Swiss Center For Affective Sciences Swiss Center for Affective Sciences

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2012-onwards senior research associate in the MetaEMO project, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences

2012-2013 visiting researcher at the Department of English, University of Heidelberg

2011-2012 postdoctoral research associate, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva

2008-2010 postdoctoral researcher in the ELIN project, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva)

2007-2010 postdoctoral researcher in the Language and Culture research focus and coordinator of the Slavic section of the GRID project, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva

2001-2006 English language teacher and research assistant, English Philology department, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University (Ukraine)

2001-2005 PhD Germanic languages (English), Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine

2000-2001 MA English/French philology, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine

        1996-2000 BA English/French philology, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine
 

Current Research

 

Edited Volumes

Ogarkova, A., Borgeaud, Ph., and K.R. Scherer (Eds.) (2009). "The language of emotion: conceptual and cultural issues", special issue of Social Sciences Information, 48(3).

 

Journal Papers and Book Chapters

 

Ogarkova, A. & Soriano, C. (In Press). Anger as an emotion: A language-based perspective. In Schiewer, G., Altarriba, J., & Ng, B. (Eds.) Handbook on Language and Emotion. Mouton de Gruyter.

Ogarkova, A. & Soriano, C. (2018) Metaphorical and literal profiling in the study of emotions. Metaphor and Symbol, 33(1): 19-35. Download from: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/bUYzpRcqQRjseFmFzDn6/full

Ogarkova, A. (2016). Translatability of Emotions. In H.L. Meiselan (Ed.) Emotion Measurement, pp. 575-600. Elsevier.

Ogarkova, A., Soriano, C., Gladkova, A. (2016). Methodological triangulation in the study of emotion. Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 14(1), 73-101.

Ogarkova, A. & Soriano, C. (2014). Emotion and the body: A corpus-based investigation of metaphorical containers of anger across languages. International Journal of Cognitive Linguistics, 5(2), 147-179.

Ogarkova, A. & Soriano, C. (2014). Variation within universals: The 'metaphorical profile' approach to the study of ANGER concepts in English, Russian and Spanish. In A. Mussolf, F. MacArthur & G. Pagani (Eds.) Metaphor in Intercultural Communication, pp. 93-116. London: Continuum.

Ogarkova, A. (2013). Folk emotion concepts: lexicalization of emotional experiences across languages and cultures. In J. Fontaine, K.R. Scherer & C. Soriano (Eds.) Components of emotional meaning: A sourcebook, pp. 46-62. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ogarkova, A., Fontaine, J. & I. Prihod'ko (2013). What GRID can reveal about culture‐specific emotion concepts: a case-study of Russian "toska". In J. Fontaine, K.R. Scherer & C. Soriano (Eds.) Components of emotional meaning: A sourcebook, pp. 353-365. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ogarkova, A., Prihod'ko, I. & J. Zakharova (2013). Emotion terms semantics in Russian-Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Russian bilinguals. In J. Fontaine, K.R. Scherer & C. Soriano (Eds.) Components of emotional meaning: A sourcebook, pp. 490-495. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ogarkova, A., Panasenko, N. & B. Lewandowska‐Tomaszczyk (2013). Language family similarity effect: emotion terms in Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak, and Polish. In J. Fontaine, K.R. Scherer & C. Soriano (Eds.) Components of emotional meaning: A sourcebook, pp. 502-506. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Soriano, C., Fontaine, J., Ogarkova, A., Mejia, C., Volkova, Y., Ionova, S. & V. Shakhovskyy (2013). Types of anger in Spanish and Russian. In J. Fontaine, K.R. Scherer, K.R. & C. Soriano, C. (Eds.) Components of emotional meaning: A sourcebook, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Zakharova, J. & Ogarkova, A. (2013). The vocal expression component in the semantics of Russian, Ukrainian, and English emotion words. In J. Fontaine, K.R. Scherer, K.R. & C. Soriano, C. (Eds.) Components of emotional meaning: A sourcebook, pp. 496-501. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ogarkova, A., Soriano, C., & C. Lehr (2012). Naming feeling: Exploring the equivalence of emotion terms in five European languages. Lodz Studies in Language, 27, 253‐284. (Dynamicity in emotion concepts, special issue edited by P. Wilson).

