EURALEX Talks is a series of online webinars featuring invited experts in the field of lexicography. These sessions, which are free and open to everyone, explore a wide variety of topics related to language and lexicography. Each talk lasts approximately 40 minutes, followed by an interactive session for questions and discussion.
Pamela Faber (28 January 2025)
The Language of Love Fraud: Frames of Deception
The language of love fraud is a unique example of an online linguistic deception. Using a fabricated identity, the fraudster creates the illusion of a romantic relationship between himself and the victim, solely through language. This deception is often successful because of the fraudster’s lexical choices (soulmate, cherish, adore, sacred vow, etc.) which override his flawed syntax and activate a frame of romantic love in her mind.
28 January 2025 at 16:00 (CET)
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Pamela Faber is Professor Emeritus in Translation and Interpreting at the University of Granada (Spain). She is the founder of the LexiCon research group, with whom she has carried out various nationally-funded research projects on Frame-Based Terminology, the approach to terminology that she created and developed. One of the results of these projects is EcoLexicon (ecolexicon.ugr.es), a terminological knowledge base on environmental science. She has more than 150 articles, book chapters, and books, which have inspired researchers throughout the world to explore specialized knowledge from a frame-based perspective.
