Paul Sambre

I am an assistant professor of discourse studies, Italian linguistics and marketing communication at the Department of Applied Linguistics of Lessius Antwerp and an affiliate researcher at the Department of Linguistics of the KU Leuven. After studies of Romance Philology in Leuven and the agrégation for French and Italian (1991), I studied Peircean semiotics and philosophy of language in Bologna and obtained the Leuven Certificate in Italian Studies (1992), I obtained a DEA in linguistics at Lyon 2 (1993) with a scholarship of the French government, which made me further explore the semantics/pragmatics interface. I worked as a teacher of French and Italian, and, after a short stay in the training and communications industry, moved to the University of Antwerp as an assistant of business French. My 2005 PhD in cognitive linguistics from the KU Leuven offered a mixed philosophical, lexical and discursive study of the emergence and conceptualization of definitions in natural language: I tried to understand how everyday technological concepts like the Internet discursively get into our minds and language. I find cognitive linguistics fascinating since it’s a theory where language and cognition converge keeping track both of abstract philosophical thought and concrete textual and corpus materials.

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