Peer-Reviewed Papers

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• Rey Velasco E, Demjén Z, Skinner TC (2024) Impact Diabetes B2B Collaboration Group. Digital empathy in behaviour change interventions: A survey study on health coach responses to patient cues. Digital Health. 10, 1-18. Open Access PDF

• Macqueen, S., Collins, L., Brookes, G., Demjén, Z., Semino, E., & Slade, D. (2024). Laughter in hospital emergency departments. Discourse Studies, Online First

• Hardaker, C. Deignan, A., Semino, E., Coltman-Patel, T., Dance, W., Demjén, Z., Sanderson, C., and Gatherer, D. (2023) The Victorian Anti-Vaccination Discourse Corpus (VicVaDis): construction and exploration. DSH: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. Online First

• Semino, E., Coltman-Patel, T., Dance, W., Deignan, A. Demjén, Z., Hardaker, C., and Mackey, A. (2023) Narratives, information and manifestations of resistance to persuasion in online discussions of HPV vaccination. Health Communication. Online First, Open Access PDF

• Semino, E., Coltman-Patel, T., Dance, W., Demjén, Z., and Hardaker, C., (2023) Pro-vaccination personal narratives in response to online hesitancy about the HPV vaccine: The challenge of tellability. Discourse & Society, 25, Online First, Open Access PDF. 

• Coltman-Patel, T., Dance, W., Demjén, Z., Gatherer, D., Hardaker, C., and Semino, E. (2022) 'Am I being unreasonable to vaccinate my kids against my ex’s wishes?’ – A corpus linguistic exploration of conflict in vaccination discussions on Mumsnet Talk’s AIBU forum. Discourse, Context, and Media, 48, 100624. Open Access PDF

• Collins, L., Brezina, V., Demjén, Z., Semino, E., and Woods, A. (2022) Corpus linguistics and clinical psychology: Investigating personification in first-person accounts of voice-hearing. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Online First. Open Access PDF

• Shiel, L., Demjén, Z., Bell, V. (2022) Illusory social agents within and beyond voices: A computational linguistics analysis of the experience of psychosis. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 61(2): 349-363 Open Access PDF

• Isaacs, T., Vaughan, A., Shiely, F., Finucane, E., Gillies, K., Noor, N., Sydes, M., Durand, M-A., Khunti, K., Demjén, Z., Burnett, E., Sood, H., Rooshenas, L., Biggs, K., Treweek, S. (2021) Systematic review of the prevalence and assessment of language-related eligibility criteria in patient recruitment to type 2 diabetes and depression trials. PROSPERO Protocol CRD42021267905. Available from: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42021267905 

• LaPlante A, Yen RW, Isaacs T, Crocker J, Demjén Z, Schubbe D, Kennedy AM, Engel J, O'Brien N, Durand M-A (2021) Enrollment, retention, and effective strategies for including disadvantaged populations in controlled trials: A systematic review protocol. Systematic Reviews, 10, 233  Open Access PDF

• Semino E., Demjén Z., and Collins L. (2020) Person-ness of voices in lived experience accounts of psychosis: combining literary linguistics and clinical psychology. BMJ Medical Humanities, (47)3  Online First

• Collins, L., Semino, E., Demjén, Z., Hardie, A., Moseley, P., Woods, A., and Alderson-Day, B. (2020) A linguistic approach to the psychosis continuum: (dis)similarities and (dis)continuities in how clinical and non-clinical voice-hearers talk about their voices. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. Open Access PDF

• Isaacs, T., Murdoch, J., Demjén, Z. and Stevenson, F. (2020) Examining the language demands of ethical materials in patient recruitment to cancer trials using tools from corpus and computational linguistics. Health: an interdisciplinary journal for the social study of health, illness and medicine. Open Access PDF

• Demjén, Z., Marszalek, A., Semino, E., and Varese, F. (2019) Metaphor framing and distress in lived-experience accounts of voice-hearing. Psychosis. 11(1), 16-27  Open Access PDF

