About me:
I am a historical pragmaticist and linguist specializing in the communicative architecture of early Germanic texts. My 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 those pragmatic structures evolved over time.
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.
Valentina Concu
Valentina Concu, Ph.D
Linguist
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Lüneburg, Germany
Recent Publications
Offers in the Old Saxon Hêliand: Illocutionary Force, Recipient Agency, and Speech Representation. Journal of Historical Pragmatics. 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 Yacomelo). Journal of Pragmatics, 255; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2026.01.007
Valentina Concu, Ph.D
Linguist
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Lüneburg, Germany