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We are very pleased to be able to announce that Elena Seoane, who passed the national accreditation examination in 2013, has been promoted to a position as Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Vigo.

The members of the jury were Ignacio Palacios Martínez (University of Santiago de Compostela), Javier Pérez Guerra (University of Vigo), Javier Calle Martín (University of Málaga), Juan Manuel Hernández Campoy (University of Murcia) and Montserrat Martínez Vázquez (Universidad Pablo de Olavide).

For further information and a very nice picture, please follow this link.

Congratulations, Elena!

ELC members continue very active. This post reports on several new monographs that have just appeared in national and international publishing houses:

Castro-Chao, Noelia. 2021. Argument structure in flux: The development of impersonal constructions in Middle and Early Modern English, with special reference to verbs of Desire. (Linguistic Insights 274). Bern: Peter Lang. 277 pp. ISBN 978-3-0343-4189-9.

Lastres-López, Cristina. 2021. From subordination to insubordination: A functional-pragmatic approach to if/si-constructions in English, French and Spanish spoken discourse. (Linguistic Insights 280). Bern: Peter Lang. 254 pp. ISBN 978-3-0343-4220-9.
https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/74598

Rodríguez-Abruñeiras, Paula & Jesús Romero-Barranco.  2021. Long story short: An interactive journey through the history of English. València: Publicacions Universitat de València. 202 pp. ISBN 978-84-9134-840-5.
https://puv.uv.es/llibre/long-story-short-an-interactive-journey-through-the-history-of-english.html 

Congratulations to Noelia, Cristina and Paula!

We are pleased to announce that the following invited speakers have agreed to participate in the research seminars to be held this term:

• Tuesday, 28 September, 5:00-6:30 pm: Dr Raquel P. Romasanta (University of Vigo): “Contact-induced variation and change in World Englishes”. [32nd ELC Research Seminar]
• Tuesday, 9 November, 5:00-6:30 pm: Prof Dr Claudia Claridge (University of Augsburg): “The pragmatics of intensifiers in the Late Modern English courtroom”. [33rd ELC Research Seminar]

Por resolución de 10/06/2021, conjunta de la Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Universidade y la Consellería de Economía, Empresa e Innovación da Xunta de Galicia, Noelia Castro-Chao, miembro del grupo VLCG y actualmente Profesora interina de sustitución en la UVigo, ha obtenido un contrato postdoctoral de tres años de duración (referencia ED481B2021-046). Noelia defendió su tesis en mayo de 2020, al concluir su contrato predoctoral FPU (2016-2019); sus directoras de tesis han sido Teresa Fanego y Nuria Yáñez Bouza.

Esta convocatoria 2021 de Axudas de apoio á etapa de formación posdoutoral nas universidades do SUG se publica tras un año de carencia como consecuencia de la pandemia. Se han concedido 40 contratos, para un total de 150 solicitudes admitidas. El proyecto de investigación presentado por Noelia ha sido valorado con 99 puntos sobre 105, la segunda calificación más alta de las otorgadas.

Para más información, pulsar en este enlace.

Congratulations!

The following PhD dissertation will be publicly defended in the coming weeks:

4 May 2021 (10:30 am, blended): Alba Pérez González, The extender tags and the like and or something in late Modern English: A formal and functional approach. Supervisor: María José López-Couso. Examiners: Ignacio Palacios Martínez (USC), Javier Calle Martín (University of Málaga), Nila Vázquez (University of Murcia). Link: If you want to join the defence session, please click here.

Teresa Fanego and Paula Rodríguez-Puente have obtained the AESLA 2021 Book Award (‘Premio de Investigación Rafael Monroy 2021 de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada’) for the volume Corpus-based Research on Variation in English Legal Discourse (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 91, Amsterdam:  John Benjamins, 2019; viii + 294 pp. ISBN 978 9027202352).

Corpus-based Research on Variation in English Legal Discourse provides a comprehensive overview of the research carried out over the past thirty years in the vast field of legal discourse. The focus is on how such research has been influenced and shaped by developments in corpus linguistics and register analysis, and by the emergence from the mid 1990s of historical pragmatics as a branch of pragmatics concerned with the scrutiny of historical texts in their context of writing.

Reviewed by: Zhiying Xin & Jiawei Wang, The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 26/1 (2019): 127-132; Marijana Javornik Čubrić, LINGUIST List, issue 30.4177 (Nov 05 2019); Haoda Feng, Applied Linguistics, published online: 14 Nov 2019; Zhengrui Han, Discourse Studies 22/2 (2020): 243-245; Christopher Williams, Research in Corpus Linguistics 8/1 (2020): 178-194.

Please follow this link for a recent press release relating to activities by ELC members.

The following PhD dissertations will be publicly defended in the coming weeks:

23 March 2021 (5:30 pm, online): Iria de Dios-Flores, Processing long-distance dependencies: An experimental investigation of grammatical illusions in English and Spanish. Supervisors: J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña and Manuel Carreiras (Ikerbasque – Basque Foundation for Science). Examiners: Isabel Fraga (USC), Sol Lago (Goethe University Frankfurt), Brian Dillon (University of Massachusetts Amherst). [Opting to an International Mention.] Link: If you want to join the defence session, please click here

24 March 2021 (4:30 pm, online): Daniela Pettersson-Traba, A corpus-based study on near-synonymy: The concept PLEASANT SMELLING in 19th- and 20th-century American English. Supervisor: María José López-Couso. Examiners: Pascual Cantos (University of Murcia), Kathryn Allan (University College London), Belén Méndez-Naya (USC). [Opting to an International Mention.] Link: If you want to join the defence session, please click here

The following invited speakers have agreed to participate in the research seminars to be held from April to June 2021:

Tuesday 20 April, 5:00-6:30 pm: Jerzy Nykiel, University of Bergen: “Grammaticalization, analogy, and linguistic cycles – insights from the development of (mainly) purpose subordinators in the history of English”. [29th ELC research seminar]

Tuesday 18 May, 5:00-6:30 pm: Gema Alcaraz-Mármol (University of Castilla-La Mancha) & Jorge Soto-Almela (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid): “The discursive representation of migrants and refugees in the written press from a CADS perspective”.  [30th ELC research seminar]

Tuesday 15 June, 5:00-6:30 pm: Bernd Kortmann, University of Freiburg & Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.  [31st ELC research seminar]

We are happy to announce that Iván Tamaredo-Meira, a member of the VLCG team, has received the Extraordinary PhD Award 2018-2019 from the International Doctorate School at the University of Santiago de Compostela, for his dissertation entitled Processing grammatical structures: Morphosyntactic complexity and efficiency in varieties of English around the world, with special reference to pronoun omission. (Supervisors: Teresa Fanego and J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña).

Iván competed with 23 other candidates in the field of Arts and Humanities.

Further information to be found here.

Congratulations!