Rate My Professor Thora Tenbrink

Tenbrink's primary research focus is Cognitive Discourse Analysis (CODA), an empirical method she developed to access cognitive representations and processes through language data, as outlined in her book Cognitive Discourse Analysis: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Her earlier research examined spatial environments, including reference frames, navigation decisions, and wayfinding, detailed in Space, Time, and the Use of Language (Mouton de Gruyter, 2007). Recent studies apply CODA to place attachment, climate change perceptions, and threats, with key publications such as Place attachment and perception of climate change as a threat (PLoS ONE, 2023), Cognitive Discourse Analysis: accessing cognitive representations and processes through language data (Language and Cognition, 2015), and chapters in the Handbook of Cognitive Semantics (2023) and Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (2017). She has authored over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and co-edited three books on linguistic representation and dialogue, alongside editing special issues and conference proceedings. A Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales since 2022, Tenbrink leads funded projects like SellSTEM (EU Horizon 2020), Rural Wales Local Policy and Innovation Partnership, and community mapping for green transitions on Anglesey. She supervises PhD students in cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis, delivers invited keynotes and public lectures on spatial thinking, climate communication, and water safety, and contributes to policy on environmental concerns and UN Sustainable Development Goals including climate action.