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Daniela Pettersson-Traba obtains the ESSE 2024 Book Award in English Language and Linguistics (Category B)
We are delighted to announce that at the European Society for the Study of English 2024 Conference (Lausanne, Switzerland, 26-30 August 2024), Daniela Pettersson-Traba, a member of the VLCG team, received the prestigious ESSE 2024 Book Award in English Language and Linguistics (Category B) for her research monograph The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English (Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2022; ISBN: 9783110792294; 267 pp.).
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Yolanda Fernández-Pena has gained a position as Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at UVigo
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.).
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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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Cristina Lastres-López receives AESLA’s (Spanish Association for Applied Linguistics) 2023 Book Award for Early Career Researchers
We are delighted to announce that Cristina Lastres-López, a member of VLCG, has received AESLA’s 2023 Award for Early Career Researchers for her monograph From subordination to insubordination: A functional-pragmatic approach to if/si-constructions in English, French and Spanish spoken discourse (Bern: Peter Lang, 2021; 254 pp.).
Cristina’s study constitutes a groundbreaking approach to if/si-constructions, from a functional-pragmatic and corpus-based perspective. The theoretical framework is based on the three metafunctions distinguished in Systemic Functional Linguistics, and the data analysed are retrieved from parliamentary discourse and conversations corpora. The examination of conditional constructions and cases of insubordination in parallel offers new light on the characterization of if/si-constructions and their uses and functions in interaction.
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USC Extraordinary PhD Awards 2020/2021 go to three members of ELC
We are very pleased to announce that Cristina Lastres-López, Daniela Pettersson-Traba and Iria de Dios-Flores have obtained the Extraordinary PhD Award for their doctoral dissertations, defended at the University of Santiago de Compostela in 2020/2021.
Cristina, Daniela and Iria competed with 25 other candidates in the fields of Linguistics, Philology and Philosophy.
For further information, please follow this link:
https://sede.usc.es/sede/publica/taboleiro/anuncio/120382/carga.htm
Congratulations, also to their supervisors!
Two ELC members have recently obtained tenure-track positions as AD
Noelia Castro-Chao and Raquel P. Romasanta, who were holders of competitive postdoctoral contracts funded, respectively, by the Xunta de Galicia and the Spanish Ministry of Universities, have recently obtained tenure-track positions as Lecturers (AD) at the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of the Balearic Islands.
Noelia is a member of the VLCG team, and Raquel of LVTC and ViEW.
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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!
FPU grants awarded to Jorge Fernández-Avilés and David Hernández-Coalla
The Spanish Ministry of Universities has recently announced that Jorge Fernández-Avilés and David Hernández-Coalla have been awarded four-year FPU grants (reference nos. FPU21/05035 and FPU21/06186) to prepare their PhDs at the Universities of Santiago de Compostela and Vigo.
Both Jorge and David have very distinguished CVs already! Their PhD supervisors will be, respectively, María José López-Couso and Teresa Fanego, and Javier Pérez-Guerra and Paula Rodríguez-Puente.
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Isabel Balteiro Fernández and Cristina Suárez-Gómez have been promoted to Full Professors of English Language and Linguistics
We are very pleased to announce that our friends and colleagues Isabel Balteiro-Fernández and Cristina Suárez-Gómez have recently been promoted to positions as Full Professors of English Language and Linguistics at the Universities of Alicante and the Balearic Islands respectively.
Congratulations, Isabel and Cristina!
