Kim Ebensgaard Jensen is an Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen. His areas of specialization include grammar, cognition, and corpus linguistics. He holds an MA (cand.mag.) in English from the University of Southern Denmark and also an EMA degree in Linguistics from the University of Southern Denmark and the University of Manchester. In 2007, he was awarded a PhD from the University of Southern Denmark with a dissertation on the English progressive verbal construction.
He has contributed research within the fields of cognitive linguistics, construction grammar, cultural linguistics, cognitive sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics, and has (co-)authored publications on grammatical constructions, their structures, patterns of use, and meanings—including semantic, pragmatic, and social meanings. Building on his interest in the interface between the cognitive and the social, he also works with the often complex interplay between language (including grammar), worldview, cognition, and culture, with a particular interest in how linguistic communication in online contexts reflects and shapes worldviews. In this connection, he has (co-)authored publications on, among other topics:
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incel language
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QAnon language
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discourses on depression in blog posts
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concepts of honor and gender in Pakistani English
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hate speech and cultural Bildung in relation to linguistic clichés
He is a member of the research groups Norm, Variation, Language Change and the Dark Arts Research Group, and he leads the research group Digital Cultures and Languages, all of which are based at the University of Copenhagen.
