November 13, 2023 4:37 pm / 6 comments
We are delighted to announce that, at the General Assembly of AEDEAN held on 10 November, Daniela Pettersson-Traba, a member of the VLCG team, received the prestigious ‘Leocadio Martín Mingorance’ 2023 Book Award for Theoretical and Applied English Linguistics for her research monograph The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English (Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2022; [...]
May 23, 2023 10:25 am / 3 comments
We are delighted to announce that Daniela Pettersson-Traba, a member of VLCG, has received AELINCO’s (Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics) 2023 Award ‘Aquilino Sánchez’ for Early Career Researchers for her monograph The development of the concept of SMELL in American English: A usage-based view of near-synonymy (Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2022; 267 pp.). Daniela’s study examines five adjectival near-synonyms in [...]
October 26, 2022 4:32 pm / 10 comments
We are pleased to announce that David Tizón-Couto has been promoted to a position as Senior Lecturer (‘Titular de Universidad’) in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Vigo. For a very nice picture of this special event please click here. Congratulations, David!
January 23, 2019 1:02 pm / 4 comments
The paper entitled “Preventing the Return of Fear Memories With Postretrieval Extinction: A Human Study Using a Burst of White Noise as an Aversive Stimulus” from Xosé Fernández-Rey and Jaime Redondo, members of the PCC research team, has been chosen as the winner of the D. G. Marquis Behavioral Neuroscience Award for Best Paper in [...]
March 12, 2018 9:57 am / no comments
El próximo martes 20 de marzo la profesora Isabel Fraga-Carou, coordinadora del grupo Procesos Cognitivos y Conducta (PCC) impartirá un seminario de investigación titulado “Las palabras emocionales desde una perspectiva psicológica (o cuando el usuario de la lengua es el lingüista)”. Resumen. Dicho seminario tendrá lugar en la Facultad de Filología de la USC, aula D03, [...]
February 5, 2015 9:55 am / no comments
Read about the Fourth International Postgraduate Conference on Language and Cognition (ELC4) at DUVI 04/02/2015. The ELC4 Conference is being held at the University of Vigo (Spain). The plenary speakers are: J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña (University of Santiago de Compostela), Pedro Álvarez-Mosquera (University of Salamanca) and Marjolijn Verspoor (University of Groningen). It is organised, jointly with ASYRAS 2015, by postgraduate students from the [...]
January 22, 2015 12:33 pm / no comments
20 January 2015: Congratulations to Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras, who defended her PhD thesis entitled Exemplifying markers in English: Synchronic and diachronic considerations [European Doctorate]. Paula is a member of the VLCG team. Supervisor: María José López-Couso (University of Santiago de Compostela). Examination Chair: Teresa Fanego (University of Santiago de Compostela). Examination Committee: Carlos Acuña-Fariña (University of Santiago de Compostela), Augusto Soares [...]
September 6, 2012 7:14 am / 5 comments
Ignacio Palacios and Carlos Acuña-Fariña have received funding from the Spanish Ministry for Economy and Competitiveness to carry out the research projects detailed below: Ignacio Palacios and team: ”El inglés hablado contemporáneo: el componente interpersonal en contextos informales y académicos” (grant FFI2012-31450; 01/01/ 2013-31/12/2015). Carlos Acuña-Fariña and team: “El procesamiento sintáctico visto desde la interferencia semántica” [...]