iMAES
Inter-university Master in Advanced English Studies and its Applications
Máster Interuniversitario en Estudios Ingleses Avanzados y sus Aplicaciones
TFMs: Oportunidade de Xullo de 2021
7 julio, 2021
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[Cada un dos tribunais propostos conta co preceptivo membro suplente, aínda que non se indica nesta relación.]
USC: UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
1) Título: A Contrastive Critical Discourse Analysis of Right-wing Populism: The cases of Donald Trump and Santiago Abascal
Autora: Noelia Álvarez Alonso
Titora: María de los Ángeles Gómez González
Tribunal:
Presidente: Luis Iglesias Rábade
Secretaria: Laura Lojo Rodríguez
Vocal: Teresa Sánchez Roura
Data, hora e lugar de defensa: luns, 12 de xullo de 2021, ás 12:00, via MS Teams
2) Título: From lexis to grammar: a diachronic study of the modal verb will
Autor: Hugo Álvarez Manso
Titora: María Belén Méndez Naya
Tribunal:
Presidenta: María José López Couso
Secretario: Mario Cal Varela
Vocal: Paloma Núñez Pertejo
Data, hora e lugar de defensa: xoves, 15 de xullo de 2021, ás 18:30, B03 Facultade de Filoloxía / via MS Teams
3) Título: Rhythmic alteration in Standard American English and General Indian English: An analysis of broadcast news using the Praat tool
Autora: Diana Borisevičiūtė
Titora: María de los Ángeles Gómez González
Tribunal:
Presidente: Luis Iglesias Rábade
Secretaria: Margarita Estévez Saá
Vocal: Teresa Sánchez Roura
Data, hora e lugar de defensa: luns, 12 de xullo de 2021, ás 09:30, via MS Teams
4) Título: Racial Trauma in Toni Morrison’s Home
Autora: Katia Fernández Jorge
Titor: Constante González Groba
Tribunal:
Presidente: Patricia Fra López
Secretaria: Susana María Jiménez Placer
Vocal: Laura María Lojo Rodríguez
Data, hora e lugar de defensa: martes, 13 de xullo de 2021, ás 12:00, via MS Teams
5) Título: The impact of new technologies and their application in the teaching of English in the Galician educational system
Autor: Adrián García Suárez
Titor: Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez
Tribunal:
Presidente: J. Carlos Acuña Fariña
Secretaria: Susana María Doval Suárez
Vocal: Elsa María González Álvarez
Data, hora e lugar de defensa: venres, 16 de xullo de 2021, ás 10:00, via MS Teams
6) Título: Running Resultatives to the ground: A Construction Grammar approach to
the status of the postverbal NP in “fake object” Resultative Constructions
in English
Autor: Jesús Leiro Lorenzo
Titor: J. Carlos Acuña Fariña
Tribunal:
Presidenta: Teresa Fanego Lema
Secretaria: Belén Méndez Naya
Vocal: Ignacio Palacios Martínez
Data, hora e lugar de defensa: venres, 16 de xullo de 2021, ás 16:30, Sala 303, Facultade de Filoloxía
7) Título: Behind the scenes: a study on teachers’ perceptions of the Flipped Classroom method
Autora: Tamara Pereiras Cristobo
Titoras: Elsa María González Álvarez e Susana María Doval Suárez
Tribunal:
Presidente: Ignacio Palacios Martínez
Secretario: Mario Cal Varela
Vocal: Francisco Javier Fernández Polo
Data, hora e lugar de defensa: xoves, 8 de xullo de 2021, ás 10:00, via MS Teams
8) Título: A corpus-based study of the speech acts of apology: A comparison of British English, American English, Hong Kong English and Philippine English
Autor: Marta Souto Casal
Titor: María José López Couso
Tribunal:
Presidente: Luis Iglesias Rábade
Secretaria: Elsa María González Álvarez
Vocal: María Belén Méndez Naya
Data, hora e lugar de defensa: xoves, 15 de xullo de 2021, ás 17:00, B03 Facultade de Filoloxía / via MS Teams
UVigo: UNIVERSITY OF VIGO
1) Abalo Dieste, Laura
Fragmentary constructions as proxies for colloquialisation in Present- Day written English
Supervisor: Javier Pérez Guerra
Committee: Dolores González Álvarez (Chair), Ana Elina Martínez Insua (Secretary), and Esperanza Rama Martínez
Date, time and place: 22 July 2021, at 13.00. Campus Remoto.
