Elena Semino, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Elena Semino

British linguist

Date of Birth: 09-Sep-1964

Place of Birth: Genoa, Liguria, Italy

Profession: linguist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Elena Semino (born 9 September 1964) is an Italian-born British linguist whose research involves stylistics and metaphor theory.
Focusing on figurative language in a range of poetic and prose works, most recently she has worked on topics from the domains of medical humanities and health communication.
Her projects use corpus linguistic methods as well as qualitative analysis. She has been the Head of Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University since 2013.