Elise Stickles, University of British Columbia

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Latest funding

Waging metaphorical war: Cross-linguistic analysis of metaphors for cancer, COVID-19, and climate change
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$153,160
Waging metaphorical war: Cross-linguistic analysis of metaphors for cancer, COVID-19, and climate change
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$94,361

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Waging metaphorical war: Cross-linguistic analysis of metaphors for cancer, COVID-19, and climate change

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Stickles, Elise M.

Keywords: metaphor theory; cognitive linguistics; corpus linguistics; comparative linguistics; discourse analysis; COVID-19; cancer; climate change

$153,160

Waging metaphorical war: Cross-linguistic analysis of metaphors for cancer, COVID-19, and climate change

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Stickles, Elise M.

Keywords: metaphor theory; cognitive linguistics; corpus linguistics; comparative linguistics; discourse analysis; COVID-19; cancer; climate change

$94,361

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Stickles, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Waging metaphorical war: Cross-linguistic analysis of metaphors for cancer, COVID-19, and climate change" (2022), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]