Post:	Teaching Fellow in Linguistics and English Language
Location:	Arts B B216
Email:	A.M.Koskela@sussex.ac.uk
Telephone numbers
Internal:	8116
UK:	(01273) 678116
International:	+44 1273 678116

Biography

Anu Koskela was born and grew up in Finland. She gained a BA (Hons) in Linguistics from the University of Sussex in 2001 and a DPhil in Linguistics in 2007 (also from Sussex), under the supervision of M. Lynne Murphy and Vyv Evans.

Role

Teaching Fellow in Linguistics and English Language

Research

Anu Koskela's research is concerned with lexical semantics (word meaning), particularly from a cognitive linguistic perspective. Her main research interest is variation in category inclusiveness and the phenomenon of vertical polysemy or autohyponymy.

Teaching

In Spring 2010, Anu is teaching the Level 3 course Cognitive Linguistics and the Level 1 course Language and Style (together with Barbara Allen). She also supervises final year Research Projects.

Her office hours are on Mondays 10.00-11.00 and Thursdays 11.00-11.50, in Arts B216. Outside these times she is available by appointment - please email to fix a time.

Publications

Murphy, M. Lynne and Anu Koskela (at press) Key Terms in Semantics. London: Continuum.

Koskela, Anu (submitted) Metonymy, category broadening and narrowing and vertical polysemy. In Réka Benczes, Antonio Barcelona and Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza (eds.), What is metonymy? An attempt at building a consensus view on the delimitation of the notion of metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Koskela, Anu and M. Lynne Murphy (2006) Polysemy and homonymy. In Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd edn). Oxford: Elsevier.

Koskela, Anu (2005) On the distinction between metonymy and vertical polysemy in encyclopaedic semantics. University of Sussex Working Papers in Linguistics and English Language LxWP 19/05. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/linguistics/documents/ak_metonymy.pdf