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Henrik Hovmark

PhD, M.A.

  • Emil Holms Kanal 2

    2300 København S

20032024

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Personal profile

Short presentation

I am leading co-editor of the Dictionary of Danish Insular Dialects and my main areas of research are semantics, cognitive linguistics, dialectology, and lexicography. I specialize in spatial language and my main current interest is the relationship between language and place, esp. the socio-culturally embedded conceptualization of place, the creation of mental maps and the relationship between language, place and identity. Another research interest is the history of Danish dialectology and lexicography. I was President of the Nordic Association for Lexicography 2013-2017. I am leading editor of the journal LexicoNordica (2021-, with Anna Helga Hannesdóttir, Göteborg).

Primary fields of research

  • Danish dialects (Dictionary of Danish Insular Dialects)
  • sociolinguistics, esp. language, place and identity
  • cognitive linguistics (spatial language)
  • language, culture and cognition
  • semantics
  • lexicography
  • history of science

Teaching

  • Danish dialects
  • lexicography
  • cognitive linguistics

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • cognitive linguistics
  • lexicography
  • dialectology
  • language and context
  • history of science