RODRÍGUEZ-ABRUÑEIRAS, PAULA

Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras obtained an MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Santiago de Compostela in June 2006. In September 2008 she joined the Department of English and German at Santiago de Compostela on a four-year FPU grant from the Spanish Ministry for Education and Science; she completed her PhD in English Linguistics, under the supervision of María José López-Couso, in January 2015.

Paula has carried out research at the Department of English of the University of Helsinki (September 2007-May 2008), at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of the University of Manchester (September-November 2009), at the Department of English of the University of Freiburg (September-December 2010), and at the British Library (July 2011), on an ESSE bursary. In November 2009 she received one of the annual awards granted to junior investigators by AEDEAN, the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies.

From August 2013 to May 2015 Paula was an assistant of Spanish at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she also completed a two-year M.A. Degree in Spanish. On 1 May 2015 she received the Premio Gabriela Mistral, awarded by Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, to outstanding graduate or undergraduate students of Spanish.

Between September 2015 and January 2016, Paula held a visiting lecturer position at the Department of English, French and German of the University of Vigo. In February 2016 she joined the Department of English and German at the University of Valencia, on a position as Lecturer ('ayudante doctor') in English.

Paula has recently developed an interest in research on New Englishes, and has now joined the ViEW team (‘Variation in English Worldwide’) directed by Elena Seoane at the University of Vigo.

Contact information:

Department of English and German
University of Valencia
Avda. Blasco Ibañez, 32
E-46010 València, SPAIN
E-mail: paula.rodriguez@uv.es
Phone: +34 963864100 ext. 95033
Office: 48 (6th floor)

MA Dissertation (Spanish), 16 April 2015: De función adverbial a marcador del discurso: Origen, gramaticalización y uso actual de en plan (de) en el español peninsular. Supervisor: Kathleen Wheatley.

PhD Dissertation (English Linguistics), 20 January 2015: Exemplifying markers in English: Synchronic and diachronic considerations (European Doctorate). Supervisor: María José López-Couso. Examiners: Professors Teresa Fanego (University of Santiago de Compostela), J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña (University of Santiago de Compostela), Augusto Soares da Silva (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Braga), Javier Pérez-Guerra (University of Vigo), Cristina Suárez-Gómez (University of the Balearic Islands).

Publications:

(2014) "Enfermedad, identidad y simbolismo en Salón de belleza, de Mario Bellatin". Letras (Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima) vol. 85, no. 122: 237-246.

(2013). Review of Manfred Markus, Yoko Iyeiri, Reinhard Heuberger & Emil Chamson, eds. Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics. A multi-dimensional approach (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 50; Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2012). ICAME Journal 37: 229-235.

(2012). “Exemplifying constructions with for example and for instance as markers: A historical account". In Corpus linguistics and variation in English: Theory and description, ed. by Joybrato Mukherjee & Magnus Huber. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 155-163.

(2012). "From full verbal forms to markers of exemplification: Including and included as a case of grammaticalisation?". In New trends and methodologies in applied English language research II: Studies in variation, meaning and learning, ed. by David Tizón-Couto, Beatriz Tizón-Couto, Iria Pastor-Gómez & Paula Rodríguez-Puente. (Linguistic Insights Series). Bern, etc.: Peter Lang, 125-141.

(2011). "Apposition vs. exemplification with including and included as markers: Same or different categories?" In Current trends in anglophone studies: Cultural, linguistic and literary research, ed. by F.Javier Ruano García, María Jesús Fernández Gil, Miriam Borham Puyal, María José Díez García, Santiago Bautista Martín, Pedro Álvarez Mosquera & Blanca García Riaza. (Colección Aquilafuente 172). Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, pp. 121-130. ISBN: 978-84-7800-157-6.

(2010). ”Including and included as markers of exemplification: A diachronic study”. In Proceedings of the 33rd AEDEAN International Conference, ed. by Rafael Galán Moya et al. Cádiz: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cádiz, pp. 267-278.

(2010). “For example and for instance as markers of exemplification in Present-day English: A corpus-based study”. In Language windowing through corpora, ed. by Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel et al. A Coruña: Servizo de Publicacións da Universidade de A Coruña, pp. 747-758.

Conference presentations:

See the entry Presentations on this website.