Kim Ebensgaard Jensen
Associate Professor
Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Emil Holms Kanal 6
2300 København S
In June 2024, I'm easier to reach via e-mail than on the phone.
Associate Professor in English Linguistics, Kim's teaching and supervision focus on English Grammar and other aspects of English Linguistics. His research falls under the rubrics of Cognitive Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics and Construction Grammar.
NOTE: For information on PhD programs at our department, please go here: https://phd.humanities.ku.dk/
Primary fields of research
- Cognitive Linguistics
- Construction Grammar
- Cognitive Sociolinguistics
- Cognitive Poetics/Stylistics
- Corpus Linguistics
- Cultural Linguistics
- Digital Humanities
- English Language
- English Grammar
Current research
- Constructional variation across registers and lects
- Language on the Internet
- Language and cultural cognition
- The semantics of political discourse
- Cognitive aspects of literary language in popular music lyrics
- Issues in semantic prosody as a linguistic phenomenon
- Corpus-linguistic methodology
Teaching
Overall topics
- English Grammar
- English Language
- Corpus Linguistics
- Language and Cognition
- Other linguistics-oriented courses
- Digital Humanities
Teaching methods
- Lectures
- Seminars and workshops
- Student input-based teaching
- Portfolios
Blended learning methods:
- Inverted and flipped classroom
- Podcasts
- Pencasts
- Online quizzes and interactive videos
- Online peer feedback
PBL:
- Projects
- In-class research tasks
Some examples of linguistics-oriented MA-theses supervised by Kim over the years:
- The Discourse of Depression: A Study of Otherisation of Otherisation of People With Depression and Self-Identification by People With Depression
- "Dear and ma'am don't go together": A study investigating the relationship between politeness and terms of address
- Laughing about Depression: A mixed-methods study exploring humorous discourses in mental health communities on Instagram
- A Little OCD": Mapping the non-clinical uses of 'OCD' in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) through Cognitive Linguistics
- Into the Dark: Diachronic variation and semantic change of dark in Historical American English
- The Representation of Protesters and Police in U.S News Media: an experimental corpus-assisted discourse study of the framing of social actors in the Black Lives Matter 2020 protests in right-leaning vs. left-leaning online news coverage
- Go Your Own Way or Lay Down and Rot - Cultural Cognition and Radicalisation in the Manosphere Subgroups MGTOW and Incels
- Running and gunning with Lara Croft: Exploring cultural conceptualisations of the video game character Lara Croft
- A Diasystematic Construction Grammar Approach to the Usage-based Emergence of Anglicisms in Danish
- Dungeons & Dragons: A Co-operatively created work of language
- It's just the way the mandem speaks, you get me?" Crossing Prejudice: A sociolinguistic analysis on grime music's impact on adolescents' spoken English and their construction of collective identities in London
- Tweets from the Oval Office - Twitter as a Platform of U.S. Presidential Communication and the Healthcare Framing War
- Queer Online: A mixed-methods ethnography and discourse analysis of two online queer platforms and the people who use them
- "/s for anyone who needs it": The Uses, Functions, and Norms of an Explicit Sarcasm Marker and Tone Indicator on Reddit
- How to kill your friends and get away with it: An analysis of discursive manipulation in Among Us
- "I think this is the right way to teach grammar but...": A study on the relation between teacher cognition and teacher methodology
- Framing Immigration: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Discourse on Arizona Senate Bill 1070
- Chastity, Virginity, and Modesty of a Woman: Cultural Conceptualisations of Honour, Shame and Dignity in Indian English and Pakistani English
- Refusing Behavior among Native Speakers of American, Australian, British, and Canadian English
- 'You can't fight an enemy you don't see': A study of war-related metaphors in COVID-19 discourse on Reddit
- The Idealized Social Value of Standard L1 English accents: Danish-national English students' attitudes towards their professors' accents
- The gag of social identity: Social identity construction in an online community
Selected publications
- E-pub ahead of print
Well, maybe you shouldn’t go around shaving poodles: Collostructional and semantic-prosodic variation in the go (a)round Ving and go (a)round and V constructions
Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard, 7 Mar 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
Women have no honour of their own: Conceptualisations of honor in Indian English and Pakistani English
Mahmood, A. & Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard, 2024, In: International Journal of Language and Culture. 11, 1, p. 95-122Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
Don’t kiasu and rush ok?: A Cultural-Linguistic take on the interaction between loanwords and constructions in World Englishes
Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard, 2021, World Englishes and Cultural Linguistics. Sadeghpour, M. & Sharifian, F. (eds.). Singapore: Springer, p. 101-127 (Cultural Linguistics).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
- Published
Corpus-methodology and discursive conceptualizations of depression
Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard, 12 May 2020, Reimagining Communication : Meaning. Filimowicz, M. & Tzankova, V. (eds.). London / New York: Routledge, p. 64-82 19 p. (Reimagining Communication).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
- Published
Double deixis in second person pronouns as a metaleptic device
Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard, 2019, In: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication. 8, p. 1-19 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
Revisiting Hudson’s (1992) OO = O2 hypothesis: A usage-based variationist approach to the English ditransitive construction
Shibuya, Y. & Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard, 2 Jan 2018, In: Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Journal of Linguistics . 50, 1, p. 73-101 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
A great deal of evidence based on a great many instances: A usage-based comparative corpus study of two English nominal constructions
Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard, 2017, In: Selected Papers from UK-CLA Meetings. 4, p. 249-272 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
Corpora and Cultural Cognition: How corpus-linguistic methodology can contribute to Cultural Linguistics
Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard, May 2017, Advances in Cultural Linguistics. Sharifian, F. (ed.). Singapore: Springer, p. 477-505 29 p. (Cultural Linguistics, Vol. 1).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
- Published
Kan grammatiske konstruktioner have semantisk prosodi?
Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard, 23 Oct 2017, In: Ny forskning i grammatik. 2017, 24, p. 62-85 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
Cross-domain variation in the X itself as a grammatical construction
Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard, 2016, In: Cognitive Linguistic Studies. 3, 2, p. 177–206Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Selected activities
Axiological Urgency in Incel Lingo: A Look At Some Hate Speech Strategies
Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard (Other)
9 Oct 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Snowclones and Proverbs in a Cognitive-Linguistic Perspective
Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard (Other)
16 Nov 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Language use and conceptualizations in blogs on life with depression
Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard (Other)
30 Oct 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Love in the Mushroom Kingdom: A Corpus-Stylistic Look at Light Behavior Words in Romantic Mario-Themed Fan Fiction
Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard (Other)
24 Mar 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
What's grammar?
Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard (Other)
26 Oct 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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