2) Custodio Adán, Tania
Looking Beyond Prostitution: Giving Voice to the Jilt and the Picara in The London Jilt or the Politick Whore (1683)
Supervisor: Jorge L. Bueno Alonso
Committee: Jorge Figueroa Dorrego (Chair), Jorge Luis Bueno Alonso (Secretary), and Araceli González Crespán
Date, time and place: 19 July 2021, at 12.00. Campus Remoto (Room 318, password d9QmuvoJ)
3) Domínguez Viso, Muriel
Personal Truths and the Non-Fiction Essay: Shame, Silence and Pain in Emilie Pine’s Notes To Self and Sinéad Gleeson’s Constellations: Reflections from Life
Supervisor: Teresa Caneda Cabrera
Committee: Teresa Caneda Cabrera (Chair), Martín Urdiales Shaw (Secretary), and Araceli González Crespán
Date, time and place: 21 July 2021, at 12.30. Campus Remoto (Room 379 – password UAJHQKmZ)
4) Freire Gargamala, Lydia
Ecological Imperialism in Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo and Lord Jim
Supervisor: Jorge Figueroa Dorrego
Committee: Jorge Figueroa Dorrego (Chair), Martín Urdiales Shaw (Secretary), and Teresa Caneda Cabrera.
Date, time and place: 21 July 2021, at 11.00, Campus remoto (Room 917, password: UC1f9SEB)
5) Nieves Fernández, Mar
An Orthoepical Analysis of /ŋ/ in Thomas Spence’s The Grand Repository of the English Language (1775)
Supervisor: Nuria Yáñez Bouza
Committee: Dolores González Álvarez (Chair), Nuria Yáñez Bouza (Secretary), and Esperanza Rama Martínez
Date, time and place: 19 July 2021, at 13.00. Campus remoto (Room 2747, password: Nuria2020)
UDC: UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA
1) Santiago Carreira Rodríguez
Mystic River and Prisoners Viewed from Masculinity Studies and Affect Theory
Supervisor: Carolina Núñez Puente
Committee: María Jesús Lorenzo Modia (Chair), José Miguel Alonso Giráldez (Secretary), and Isabel Sofía Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño
Date, time and place: 14 July 2021, at 9:00, via MS Teams
2) Paula García Domínguez
“Progress—Isn’t That Wonderful?”: An Analysis of Ethnic American Fiction on the Future(s) of Race
Supervisor: Begoña Simal González
Committee: María Jesús Lorenzo Modia (Chair), José Miguel Alonso Giráldez (Secretary), and Isabel Sofía Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño
Date, time and place: 14 July 2021, at 9:30, via MS Teams
3) Xoán Guitián Carril
All Else Confusion: A Study of the Textual Violence on Alan Moore’s From Hell
Supervisor: María Jesús Cabarcos Traseira
Committee: María Jesús Lorenzo Modia (Chair), José Miguel Alonso Giráldez (Secretary), and Isabel Sofía Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño
Date, time and place: 14 July 2021, at 10:00, via MS Teams
4) Diego López Pombo
“Property, and a Valuable Property”: A Study of Disposability, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Slaves in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “The Water Dancer”
Supervisor: Begoña Simal González
Committee: María Jesús Lorenzo Modia (Chair), José Miguel Alonso Giráldez (Secretary), and Isabel Sofía Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño
Date, time and place: 14 July 2021, at 10:30, via MS Teams
5) Rocío Moreno Carreira
Deconstructing Ian McEwan’s Atonement through Trauma, Memory and Imagination, the Hyperreal and Gender Roles
Supervisor: David Mitchell Clark Mitchell
Committee: María Jesús Lorenzo Modia (Chair), José Miguel Alonso Giráldez (Secretary), and Isabel Sofía Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño
Date, time and place: 14 July 2021, at 11:00, via MS Teams
6) Yarizán Pan Pérez
Culture, Humour, and Subtitles: The Translation into English of Ocho Apellidos Vascos
Supervisor: Elizabeth Anne Woodward Smith
Committee: María Jesús Lorenzo Modia (Chair), José Miguel Alonso Giráldez (Secretary), and Isabel Sofía Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño
Date, time and place: 14 July 2021, at 12:00, via MS Teams
7) Carla Portela Marín
Reading Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah Transculturally
Supervisor: José Manuel Estévez Saá
Committee: María Jesús Lorenzo Modia (Chair), José Miguel Alonso Giráldez (Secretary), and Isabel Sofía Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño
