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My current research interests are Applied Linguistics, Multimodality and Discourse Analysis.
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- Research areas: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics and Translation .
June 2006 - October 2016
April 2015 - October 2016
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- Professor (Associate)
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- «Estudios cognitivos y sociopragmáticos del discurso científico y técnico / Cognitive and socio-pragmatic studies of scientific and technical discourse» – Universidad Politécnica de Madrid /UPM (Spain)
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The purpose of this study is analyze the discursive practices generated
by political professionals from Spanish parties from to related to their proposals for gender equity. Politicians aim to build a specific vision of the world in order to persuade citizens. Parties put forward alternatives to improve the everyday lives of Spanish women...
Este capítulo analiza una muestra de chistes sobre la subida de precios de la electricidad como ejemplos de humor polarizante, especialmente a través de metáforas y metonimias multimodales.
As the title suggests, the book examines the flourishing field of terminology from a cognitive perspective by offering new research in theory and practice and is aimed at researchers interested in both terminology and cognition.
The purpose of this book is to describe recent theoretical developments and the role of metaphor in terminology from a c...
This chapter analyses a variety of marine engineering cartoons and image macros (digital media pictures with texts superimposed) in English from a multimodal, cognitive and pragmatic perspective.
By expanding on previous work on multimodality (Molina and Allani 2020), this study’s main objective is to provide some insights into the most characteristic ways of portraying gender diversity in twenty Spanish and international engineering companies websites in their corporate social responsibility section . A multimodal functional perspective fo...
The fall of the Berlin Wall has generated emotions and social passions all over the world, not only in Germany but also in Spain. The entire communist world, and not only the new state of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was at stake. This chapter is concerned with the application of the notion of genre to Spanish newspapers, which dealt with...
This chapter’s main goal is to shed light onto the most characteristic meaning making processes in corporate narratives by analysis ten corporate narratives of well-known international companies from a multimodal-narrative perspective. This is a qualitative study that examines the modal affordances provided by image, lay-out and color, as well as t...
This research investigates metaphors used to construct maritime engineering concepts, discussing the diversity of metaphors that can be found in maritime research articles, based on a corpus of fifty articles chosen at random. A qualitative and quantitative analysis is applied.
This chapter examines thirty blogs for women engineers from a multimodal perspective, offering new ways of analysing their content and communicative strategies. The qualitative study focuses on how the interplay of different modes such as image, writing, typography and colour can be handled and how interpersonal and ideational realizations are cons...
This chapter explores the multimodal communicative strategies employed by The Women’s Engineering Society (WES) to present women engineers as competent professionals and construct their professional identity. We begin by analyzing how information is structured on the WES webpage; next, we examine the most salient elements which act as macro-themes;...
This study analyses thirty widespread frequent musical idioms and proverbs from a contrastive perspective focusing on their semantic features as well as on the way those idioms are used in real samples of discourse. The target of analysis is Spanish and English proverbs and idioms related to music, such as blow the whistle, call the tune, etc. The...
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Este capítulo ofrece una visión sobre distintos fenómenos y perspectivas en los estudios en el discurso especializado en las lenguas románicas, tanto en lo relativo a su origen como en lo concerniente a su descripción, adquisición y enseñanza. Asimismo, el artículo presenta líneas prometedoras de investigación en el ámbito del discurso de l...
Desarrollo de una aplicación educativa basada en las charlas TED dentro del proyecto de Innovación Educativa: Gamificación en el aula de inglés para fines específicos
This chapter intends to have a discussion about how semiotic tools function in realizing teh representational, persuasive and evaluative meaning of sixteen posters shown in an exhibition called " Con dos colores" in 2013 organized by the collective "Autoedita o muere" [Self-edit or die]
The aim of this paper is two-fold: a) look into the socio-cultural background of the most common twenty five sub-technical multiword naval units in a pilot corpus of 250,000 words, some of them metaphorical & metonymic expressions (Kovecses, 2002; Wray 2002); b) study ten of these metaphorical units in their contexts of production (EU maritime disc...
The aim of this paper is two-fold: a) look into the socio-cultural background of the most common twenty five sub-technical multiword naval units in a pilot corpus of 250,000 words, some of them metaphorical & metonymic expressions (Kovecses, 2002; Wray 2002); b) study ten of these metaphorical units in their contexts of production (EU maritime disc...
