I joined the UBC Department of English Language and Literatures as an Assistant Professor in the fall of 2019. I am a cognitive semanticist, meaning that I study the relationship between linguistic meaning and form from a cognitive-functional perspective. My research lies at the intersection of conceptual metaphor theory and embodied construction grammar approaches to syntax and lexical semantics. I focus particularly on multimodal metaphoric constructions, comprising both linguistic and gestural content. Most of my research is on American English but I also study the metaphor and argument structure of American Sign Language.<\/p>\n
I received my PhD in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2016 and taught at Stanford University from 2016-2019 as a postdoctoral fellow.<\/p>\n
email: elise.stickles@ubc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n To meet with me outside of scheduled office hours, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n office: 414 Buchanan Tower<\/p>\n address:
\nDepartment of English Language and Literatures
\nVancouver Campus
\n397 – 1873 East Mall
\nUnceded Musqueam Territory
\nVancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
\nCanada<\/p>\n