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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; ISBN: 9783110792294; 267 pp.).
Congratulations!
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 the history of American English from the understudied semantic domain of SMELL: fragrant, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, and sweet-smelling. Their distribution is analyzed across a wide range of contexts, including semantic, morphosyntactic, and stylistic ones, since distributional patterns of this type serve as a proxy for semantic (dis)similarity. The data is submitted to various univariate and multivariate statistical techniques, making it possible to uncover fine-grained (dis)similarities among the near-synonyms, as well as possible changes in their prototypical structures. Her book sheds valuable light on the diachronic development of lexical near-synonyms, a dimension that has up to now been relatively disregarded.
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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 Behavioral Neuroscience for 2018. This award is decided upon by the editor and consulting editorial board of Behavioral Neuroscience and is made by Division 6 (Society of Comparative Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience) of the American Psychological Association.
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, de 16:00 a 18:00.
La actividad está organizada por el grupo de investigación VLCG (http://www.usc-vlcg.es) y la red ELC (https://elc.org.es).
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 English Departments at the Universities of Vigo and Santiago de Compostela, together with the Department of Social and Experimental Psychology at Santiago de Compostela, and supported by the English Linguistics Circle.
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 da Silva (Universidade Católica Portuguesa), Javier Pérez-Guerra (University of Vigo), Cristina Suárez-Gómez (University of the Balearic Islands).
Venue: Faculty of Philology, USC.
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” (grant PSI2012-32834; 01/01/ 2013-31/12/2015).
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