Valentina Concu, Ph.D
Linguist
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Lüneburg, Germany
Valentina Concu
About me:
I am a pragmaticist and linguist specializing in historical and variational pragmatics, with broader interests in sociopragmatics, language contact, and corpus linguistics. My historical research investigates how speakers of Old Saxon, Old High German, Middle High German, and Early New High German performed social actions through language and how pragmatic structures developed over time, with particular attention to speech acts and speech representation. My synchronic research examines pragmatic variation across social, regional, and contact settings, particularly in Colombian Spanish. Across these areas, I am interested in how linguistic forms acquire social and interactional meaning.
I am currently Lecturer for Italian and Linguistics at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany. I hold a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Purdue University (2021) and have previously held an assistant professorship at Universidad del Norte, Colombia.
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Recent Publications
Variables in contact: nominal address terms in Palenquero and Palenquero Spanish (with Johan De La Rosa and Wendy Valdez Jiménez). Intercultural Pragmatics, 2026 https://doi.org/10.1515/ip-2026-0114
Offers in the Old Saxon Hêliand: Illocutionary Force, Recipient Agency, and Speech Representation. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.25013.con
Not All It Seems Are the Same: A Systemic Functional and Pragmatic Approach to Evidentiality and Mitigation (with Jesus David Guerra Lyons; Johan Albert De La Rosa). Journal of Pragmatics, 255, 2026; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2026.01.007