Date, time and place: 14 July 2021, at 12:30, via MS Teams
8) Elena Sánchez Barbeito
The Significance of Second Wave Feminism for Networked Feminism: The #MeToo Movement
Supervisor: Carolina Núñez Puente
Committee: María Jesús Lorenzo Modia (Chair), José Miguel Alonso Giráldez (Secretary), and Isabel Sofía Moskowich-Spiegel Fandiño
Date, time and place: 14 July 2021, at 13:00, via MS Teams
Research Seminar: “The discursive representation of migrants and refugees in the written press from a CADS perspective”, Gema Alcaraz Mármol (University of Castilla-La Mancha) and Jorge Soto Almela (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
4 mayo, 2021
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On behalf of the research network ENGLISH LINGUISTICS CIRCLE (ELC), we are pleased to announce the 30th ELC Research Seminar (online). Details follow here:
Date and time: Tuesday 18 May, 5:00 – 6:30 pm, via Microsoft Teams
Speakers: Gema Alcaraz Mármol (University of Castilla-La Mancha) and Jorge Soto Almela (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Title of talk: “The discursive representation of migrants and refugees in the written press from a CADS perspective”
Convenor: Fátima Faya Cerqueiro
Registration is free, but required. The registration form can be found at:
https://forms.gle/A2xen9Px6PiMnFmF9
Upon registration, a link will be sent to registered attendees the day before the seminar.
ELC seminars are intended for members of staff and MA and PhD students at Departments of English and, more generally, for anyone interested in linguistics.
Brief profiles:
Gema Alcaraz Mármol holds a PhD (2011) in English Linguistics from the University of Murcia, with a dissertation on “Quantity and rate of vocabulary acquisition in the context of non-systematic input: Elementary students of English as a Foreign Language”. Since 2014 she has worked at the Department of Modern Philology of the University of Castilla-La Mancha, where she is an Associate Professor.
Jorge Soto Almela received his PhD (2014) in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Murcia, with a thesis on “Los términos culturales en el ámbito turístico español-inglés: traducción, manipulación y recepción real en usuarios anglófonos”. He has been a Lecturer in English at the Universidad Católica de San Antonio in Murcia (2012-2019) and is currently a Lecturer in English for Professional and Academic Communication at the Department of Applied Linguistics of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
Recent publications on the seminar’s topic:
- Gema Alcaraz Mármol & Jorge Soto Almela. Refugees’ dehumanization in the Spanish media: A corpus-assisted study within the semantic preference framework. Applied Linguistics Review. Published online: February 20, 2020.
- 2019. Jorge Soto Almela & Gema Alcaraz Mármol. Victims or non-humans: Exploring the semantic preference of refugees in Spanish news articles.
- Gema Alcaraz Mármol & Jorge Soto Almela. Refugees in the Spanish press: A corpus-assisted study of the semantic prosody of the term ‘refugiado’ from a diachronic perspective. Sintagma 30: 95-113.
- Jorge Soto Almela & Gema Alcaraz Mármol.Comparing the portrayal of immigration in two Spanish newspapers: Asemantic prosody analysis. Onomázein. Revista de lingüística, filología y traducción de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 38: 147-168.
Research Seminar “Grammaticalization, analogy, and linguistic cycles – insights from the development of (mainly) purpose subordinators in the history of English”
12 abril, 2021
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A new ELC research seminar will be held online, via Microsoft Teams.
Details follow here:
Date and time: Tuesday 20 April, 5:00 – 6:30 pm, via Microsoft Teams
Speaker: Dr. Jerzy Norbert Nykiel (University of Bergen, Norway)
Title of talk: “Grammaticalization, analogy, and linguistic cycles – insights from the development of (mainly) purpose subordinators in the history of English”
Registration is free, but required. The registration form can be found at:https://forms.gle/8axRbPpAKDjyWESz5 Upon registration, a link will be sent to registered attendees a few days ahead of the seminar.
