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SCR Speaker Feb 10 Celeste Moreno Palmero

February 10, 2016

Our lunch speaker on Wednesday is Celeste Moreno Palmero. 

Metaphor, metonym, and manipulation: what language abuse can do to your brain

Celeste Moreno Palmero holds a PhD in Cognitive Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis. Her research focuses on the intersection between Critical Discourse Analysis and Conceptualization. Her dissertation analyzes media representation of the Atomic Age through metaphor and metonym. For the last eight years, she has worked at Harvard University, first as a Teaching Assistant and later as a...

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