This study analyses thirty widespread frequent musical idioms and proverbs from a contrastive perspective focusing on their semantic features as well as on the way those idioms are used in real samples of discourse. The target of analysis is Spanish and English proverbs and idioms related to music, such as blow the whistle, call the tune, etc. The...
This volume offers readers interested in Discourse Analysis and/or Socio-Cognitive models of language a closer view of the relationship between discourse, cognition and society by disclosing how the cognitive mechanisms of discourse processing depend on shared knowledge and situated cognition. An inter- and multidisciplinary approach is proposed th...
This chapter's main goal is to shed light onto the most characteristic meaning making processes in digital storytelling by thoroughly analysing a single digital narrative from a functional-cognitive perspective. This mixed approach for a case study allows the analysts to unveil the macro and micro discourse strategies and the cognitive processes de...
This paper aims to delve into figurative language productivity in engineering and on examples of lexicalization and meaning construction. Particularly we focus on the domain of objects associated to homes and clothes. We believe that this type of analysis can shed light into the study of knowledge representation and improve understanding of technic...
This paper examines different options used by writers in reports and studies to control information from two departments of the European Commission: EU Maritime Affairs and Fisheries and Agriculture and Rural Development, using the web as corpus. These two Directorates or Commissions have the power of initiative, are responsible for policy formulat...
Diccionario Bilingue de Metaforas y Metonimias Cientifico-Tecnicas presents the extensive range of metaphoric and metonymic terms and expressions that are commonly used within the fields of science, engineering, architecture and sport science.
Compiled by a team of linguists working across a range of technical schools within the Universidad Polite...
This chapter presents an overview of the metaphoric conceptualizations of black and white using the BNC and Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual
This paper explores the pedagogical implications of contrastive analyses of light verb constructions containing get and take in English and Spanish based on electronic corpora, the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual (CREA). The main tenets of collocations from a contrastive perspective-and the points of co...
According to cognitive linguistics, language has an experiential origin based on perception, sensory motor activities and our knowledge of the world. Our thought operates by establishing similarities, links and associations that enable us to talk about one thing in terms of another as shown in the example of love as a journey (Lakoff and Johnson, 1...
Following a semiotically based concept of culture, this article presents an overview of the metaphoric conceptualizations of the colours black and white based on rich cross-linguistic empirical data from the BNC and Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual (CREA). There is a mixture of literal and figurative meanings in these two comparable corpora...
This paper is concerned with performative speech acts in European Union fisheries legislation with a view to relating the semantic analysis of directive and expressive speech act verbs to politeness strategies for the management of positive and negative face. The performative verbs used in directive and expressive speech acts belong to the semantic...
Digital stories are a very recent multimedia practice by which ordinary people construct short narratives on personal affairs combining voice, images and sometimes music. This paper contributes to the description of this new emergent genre from both a multimodal and a cognitive point of view, by exploring how diverse semiotic channels in digital st...
This study adopts a systemic functional approach (Halliday 1994, 2004) and Young’s taxonomy for lectures to explore the discourse strategies that lecturers use in MICASE (Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English) as well as the structure that they usually follow in the delivery of the subject content. Results confirm firstly that academic lecture...
This paper provides an overview of an ongoing research project work: " A Polytechnical Bilingual Dictionary of Metaphors: Spanish-English/English-Spanish " done by the UPM consolidated research group " DISCYT " (Estudios Cognitivos del Discurso Científico-Técnico). A detailed explanation of the method adopted to identify key metaphors collected fro...
The present article aims to illustrate that MarENG, an innovative maritime English learning tool not only promotes the maritime English language competences of those working in the various maritime professions in Europe but also shows uses of language which acknowledge, construct and evaluate (Thompson 1994; Hyland 2000; Leech 2003; Samson 2006). T...
ollocations are a fundamental category of (multi-)word combinations, to which particular attention has been drawn by the domain of phraseology. The great number of collocations in a language refer to the tendency for certain words to occur together. In this context, the complex nature of this variety of multi-word expressions makes collocations par...