ELC seminars are intended for members of staff and MA and PhD students at Departments of English and, more generally, for anyone interested in linguistics.
Brief profile: Jerzy Norbert Nykiel holds a PhD (2010) from the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland). He has been a Lecturer in English at the University of Silesia and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar (2012-2013) at Arizona State University. Since 2015 he is an Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Bergen (Norway).
Some recent publications:
2020. So that in clauses of result and purpose in Middle English. In Hans Sauer & Piotr P. Chruszczewski (eds.), Mostly Medieval. In Memory of Jacek Fisiak. San Diego, CA: Æ Academic Publishing, 354-370.
2019. ‘Thone vpon thother’. On pronouns one and other with initial th- and t- in Middle English. In Claudia Claridge & Birte Böss (eds.), Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 57-75.
2018. Onmang Þæt – Incipient grammaticalisation in Old and Middle English. Transactions of the Philological Society 116(3): 574-593. 2017. Grammaticalization of the English adverbial subordinator in order that: (Inter)subjectification and directionality. In Daniel Van Olmen, Hubert Cuyckens & Lobke Ghesquière (eds.), Aspects of Grammaticalization. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 237-256. (With Andrzej M. Łęcki.)
2017. (Ed.), Current Developments in English Historical Linguistics. Studies in Honour of Rafał Molencki. Katowice; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego. (With Artur Kijak & Andrzej M. Łęcki.) 2015. The reduced definite article th’ in Late Middle English and beyond: An insight from the definiteness cycle. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 27(2): 105-144.
2014. Grammaticalization reconciled: Functionalist and minimalist insights into the development of purpose subordinators in English. Language Sciences 42: 1-14.
28th ELC Research Seminar “Discourse Grammar and its applications: Evidence from language disorder and diachrony” Prof. Dr. Gunther Kaltenböck (University of Graz, Austria)
2 marzo, 2021
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«On behalf of the research network ENGLISH LINGUISTICS CIRCLE (ELC), we are pleased to announce the 28th ELC Research Seminar (online). Details follow here:
Date and time: Monday, 15 March, 5:00 – 6:30 pm, via Microsoft Teams
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Gunther Kaltenböck (University of Graz, Austria)
Title of talk: “Discourse Grammar and its applications: Evidence from language disorder and diachrony”
Convenor: María José López-Couso
Registration is free, but required. The registration form can be found at https://forms.gle/QF9tx2r2yo9WPG8i7
Upon registration, a link will be sent to registered attendees a few days ahead of the seminar.
ELC seminars are intended for members of staff and MA and PhD students at Departments of English and, more generally, for anyone interested in linguistics.
Brief profile:
Gunther Kaltenböck is Professor of English Linguistics at the Karl-Franzens University of Graz. His main research interests lie in the domain of Cognitive-Functional Grammar, Syntactic variation and change, and Pragmatics and the communicative function of linguistic elements in speaker–hearer interaction.
Some recent publications:
2021. The rise of discourse markers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (with Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva, Haiping Long).
2020. (ed.) Grammar and Cognition: Dualistic Models of Language Structure and Language Processing. Amsterdam: Benjamins (with Alexander Haselow).
2020. (ed.) Investigating stance in English: Synchrony and diachrony – Special issue of Language Sciences (with María José López-Couso, Belén Méndez-Naya).
2020. “Exclamatives as a thetical category of English”, Functions of Language 27.2: 207-233. (with Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva, Haiping Long).
2019. (ed.) Insubordination: theoretical and empirical issues. Berlin: De Gruyter (with Karin Beijering, María Sol Sansin͂ena).
With best wishes,
Teresa Fanego
Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez
J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña
Rosa Alonso Alonso
Isabel Fraga
Javier Pérez-Guerra »
Seminar «Virginia Woolf Beyond Words»
24 febrero, 2021
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Certificates of attendance will be issued
Research Seminar “Don’t take it out on words, blame the suffixes”, Prof. José Antonio Sánchez Fajardo (University of Alicante)
22 febrero, 2021
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Research seminar online, via Microsoft Teams, today Monday, 22 February, 5:00 – 6:30 pm.
Speaker: José Antonio Sánchez Fajardo (University of Alicante)
Title of talk: “Don’t take it out on words, blame the suffixes: On the morphopragmatic properties of pejorative suffixation in English” .
