Dr. Barbara Dancygier.
Congratulations to Dr. Barbara Dancygier, who has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada, as a new Fellow in the Academy of Arts and Humanities. Dr. Dancygier is a professor in the Department of English Language & Literatures and Distinguished University Scholar.
Dr. Dancygier’s primary research interests lie in two related disciplines: cognitive linguistics and cognitive poetics. She focuses on uncovering meaning-emergence processes in grammatical systems, but also discourse types, including literary language. Her current work focuses on the application of cognitive theories to digital and creative multimodal artifacts. She is also completing a project on the role of emotional attitudes in the form and impact of contemporary media, especially so-called post-truth phenomena.
Dancygier’s work is firmly rooted in research on language but has influenced many scholars and a range of disciplines. The breadth of applications of the concepts she has developed reaches across many disciplines and topics, from literary meaning, through internet campaigns, all the way to theatre and film.
“I am honoured to have been invited to the Royal Society of Canada, and I am looking forward to contributing to the Society’s work,” she says. “My research has drawn much inspiration from interdisciplinary contexts, and RSC opens new opportunities in that regard.”