• Hendricks, R.K., Demjén, Z., Semino, E., and Boroditsky. L. (2018) Emotional implications of metaphor: Consequences of metaphor framing for mindset about cancer. Metaphor & Symbol, 33:4, 267-279. Open Access PDF

• Semino, E., Demjén, Z., and Demmen, J. (2018) An integrated approach to metaphor and framing in cognition, discourse and practice, with an application to metaphors for cancer. Applied Linguistics. 39(5), 625–645 Open Access PDF

• Demjén, Z. (2018) Complexity theory and conversational humour: Tracing the birth and decline of a running joke in an online cancer support community. Journal of Pragmatics. 133, 93–104. Open Access PDF

• Semino, E., Demjén, Z., Demmen, J., Koller, V., Payne, S., Hardie, A., and Rayson, P.  (2017) The online use of ‘Violence’ and ‘Journey’ metaphors by cancer patients, as compared with health professionals: a mixed methods study. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care. 7, 60-66. Open Access PDF​

• Demjén, Z. (2016) Laughing at Cancer: Humour, empowerment, solidarity and coping online. Journal of Pragmatics. 101, 18-30. Open Access PDF

• Demjén, Z. and Semino, E. and Koller, V. (2016) Metaphors for ‘good’ and ‘bad’ deaths: A health professional view. Metaphor and the Social World. 6(1), 1-19. Open Access PDF.

• Demmen, J., Semino, E., Demjén, Z., Koller, V., Hardie, A., Rayson, P., and Payne, S. (2015) A computer-assisted study of the use of Violence metaphors for cancer and end of life by patients, family carers and health professionals. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 20(2), 205-231 Open Access PDF

• Demjén, Z. and Semino, E. (2015) Henry’s voices: The representation of auditory verbal hallucinations in an autobiographical narrative. BMJ Medical Humanities. 41(1), pp.57-62.

• Demjén, Z. (2014) "Drowning in negativism, self-hate, doubt, madness": Linguistic Insights into Sylvia Plath’s Experience of Depression. Communication & Medicine. 11(1), pp.41-54.

• Semino, E., Demjén, Z., and Koller, V. (2014) ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ deaths: Narratives and professional identities in interviews with hospice managers. Discourse Studies. 16(5), pp.667–685 Open Access PDF

• Demjén, Z. (2011) Motion and Conflicted Self Metaphors in the Sylvia Plath’s Smith Journal. Metaphor and the Social World. 1(1), pp.7-25. PDF

• Demjén, Z. (2011) The role of second person narration in representing mental states in Sylvia Plath’s Smith Journal. Journal of Literary Semantics. 40(1), pp.1-21. PDF

 

Books 

• Demjén, Z., Atkins, S., Semino, E. (2023) Researching Language and Health: a student guide. Routledge

• Semino, E., Demjén, Z. Hardie, A., Payne, S., and Rayson, P. (2018) Metaphor, Cancer, and the End of Life: A corpus-based study. New York: Routledge

• Demjén, Z. (2015) Sylvia Plath and the Language of Affective States: Written Discourse and the Experience of Depression. London: Bloomsbury. See a preview here.

 

Edited Books

• Demjén, Z. (ed) (2020) Applying Linguistics in Illness and Healthcare Contexts. London: Bloomsbury - 35% discount with the code: GLR TW4

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• ​Semino, E. and Demjén, Z. (eds.)  (2017) The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language. Abingdon: Routledge

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• Demjén, Z. and Seargeant, P. (2016) Creativity in Language: from Everyday Style to Verbal Art. Open University. Sample chapter here.

 

Book Chapters

• Semino, E., Collins, L. and Demjén, Z. (2022) Silences in first-person accounts of voice-hearing: A linguistic approach. In A. Woods, B. Alderson-Day and C. Fernyhough (eds) Voices in Psychosis Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Oxford University Press Open Access PDF

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• Demjén, Z. and Semino, E. (2021) Stylistics: mind style in an autobiographical account of schizophrenia. In G. Brookes and D. Hunt (eds) Analysing Health Communication: Discourse Approaches. Palgrave. 