Convenor: Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez (USC)
Certificates of attendance will be issued.
Registration is free. Those interested in connecting online, please send an email to Lidia Gómez García (lidiagogar@gmail.com), indicating the name and surname with which you wish to appear on the certificate.
A Teams link will be sent to you a few days before the seminar.
The ELC Research Network,
TFMs: Oportunidade de Febreiro de 2021
25 enero, 2021
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[Cada un dos tribunais propostos conta co preceptivo membro suplente, aínda que non se indica nesta relación.]
Jack Kaakejian. COVID-19 in Online Media: A Comparative Critical Discourse Analysis.
Supervisor: Teresa Sánchez Roura.
Assessment Committee: Luis Iglesias Rábade (Chair)
Cristina Mourón Figueroa (Secretary)
Manuela Palacios González.
Date of defence: Monday, February 8th, 2021; 16:00; Microsoft Teams
Irina Rumbo Calvo. Discourse of news values analysis: Hurricane Laura in online media.
Supervisor: Teresa Sánchez Roura.
Assessment Committee: Luis Iglesias Rábade (Chair)
Elsa González Álvarez (Secretary)
Manuela Palacios González.
Date of defence: Monday, February 8th, 2021; 16:30; Microsoft Teams
Listaxe definitiva de adxudicións de prácticas externas 2020-2021
15 diciembre, 2020
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A listaxe definitiva de adxudicacións de prácticas externas para o curso 2020-2021 pode consultarse aquí.
Listaxe provisional de adxudicións de prácticas externas 2020-2021
4 diciembre, 2020
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A listaxe provisional de adxudicacións de prácticas externas para o curso 2020-2021 pode consultarse aquí.
ONLINE LECTURE «Victorian Periodicals & Travel Writing»
30 noviembre, 2020
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ONLINE LECTURE
«Victorian Periodicals & Travel Writing»
Prof. Dr. Barbara Korte (University of Freiburg)
Friday, December 4, 2020, 10:00-11:30 @ MS Teams.
Registration: jorge.sacido@usc.es
Seminar: Carolina Amador-Moreno “Sure he does be always telling me my heart is too near my mouth: Irish English discourse markers in perspective”
18 noviembre, 2020
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The Research Network English Linguistics Circle (ELC; https://elc.org.es/), generously supported by the Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Universidade of the Regional Government of Galicia and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through grants R2014/016 (2014–2015), FFI2014-51873-REDT (2014–2016), ED431D 2017/09 (2017–2019) and ED431B 2020/01 (2020–2022), among others, and by SEFORIN (Seminario de Formación e Innovación, Facultade de Filoloxía), announces the following seminar, to be held via Microsoft Teams:
Professor Carolina Amador-Moreno
University of Bergen / University of Extremadura
Title: “Sure he does be always telling me my heart is too near my mouth: Irish English discourse markers in perspective”
Date: Thursday, 26 November 2020
Time: 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Seminario Carolina Amador-Moreno_Irish English discourse markers in perspective
Ana Rita Sá Leite Dias “On the syntactic vs. lexical nature of grammatical gender: the Gender Acquisition and Processing (GAP) hypothesis”
9 noviembre, 2020
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Por iniciativa de la Red de Investigación English Linguistics Circle (ELC), nos complace anunciar el siguiente seminario online, via Microsoft Teams:
Ana Rita Sá Leite Dias
“On the syntactic vs. lexical nature of grammatical gender: the Gender Acquisition and Processing (GAP) hypothesis”
Fecha y hora: miércoles 11 de noviembre, 5 pm – 6:30 pm
La inscripción es gratis. Las personas interesadas en conectarse online pueden dirigirse por correo electrónico a Lidia Gómez García (lidiagogar@gmail.com), indicando su nombre completo (para poder emitir el certificado).
Esta actividad es posible gracias al apoyo del Gobierno Autónomo de Galicia (ayudas ED431C 2017/50, ED431B 2018/05, ED431B 2019/20 y ED431B 2020/01) y de la Agencia Estatal de Investigación del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (ayudas FFI2016-77018-P, FFI2017-86884-P, FFI2017-82162-P, PGC2018-093622-B100 y PID2019-110583GB-100).
