguistic school of Lublin and Anglo-American cognitive linguistics. In J. Zinken (Ed.), Jerzy Bartmi?ski: Aspects of cognitive ethnolinguistics. London: Equinox.

Zinken, J. & Musolff, A. (2009). A discourse-centred perspective on metaphorical meaning and understanding. In A. Musolff & J. Zinken (Eds.), Metaphor in discourse (pp. 1-8). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Zinken, J. (2008). The metaphor of 'linguistic relativity'. History & Philosophy of Psychology, 10(2), 1-10.

Zinken, J. (2008). Linguistic pictures of the world or language in the world? Metaphors and methods in ethnolinguistic research. Etnolingwistyka, 20, 51-62.

Zinken, J., Knoll, M., & Panksepp, J. (2007). Universals and diversity in the vocal expression of emotions. In K. Izdebski (Ed.), Emotions of the human voice (pp. 185-202). San Diego: Plural Publishing. [Zinken & Knoll.pdf]

Evans, V., & Zinken, J. (in press). Figurative language in a cognitive theory of meaning construction. In R. Chrisley and C. Makris (Eds.), Art, Body, Embodiment. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press. [Evans_Zinken.pdf]

Zinken, J, Hellsten, I & Nerlich, B. (2008). Discourse metaphors. In R. Dirven, R. Frank, T. Ziemke & J. Zlatev (eds.), Body, Language, and Mind. Vol. 2: Sociocultural Situatedness (pp. 363-385).  Berlin: Mouton. [Zinken BLM.pdf]

Zinken, J. (2007). Discourse metaphors: the link between figurative language and habitual analogies. Cognitive Linguistics, 18(3), 445-466. (abstract

Evans, V., Bergen, B., & Zinken, J. (2007). The Cognitive Linguistics enterprise: An overview. In V. Evans, B. Bergen, & J. Zinken (Eds.). The Cognitive Linguistics Reader (pp. 2-36). London: Equinox.

Zinken, J., Sampaio, W., Da Silva Sinha, V., & Sinha, C. (2005). Space, motion and time in Amondawa. Field manual 2005-06. 78pp. [SEDSU FM.pdf]

Zinken, J. (2004). Metaphor practices in the German Wende discourse. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 25 (5-6), 424-436. (abstract)

Zinken, J. (2004). Metaphors, stereotypes, and the linguistic picture of the world: Impulses from the Ethnolinguistic School of Lublin. metaphorik.de, 7, 115-136. [http://www.metaphorik.de/07/zinken.pdf]

Döring, M. & Zinken, J. (2004). The cultural crafting of Embryonic Stem Cells: The metaphorical schematisation of stem cell research in the Polish and French press. metaphorik.de, 8, 6-33. [http://www.metaphorik.de/08/doeringzinken.pdf]

Zinken, J. (2003). Ideological imagination: Intertextual and correlational metaphors in political discourse. Discourse & Society, 14 (4), 507-523. (abstract)