Jocelyn McKnight

Jocelyn McKnight is an undergraduate student currently pursuing a BA, majoring in English, with minors in French and Linguistics at the University of Lethbridge. Her honour's thesis is focused on polysemy and cognitive semantics in war and violence vocabulary in Tok Pisin, a mixed English and Indigenous language in Papua New Guinea. Jocelyn is involved in the Visionary Cross Project, works as an undergraduate TA in the Linguistics and Modern Language Department, and has served as an instructional designer for online secondary schooling in Alberta. Her academic interests revolve around Old English philology, linguistics related to mixed languages, and Digital Humanities. She hopes to persue graduate studies in Linguistics and continue her research in semantics and language contact.