Ogarkova, A., Soriano, C., & C. Lehr (2010). Cultural specificity in labeling emotional scenarios: a case study of ANGER, SHAME, GUILT, and PRIDE in five European languages. In V.I. Shakhovskyy (Ed.) Human communication: motives, strategies, tactics, pp. 71-84. Volgograd: Peremena.

Ogarkova, A., Borgeaud, Ph., & K.R. Scherer (2009). Language and culture in emotion research: a multidisciplinary perspective. Social Sciences Information 48(3), 339-357.

Ogarkova, A., Borgeaud, Ph. (2009). (Un)common denominators in research on emotion language: a postscript. Social Sciences Information 48(3), 523-543.

Ogarkova A. (2007). Green-eyed monsters: a corpus-based study of the concepts of ENVY and JEALOUSY in modern English. metaphorik.de 13, 87-147.

Ogarkova, А. (2004). Genre and communicative dimensions of English love correspondence, Cultura Stran Prichernomorya, 49 (1), 108 -112.

Ogarkova, А. (2004). Metaphoric representation of the concept of LOVE in different types of discourse. Linguistic and Conceptual Pictures of the World 10, 466-473.

Ogarkova, А. (2004). The concept of LOVE in expert theories of emotions. Linguistic and Conceptual Pictures of the World 11, 55-59.

Ogarkova, А. (2003). Discourse peculiarities of lovers' talk. Linguistic and Conceptual Pictures of the World 9, 222-227.

Ogarkova, А. (2003). Verbalization of the concept of LOVE as a culture-specific phenomenon. Journal of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Foreign Languages 34, 62-75.

Ogarkova, А. (2002). Conceptual LOVE-AS-FLUID metaphor in modern English. Linguistic and Conceptual Pictures of the World 7, 392-398.

Ogarkova, А. (2002). The concept of LOVE in English metaphors. Review in Romance and Germanic Languages, Uzhgorod: Patent, 52 - 65.

 

Encyclopedia Entries

Soriano, C., Ogarkova, A. (2009). Linguistics and emotion. In Sander, D., Scherer, K. (Eds.) Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences, Oxford University Press, 240-242.

 

Reviews

Ogarkova, A. (2012). Review of Jean-Marc Dewaele (2010) Emotions in Multiple Languages. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 22 (1), 129-134.

 

Conference Contributions

Ogarkova, A., Soriano, C. (2015). Metaphorical profiles of ANGER nouns in three languages: Converging evidence with cross-cultural emotion psychology. Paper presented at the symposium "What do language patterns reveal about the emotions? Lexico-grammatical profiling in the study of emotion concepts”, Conference of the International Society for the Research on Emotion (ISRE).Geneva, July 8-10.

Soriano, C., Ogarkova, A. (2015). The meaning of “frustration” across languages. Paper presented at the sympoium "Semantic analysis of emotion words using the GRID paradigm: Validation and application of a brief version of the instrument", Conference of the International Society for the Research on Emotion (ISRE).Geneva, July 8-10.

Soriano, C. & Ogarkova, A. (2014). "Triangulating results from CMT and emotion psychology". Paper presented at IX International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association (AELCO). Badajoz (Spain), 15-18 October.

Ogarkova, A., Fontaine, J., Prihod'ko, I. (2014). What GRID can reveal about culture-specific emotion concepts: a case study of Russian 'toska'. Paper presented at Consortium of European Research on Emotion (CERE 2014). Berlin, 27-28 March.

Ogarkova, A., Soriano, C. (2013). Metaphor in representation of emotion concepts: experimental testing of corpora evidence. Paper presented at the session "Emotions in Language, Culture, Cognition [EmiLCC]", The International Congress of Linguists. Geneva, July 21-27.

Ogarkova, A., Soriano, C. (2013). Voices and sounds in emotion metaphor: Insights from the metaphorical profile approach. Paper presented at the workshop "The Affective Semantics of Voices and Sounds", NCCR Affective Sciences. Geneva, May 29.