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• Demjén, Z. and Semino, E. (2020) Communicating Nuanced Results in Language Consultancy: The Case of Cancer and the Violence Metaphor. In Mullany, L. (ed.) Professional Communication: Consultancy, Advocacy, Activism. Palgrave. p191-210

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• Demjén, Z. (2020) Introduction. In Demjén, Z. (ed.) Applying Linguistics in Illness and Healthcare Contexts. London: Bloomsbury.

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• Demjén, Z., Marszalek, A., Semino, E., and Varese, F. (2020) “One gives bad compliments about me, and the other one is telling me to do things” – Power, (Im)Politeness and Agency in Lived-experience Accounts of Voice-hearing. In Demjén, Z. (ed.) Applying Linguistics in Illness and Healthcare Contexts. London: Bloomsbury

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• Demjén, Z. (2018) Metaphor Studies and English. In Hewings, A., Sergeant, P. and Pihlaja, S. (eds) The Routledge Handbook of English Language Studies. Abingdon: Routledge. Chapter 28. 

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• Semino, E.  and Demjén, Z. (2017) The Cancer Card: metaphor and humour in online interactions about the experience of cancer. In Hampe, B. (ed) Metaphor: Embodied Cognition and Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press​, pp181-199.

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• Demjén, Z. and Hardaker, C. (2017) Metaphor, impoliteness, and offence in online communication. In Semino, E. and Demjén, Z. (eds.)  The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language.  Abingdon: Routledge

 

• Demjén, Z. and Semino, E. (2017) Introduction: Metaphor and Language. In Semino, E. and Demjén, Z. (eds.)  The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language. pp1-10. Abingdon: Routledge

 

• Demjén, Z. and Semino, E. (2017) Using Metaphor in Healthcare: Physical Health. In Semino, E. and Demjén, Z. (eds.)  The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language. pp.385-399. Abingdon: Routledge

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• Demjén, Z. (2016) What is Linguistic Creativity? In Demjén, Z. and Seargeant, P.  Creativity in Language: from Everyday Style to Verbal Art. Open University

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• Demjén, Z. (2016) Narratives at Work. In Maybin, J. Narrative, Language and Creativity: contemporary approaches. Open University

 

​Blogs, Reviews and Short Pieces

• Demjén, Z. (2019) Review of Locher, Miriam A. (2017) ‘Reflective Writing in Medical Practice: A Linguistic Perspective’, Bristol: Multilingual Matters. Russian Journal of Linguistics, 23 (4), 1115—1121. 

• March 2018 Rachel Kelly Blog: Language and the #healingwords workshop

• April 2017 IOE London blog: Can we joke about cancer?

• February 2016 OpenLearn: "I was so depressed yesterday..!" - or were you?

• December 2015 European Association for Palliative Care Blog: Laughing at Cancer: Humorous metaphors online

• September 2015 Black Rainbow blog on Plath, language, depression and experts by experience

• August 2015 OpenLearn: Sylvia Plath and the linguistics of depression

• March 2015 OpenLearn: "Battling" cancer or "going through it"? It's not that simple

• January 2015 SfEP blog: Why language matters when discussing terminal illness and death

• June 2014 OpenLearn: What's in a name?

• April 2014 Verbal Identity guest blog: Corpus linguistics: how to justify your hunches when faced with a CEO

• Septmeber 2013 OpenLearn: Can corpus linguistics help with branding?

• May 2013 European Association for Palliative Care Blog: ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ deaths in interviews with hospice managers. with Elena Semino and Veronika Koller

• November 2012 European Association for Palliative Care Blog: Metaphor in End of Life Care - An introduction to the project

• October 2011 Book Review: Windows to the Mind: Metaphor, Metonymy and Conceptual Blending by Sandra Handl and Hans-Jörg Schmid (Eds.)Berlin, Germany/New York, Ny: Walter de Gruyter, 2011. 314 pages, $150.00 (hardcover), ISBN 9783110238181.

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