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Daniela Pettersson-Traba obtains the ‘Leocadio Martín Mingorance’ 2023 Book Award for Theoretical and Applied English Linguistics

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; [...]

 

Daniela Pettersson-Traba receives AELINCO’s (Spanish Association for Applied Linguistics) 2023 Book Award ‘Aquilino Sánchez’ for Early Career Researchers

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 [...]

 

David Tizón-Couto has gained a position as Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at UVigo

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!

 

Behavioral Neuroscience Award for Best Paper in Behavioral Neuroscience for 2018

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 [...]

 

21st ELC research seminar: la Prof. Isabel Fraga impartirá el seminario “Las palabras emocionales desde una perspectiva psicológica (o cuando el usuario de la lengua es el lingüista)”

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, [...]

 

The ELC4 Conference in the press

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 [...]

 

PhD awarded: Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras

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 [...]

 

Two new research projects awarded to ELC members

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” [...]