Ogarkova, A., Soriano, C. (2013). Across disciplinary boundaries: feature-based and metaphorical profiling methods in the comparative study of ANGER conceptualization. Paper presented at the specialised seminar "Metaphor, Metonymy and Emotions", The International Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM). Poznan (Poland), May 2-3.

Ogarkova, A., Soriano, C. (2013). Emotion and the body: a corpus-driven investigation of metaphorical containers of anger across languages. Paper presented at the conference Emotion, Affect, Sentiment: The Language and Aesthetics of Feeling (SAUTE 2013). Lausanne, April 19-21.

Ogarkova, A., Soriano, C. (2012). Triangulating cognitive and psycholinguistic approaches in cross-cultural research on emotion conceptualization. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association. Freiburg, October 10-12.

Ogarkova, A. (2012). Anger and the city: cultural factors mediating emotion meaning construction in bilingual urban milieu. Paper presented at the 19th Sociolinguistic Symposium, Berlin, August 22-24.

Ogarkova, A., Soriano, C. (2012). What metaphorical profiles of emotion nouns can tell about the emotions: converging evidence with (cross-cultural) cognitive psychology. Paper presented at the 4th Cognitive Linguistics Conference, London, July 10-12.

Soriano, C., Ogarkova, A. (2012). ANGER revisited: Cross-linguistic corpus evidence for a new model. Paper presented at the 4th Cognitive Linguistics Conference. London, July 10-12.

Soriano, C., Ogarkova, A. (2012). "Frustration" in Europe: cultural specificity in the meaning of emotion cognates. Paper presented at the 35th LAUD Symposium. Koblenz-Landau, March 26-29.

Ogarkova, A. & Soriano, C. (2012). Conceptual metaphor in the study of emotion: method and applications. Paper presented at the workshop "Emotion and metaphor, ancient and modern: Interdisciplinary perspectives". NCCR Affective Sciences, Geneva, March 14.

Soriano, C., Ogarkova, A, & Lehr (C.) (2010). Different ways of being angry. Intracategorial variation in the metaphorical conceptualization of emotion. Paper presented at the 7th AELCO International Conference. Almagro (Spain), September 30 - October 2.

Soriano, C., Ogarkova, A. & Lehr, C. (2010). Types of anger and their metaphors. MPA in English, German, Spanish and Russian. Paper presented at RaAM 8. Amsterdam (Netherlands), June 30 - July 3.

Soriano, C., Ogarkova, A. (2009). Linguistic approaches to the meaning of emotion terms: Relationships to the GRID componential approach. Paper presented at the symposium "Language and Emotion: Cross-Cultural Approaches to Emotion Words", Conference of the International Society for the Research on Emotion (ISRE). Leuven (Belgium), August 6-8.

Ogarkova, A., Soriano, C. & Lehr, C. (2009). Cultural differences in labeling conflict emotions. Paper presented at the International conference of the International Society for Language Studies (ISLS), Orlando (Florida, USA), June 11-13.

Ogarkova, A., Soriano, C. & Lehr, C. (2009). The mapping method in establishing (translation) equivalence: A case study of conflict emotions in 5 European languages. Paper presented at the interdisciplinary workshop "Emotions in Translation: Lost or Found?". NCCR Affective Sciences, Geneva, May, 6.

Ogarkova A. (2008). Identifying emotion-specific metaphors via distribution statistics: a corpus-based account. Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor, Caceres, Spain, May 29-31.

Ogarkova A. (2007). The concept of LOVE: A cognitive-discursive perspective. Paper presented at the 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference(ICLC 2007), Crakow, Poland, 15-20 July.

Ogarkova A. (2007). Green-eyed monsters: A corpus-based study of ENVY and JEALOUSY in modern English. Paper presented at the 19-th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference and Workshop (ESFLCW 2007), Saarbrücken, Germany, 23-25 July.

Ogarkova A. (2004). LOVE vs INFATUATION: A cognitive account. Paper presented at the conference Current Trends in Cognitive Linguistics, Hamburg, Germany, 10-11 December.

Ogarkova A. (2003). Metaphors expressing the concept of LOVE in Modern English. Paper presented at the 8-th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference: Cognitive Linguistics, Functionalism, Discourse Studies, Logrono, Spain, 15-20 July.