External and internal sevices

Professor Carita Paradis, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University
External and internal services
Faculty opponent (external examiner)
• PhD thesis: Temperatur i språk och tanke. En jämförande semantisk studie i svenska temperaturadjektiv
(Temperature in language and thought. A comparative semantic study of Swedish
temperature adjectives). Annika Bergström Gothenburg University, 5 June 2010.
• PhD thesis: From physical to mental acquisition: a corpus-based study of verbs. Marie Nordlund, Luleå
Technical University, 29 August 2008
• PhD thesis: Danske retningsadverbier og rumlig orientering (Danish directional adverbs and spatial
orientation), Henrik Hovmark, Copenhagen University, 7 December 2007.
• PhD thesis: A construction-based study of English predicators, by Kim Ebensgaard Jensen,
University of Southern Denmark, 7 June 2007.
• MPhil thesis: A cognitive linguistic study of categorisation and uncertain reasoning in the representation of
degree modifiers. David Ringwood, Lancaster University, 14 December 2005.
• PhD thesis: Tense and aspect in learner writing: Advanced Swedish Learners’ use of tense and aspect in
English Argumentative Text. Andreas Eriksson, Gothenburg University, 18 September 2004.
Examination boards
• PhD thesis Estrategias de atenuación en español L1 y L2 hablado. Estudio contrastivo de hablantes
españoles y suecos en dos modalidades disursivas y en do contextos culturales. Disa Holmlander, Lund
University, 2 April 2011.
• PhD thesis L’adverbe derivé modifieur del adjectif. Étude compare du francais et du suédois. Maria
Fohlin, Växjö University, 28 November 2008 (substitute).
• PhD thesis From “Honourable” to “Highly-sexed”: Adjectival descriptions of male and female characters in
victorian and contemporary children’s fiction. Hanna Sveen, Uppsala University, 21 January 2006.
• PhD thesis Technology, language and thought extensions of meaning in the English lexicon. Marlene
Johansson Falck, Luleå Technical University, 14 October 2005.
• PhD thesis The emergence of conditional subordinators in Swedish. Henrik Rosenkvist, 26 November
2004, Lund University (substitute).
• Licentiate thesis Content and/or language? A study of Swedish upper-secondary compositions in English.
Barbro Lindhe, Lund University, 7 June 2001.
Editorial boards
• Human Cognitive processing series, published by John Benjamins (2010–)
• English Language and Linguistics, 2007–
• The Nordic Journal of English Studies, 2003–
Reviewing and scientific committees
• Reviewer of articles submitted for publication in Functions of Language, SKY Journal of
Linguistics, English Language and Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Studia Linguistica, Language,
Variation and Change, Neuphilologische Mitteilunge, Journal of Pragmatics, Intercultural Pragmatics,
Ibérica, Text & Talk, Acta Linguistica Hungarica, Linguistics, English Text Construction, Cognitive
Psychology, Psychological Review, Nordic Journal of English Studies, Journal of English Linguistics, Textus.
• Reader of book and book chapter proposals for Cambridge University Press, Mouton de
Gruyter, Emerald Books, Wiley-Blackwell and John Benjamins.
• Reader of grammar materials for Cambridge University Press.

Professor Carita Paradis, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University
• Member of scientific committee Societas Linguistica Europaea(SLE)
• Member of scientific committee of Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAm)
• Reviewer of conference submissions to the International Conference of Cognitive Linguistics
(ICCL), International Conference on Adjectives, The annual Cognitive Science conferences,
The Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC) and Societas Linguistica
Europaea (SLE).
Expert advisor
• External referee for postdoc appointment at Uppsala University (2011)
• External reviewer of research in English linguistics at Stockholm University (2010)
• Member of the Scientific Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences and chair of the
drafting board for project applications in linguistics (The Swedish Research Council 2010– ).
• External referee for research projects for the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong
Kong.
• External referee for professorship by request from the University of Hong
Kong.
• External referee for PhD appointment by request from Umeå University.
• External referee for grant applications for the Netherlands’ organization for Scientific
Research (NWO), the Council for the Humanities.
• External referee for promotion to Senior Lecturer by request from the University of
Manchester.
• Reviewer of research applications for The Swedish foundation for International cooperation
in research and higher education (STINT).
• Elector at the Swedish Research Council 2006.
• Reviewer of research applications for the Academy of Finland (Research Council for Culture
and Society) from senior researchers in linguistics.
• Expert advisor for the Academic Appointments and Promotions board, Växjö University
2003.
Invited positions
• Visiting scholar at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Manchester during the
academic year 1994–1995.
• Guest Professor at the Institute of Germanic Languages at Charles University (October 2009
and December 2010).
Member of scholarly associations
• Member of the board of the Scandinavian Association of Language and Cognition 2009 –
(SALC)
• Vice-president of the Swedish Association of Language and Cognition 2006–2009 (SALC)
• Member of the International Association for University Professors of English (IAUPE)
• Member of the board of the Swedish Association of English Studies from 2004– (SWESSE).
• Member of the New Society of Letters from 2003, Lund (Vetenskapssocieteten).
• Member of the board of the Association Suédoise de Linguistique Appliquée, 2002–2005
(ASLA).
• Treasurer for the Nordic Association of English Studies from 2001–2003 (NAES).
• Member of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE).
• Member of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE).

Professor Carita Paradis, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University
• Member of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA).
• Member of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA).
• Member of the International Pragmatics Association (IPra)
Internal service and leadership
• Member of the hearing committee for Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Linnaeus University, 2009.
• Member of the Academic Appointments and Promotions Board for the Humanities and
Pedagogy at Linnaeus University, 2009–2010.
• Chair of the postgraduate studies for modern languages and linguistics at Växjö
University (Språkvetenskapliga forskarämneskollegiet) 2008–2010.
• Member of the research strategy committee at the School of Humanities at Växjö
University, 2009–2010.
• Member of the Faculty Board for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Växjö University
(Utbildningnämnden för Forskarnivå inom Humaniora och Samhällsvetenskap), 2008–
• Co-ordinator for Växjö University and member of the planning committee of the Nordic
Master Programme for Teachers of English and German for Östfold University College
(Halden), Gothenburg University, Aarhus University and Växjö University, 2007
(Programme launched 2009)
• Member of the drafting board of the Master Programme committee at the School of
Humanities, Växjö University, 2006 (Programme launched 2007).
• Member of the Research Committee for the School of Humanities
(Forskningskommittéen), 2005–2010.
• Member of the department board, School of Humanities, Växjö University, 2006–2009.
• Member of the drafting board for decisions about curricula at the Division of Languages
and Literature at Växjö University (Beredningsgruppen), 2005–2010.
• Member of the research board for the School of Humanities at Växjö University, 2005–
2010.
• Chair of English as a subject and a research discipline at Växjö University, 2005–2010.
• Member of the department board, English Department, Lund University, 1999–2002.