Martina Zimmermann
Biographic Data
| ID | 3844190 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martina Zimmermann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martina |
| FAMILY NAME | Zimmermann |
| SIGNATURE | ZIMMERMANN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | English and Foreign Languages University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4274-6145 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Navigating gender and language
This paper explores the intersection of language and gender within a cross-institutional project in which future language teachers and students of applied linguistics collaboratively investigated educational practices in diverse contexts. The eight-month project in the UK and Switzerland examined how gender is addressed in and beyond the classroom. Qualitative data were collected through four recorded virtual reading sessions, two school visits, …
An agenda for the medical humanities and ageing
Pessimism about ageing is grounded in a decline narrative that upholds youth as embodying the productive, independent self. Challenging this narrative is central to age studies and essential to critical gerontology. The medical humanities, by comparison, have not sufficiently engaged with ageing to date. Rapid demographic shifts across the 20th century, partly brought about by medico-technological progress, have led to a growing number of older p…
Entrepreneurial visions of the self
In this special issue, we bring together empirical research that takes a critical perspective on the relationship between language learning and individual aspirations for future success. In doing so we aim to initiate a debate on how neoliberal ideology and mode of governance permeate language learning as part of a wider neoliberal project that postulates the ideal of the competitive and self-responsible language learner. The four contributions i…
Prophesying success in the higher education system of multilingual Switzerland
This paper investigates the conditions under which stakeholders in the higher education system in multilingual Switzerland link expectations of students’ future economic to the development of human capital. Drawing on ethnographic data collected in a project focusing on mobile students crossing linguistic borders within Switzerland, I examine how this expected success in the imagined future is conceptualized, i. e. what kind of learning and which…
The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind
The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind charts changing cultural understandings of dementia and alzheimer's disease in scientific and cultural texts across the 20th Century. Reading a range of texts from the US, UK, Europe and Japan, the book examines how the language of dementia - regarding the loss of identity, loss of agency, loss of self and life - is rooted in scientific discourse and expressed in popular and literary texts. Following changi…
Alzheimer's Disease Metaphors as Mirror and Lens to the Stigma of Dementia
This essay gives an overview of the metaphors that patients in comparison to caregivers employ to conceptualize their experience with the chronic degenerative, cognitive, and incurable aspects of Alzheimer's disease. It explores how the images (such as the journey, darkness, the death sentence, and torture) relate to the narration of cognitive decline and memory loss, and how these personal accounts negotiate with the culturally dominant dementia…
Please pass me the skin coloured crayon! Semantics, socialisation, and folk models of race in contemporary Europe
Two kinds of pink
Journeys’ in the Life-Writing of Adult-Child Dementia Caregivers
Narrating stroke
Cerebro-vascular events are, after neurodegenerative disorders, the most frequent cause of brain damage that leads to the patient's impaired cognitive and/or bodily functioning. While the medico-scientific discourse related to stroke suggests that patients experience a change in identity and self-concept, the present analysis focuses on the patients' personal presentation of their experience to, first, highlight their way of thinking and feeling …
Deliver us from evil
Alzheimer's disease is the most common neurodegenerative disorder in today's developed world that is also increasingly picked out as a focal theme in fictional literature. In dealing with the subjectivity of human experience, such literature enhances the reader's empathy and is able to teach about moral, emotional and philosophical issues, offering the chance to see situations from a position otherwise possibly never taken by the reader. The unde…
Entrepreneurial visions of the self
In this special issue, we bring together empirical research that takes a critical perspective on the relationship between language learning and individual aspirations for future success. In doing so we aim to initiate a debate on how neoliberal ideology and mode of governance permeate language learning as part of a wider neoliberal project that postulates the ideal of the competitive and self-responsible language learner. The four contributions i…
The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind
The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind charts changing cultural understandings of dementia and alzheimer's disease in scientific and cultural texts across the 20th Century. Reading a range of texts from the US, UK, Europe and Japan, the book examines how the language of dementia - regarding the loss of identity, loss of agency, loss of self and life - is rooted in scientific discourse and expressed in popular and literary texts. Following changi…