Cross-linguistic research in English–Spanish phraseology has been limited to the comparison of idioms or metaphors in both languages, or the study of categories of set phrases around a given topic such as anger. In exploring the phenomenon of collocations – as a major category of multi-word combinations – in bilingual dictionaries, this paper focus...
Overview of the metaphoric and metonymic conceptualizations of black and white in English and Spanish. The general reseach question is: how and to what extent is culture actually shown in metaphors and metonymies? To answer this question, Piirainen's taxonomy (2007:209) is used to analyze different kinds of cultural phenomena from a qualitative poi...
RESUMEN En este trabajo se presenta un estudio preliminar de estrategias para enseñar dos actos de habla directivos en el aprendizaje del inglés en el ámbito de la ingeniería: las peticiones y las disculpas. Tras la instrucción explícita en ambos actos de habla, se fomenta el aprendizaje de los mismos mediante la creación de situaciones en las que...
The latest translations of Poe's narrative and poetry into Spanish are analyzed in detail.
Within the context of on-going research, this paper explores the pedagogical implications of contrastive analyses of multiword units in English and Spanish based on electronic corpora as a CALL resource. The main tenets of collocations from a contrastive perspective – and the points of contact and departure between both languages – are discussed pr...
Neste traballo explórase a relación entre unidades pluriverbais con carácter metafórico e
metonímico (expresións idiomáticas e refráns) do inglés e do español. Hai veces en que a
linguaxe figurativa se preserva na tradución, mais hai outras en que a imaxe se perde ou se
substitúe por unha diferente. Estudaranse trinta unidades pluriverbais no discu...
This paper presents some data about stance in the web 2.0, more specifically, regarding the area of Telecommunications in blogs. The final aim is to describe the speakers' stance as it is and how it is manifested in this type of texts in English by means of adverbs and adverbial expressions. To reach punctual conclusions, the speakers' stance expre...
The aim of this lexicographical project is to compile by semasiological order collocations, idioms and phraseological units in both languages with their equivalents. If there is not an equivalent phraseological unit, we look for a functional equivalent. Firstly,we will include the most significant 10,000 phraseological units from the Bank of Englis...
Corpus evidence has proven that expressions of modality are pervasive in present day English. After a brief theoretical introduction about modality in both languages and comparing how the latter is expressed in English and Spanish, we shall focus on examples of deontic modality from a semantic and pragmatic point of view. All the examples come from...
The aim of this paper is to explore differences and similarities in the expression of writer stance in newspaper discourse in English and Spanish.
Tras una breve introducción sobre las diferencias entre el habla de hombres y mujeres en lengua inglesa, el objetivo de este estudio es presentar la distribución y función de las contribuciones de las mujeres al habla en ámbitos públicos en diez diálogos procedentes de libros de texto de inglés de secundaria. Se ofrecen ejemplos que demuestran q...
Corpus evidence has proven that expressions of modality are pervasive in present day English. After a brief theoretical introduction about modality in both languages and comparing how the latter is expressed in English and Spanish, we shall focus on examples of deontic modality from a semantic and pragmatic point of view. All the examples come from...
The aim of this paper is to present on-going research (BFF 2003-02540 with the acronym DUFIE Diccionario de unidades fraseológicas inglés/español) of contrastive phraseology in English and Spanish, exposing in the introduction the main tenets of idioms and collocations from a contrastive perspective and analysing the most salient collocational stru...
The White Divel or the Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano, with the Lije and Death of Vittoria Corombona the famous Venetian Curtizan constituye una de las tragedias más interesantes de la primera dramaturgia postshakesperiana. 1 A partir de la narración de unos hechos escuetos acaecidos en la Italia del Cinquecento,2 Webster crea...
1. Introducción La traducción ha estado vinculada desde la antigüedad al aprendizaje de otras culturas y lenguas. El mundo greco-romano y medieval era conocedor de la traducción y sus técnicas tal como atestiguan los estudios de Horacio, Catulo, Cicerón y San Jerónimo o la Escuela de Traductores de Toledo, transmisora de la cultura islámica y grieg...
After some introductory remarks on women's and men's talk in English, this paper focuses on some aspects of the distribution and function of women's con tributions to formal discourse in ten dialogues of English Language Teaching (ELT) texts at secondary school level. Evidence is provided that males talk for longer and make for frequent contributi...
