Dr. Liudmila Arcimavičienė
Lecturer
Research areas
English language
Additional info
liudmila.arcimaviciene@flf.vu.lt
Graduated Cum Laude in English Linguistics at the Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University, in 2005. In 2010 defended her doctoral thesis entitled ‘Morality models through metaphors in Public Discourse: a cross-linguistic analysis’. Held internships in Wroclaw, Skopje and Cyprus Universities. Her research interests lie in cognitive linguistics, critical discourse analysis, and metaphor analysis of populism, ideologies, conflicts and leadership styles.
Courses taught
English language
Research interests
Cognitive linguistics and political discourse analysis
Metaphor and ideology
Populist metaphor use
Conflict scenarios in diplomacy and international politics
Content analysis of leadership styles
Gender metaphor in media discourse
Publications
Arcimavičienė, L. (2020). Metaphor, identity and conflict in political discourse. In Language of Conflict: Discourses of the Ukrainian Crisis (pp. 45-65). Bloomsbury Academic Publishing: London and New York. DOI: 10.5040/9781350098633.
Arcimavičienė, L. (2020). Values and targeting metaphors combined with populist sentiment in the foreign policy narratives of Donald Trump, Hassan Rouhani and Sergey Lavrov. In Metaphor in political conflict: populism and discourse (pp. 143-175). Ediciones Universidad de Navarra. EUNSA. ISBN: 97884-313-3467-3.
Arcimavičienė, L. (2020). The polarity of collective identity in diplomatic discourse: legitimacy by metaphor. In Euro-American Relations in the Age of Globalization: Risks and Opportunities (pp. 73-97). University of Turin. ISBN: 9788875901653.
Arcimavičienė, L. Kriaučiūniėne, R. (2020). Metaphor and Othering in Media Discourse: A Case of Youth Climate Change Protests (pp. 152-168). In Educational, Linguistic and Media Discourses. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN: 1-5275-5550-X.
Arcimavičienė, L. 2019. Gender metaphor and migration in media representations. In Migration and Media Discourses about identities in crisis, pp. 137-159. John Benjamins Publishing: Amsterdam. ISBN ISBN 9789027202475
Arcimavičienė, L. 2019. Self and Other Metaphors as Facilitating Features in Populist Style of Diplomatic Discourse: A Case Study of Obama and Putin's Speeches. In Populist Discourse: International Perspectives, pp. 89-125. Palgrave Macmillan: Switzerland. ISBN 978-3-319-97387-6. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97388-3