Deliver us from evil
Alzheimer's disease is the most common neurodegenerative disorder in today's developed world that is also increasingly picked out as a focal theme in fictional literature. In dealing with the subjectivity of human experience, such literature enhances the reader's empathy and is able to teach about moral, emotional and philosophical issues, offering the chance to see situations from a position otherwise possibly never taken by the reader. The unde…
Two kinds of pink
Prophesying success in the higher education system of multilingual Switzerland
This paper investigates the conditions under which stakeholders in the higher education system in multilingual Switzerland link expectations of students’ future economic to the development of human capital. Drawing on ethnographic data collected in a project focusing on mobile students crossing linguistic borders within Switzerland, I examine how this expected success in the imagined future is conceptualized, i. e. what kind of learning and which…
Please pass me the skin coloured crayon! Semantics, socialisation, and folk models of race in contemporary Europe
Deliver us from evil
Alzheimer's disease is the most common neurodegenerative disorder in today's developed world that is also increasingly picked out as a focal theme in fictional literature. In dealing with the subjectivity of human experience, such literature enhances the reader's empathy and is able to teach about moral, emotional and philosophical issues, offering the chance to see situations from a position otherwise possibly never taken by the reader. The unde…
Narrating stroke
Cerebro-vascular events are, after neurodegenerative disorders, the most frequent cause of brain damage that leads to the patient's impaired cognitive and/or bodily functioning. While the medico-scientific discourse related to stroke suggests that patients experience a change in identity and self-concept, the present analysis focuses on the patients' personal presentation of their experience to, first, highlight their way of thinking and feeling …
Journeys’ in the Life-Writing of Adult-Child Dementia Caregivers
Please pass me the skin coloured crayon! Semantics, socialisation, and folk models of race in contemporary Europe
Two kinds of pink
Alzheimer's Disease Metaphors as Mirror and Lens to the Stigma of Dementia
This essay gives an overview of the metaphors that patients in comparison to caregivers employ to conceptualize their experience with the chronic degenerative, cognitive, and incurable aspects of Alzheimer's disease. It explores how the images (such as the journey, darkness, the death sentence, and torture) relate to the narration of cognitive decline and memory loss, and how these personal accounts negotiate with the culturally dominant dementia…
Entrepreneurial visions of the self
In this special issue, we bring together empirical research that takes a critical perspective on the relationship between language learning and individual aspirations for future success. In doing so we aim to initiate a debate on how neoliberal ideology and mode of governance permeate language learning as part of a wider neoliberal project that postulates the ideal of the competitive and self-responsible language learner. The four contributions i…
Prophesying success in the higher education system of multilingual Switzerland
This paper investigates the conditions under which stakeholders in the higher education system in multilingual Switzerland link expectations of students’ future economic to the development of human capital. Drawing on ethnographic data collected in a project focusing on mobile students crossing linguistic borders within Switzerland, I examine how this expected success in the imagined future is conceptualized, i. e. what kind of learning and which…
The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind
The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind charts changing cultural understandings of dementia and alzheimer's disease in scientific and cultural texts across the 20th Century. Reading a range of texts from the US, UK, Europe and Japan, the book examines how the language of dementia - regarding the loss of identity, loss of agency, loss of self and life - is rooted in scientific discourse and expressed in popular and literary texts. Following changi…
An agenda for the medical humanities and ageing
Pessimism about ageing is grounded in a decline narrative that upholds youth as embodying the productive, independent self. Challenging this narrative is central to age studies and essential to critical gerontology. The medical humanities, by comparison, have not sufficiently engaged with ageing to date. Rapid demographic shifts across the 20th century, partly brought about by medico-technological progress, have led to a growing number of older p…
Navigating gender and language
This paper explores the intersection of language and gender within a cross-institutional project in which future language teachers and students of applied linguistics collaboratively investigated educational practices in diverse contexts. The eight-month project in the UK and Switzerland examined how gender is addressed in and beyond the classroom. Qualitative data were collected through four recorded virtual reading sessions, two school visits, …
Psychology (6 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Disease (3 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works)