Publications
Monograph:
Handl, Sandra (2011), The conventionality of figurative language. A usage-based study (Language in Performance 46), Tübingen: Narr.
Edited volume:
Handl, Sandra and Hans-Jörg Schmid, eds. (2011), Windows to the mind. Metaphor, metonymy and conceptual blending (Cognitive Linguistics Research 48), Berlin – New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Articles:
Handl, Sandra (submitted), “Selling and buying, killing and wounding: (Un)conventional metaphors from two different semantic fields”, Elisabetta Gola and Francesca Ervas, eds., Selected proceedings of the Conference on Metaphor and Communication, Cagliari, May 12 – 14, 2011, Amsterdam – Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Handl, Sandra (forthcoming), “Meaning is use”, in Bernd Kortmann and Johannes Kabatek, eds., Theorien und Methoden der Sprachwissenschaft/Theories and methods in linguistics [Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK)], Berlin – New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Handl, Sandra and Hans-Jörg Schmid (2011), “Introduction”, in Sandra Handl and Hans-Jörg Schmid, eds., Windows to the mind. Metaphor, metonymy and conceptual blending (Cognitive Linguistics Research 48), Berlin – New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1-20.
Handl, Sandra (2011), “Salience and the conventionality of metonymies”, in Sandra Handl and Hans-Jörg Schmid, eds., Windows to the mind. Metaphor, metonymy and conceptual blending (Cognitive Linguistics Research 48), Berlin – New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 85-112.
Conference presentations
“The conventionality of metonymies: Salience, aptness, and emergence”, Second International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, Munich, October 5 – 7, 2006.
“The entrenchment of metonymic mappings: Frequency and conceptual structure”, Third International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, Leipzig, September 25 – 27, 2008.
“The conventionality of metonymies: Corpus evidence and conceptual prerequisites”, 5th ICCLS Symposium on “Figurative language – creativity, entrenchment, conventionality”, Munich, January 29 – 30, 2009.
“Selling and buying, killing and dying: (Un)conventional metaphors from two different semantic fields”, Metaphor and Communication. International Conference, Cagliari, May 12 – 14, 2011.
“Underspecified metonymic meanings: A matter of processing or perception?”, The Stockholm 2011 Metaphor Festival, Stockholm, September 8 – 10, 2011.
Organization of conferences, symposia, etc.
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Winter semester 09/10 – summer semester 10 |
Co-organizer/Co-chair of the Linguistic Colloquium (Linguistisches Kolloquium (LK); http://www.lk.fak13.uni-muenchen.de/index.html) at Munich University (lecture series with German and international guest speakers) |
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Winter semester 08/09 |
Co-organizer of the 5th ICCLS Symposium on “Figurative language – creativity, entrenchment, conventionality”, Munich, January 29 – 30, 2009 |
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2006 |
Co-organizer of the theme section on “Conceptual blending”, Second International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, Munich, October 5 – 7, 2006 |
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2006 |
Member of the Organizing Committee of the Second International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, Munich, October 5 – 7, 2006 |
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Winter semester 05/06 – winter semester 09/10 |
Organization of the Modern English Linguistics Colloquium at the Department of English and American Studies, Munich University |
Other research-related activities
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2009 – 2011 |
Coordinator of EnerG (English Neologisms Research Group; http://energ.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/) at the Chair of Modern English Linguistics, Munich University (in co-operation with the Oxford English Dictionary) |
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2001 – 2003 |
Member of the research group developing the Bayreuth UCL Morphology Corpus/BUMC; later renamed as Munich UCL Morphology Corpus/MUMC (in co-operation with the Survey of English Usage, University College, London) |