Jesús Romero-Trillo

Publications and Talks

Publications and Talks

Editor-in-Chief of  ‘Corpus Pragmatics’, Springer

Editor-in-Chief of the ‘Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics’, Springer

Review Editor of ‘Intercultural Pragmatics’, Mouton de Gruyter

Edited volumes

  1. Romero-Trillo, J. (ed) (2023) The Cambridge Handbook of Language and Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. Romero-Trillo, J. (ed.) (2016) The Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2016: Global implications for culture and society in the networked age. Dordrecht: Springer.
  3. Romero-Trillo, J. (ed.) (2015) The Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2015: current approaches to discourse and translation studies. Dordrecht: Springer
  4. Romero-Trillo, J. (ed.) (2014) The Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2014: new empirical and theoretical paradigms. Dordrecht: Springer
  5. Kecskes, I. & Romero-Trillo, J.  (eds) (2013) Research Trends in Intercultural Pragmatics. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter. Reviewed in Boston University Applied Linguistics Journal, Linguist List
  6. Romero-Trillo, J. (ed.) (2013) The Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2013: new Domains and Methodologies. Dordrecht: Springer.
  7. Romero-Trillo, J. (ed.) (2012) Pragmatics, Prosody and English Language Teaching. Dordrecht: Springer. Reviewed in Journal of Pragmatics 44 (2012) 1716-1719, ELT Journal (2014) 68 202-205, Pragmatics Reviews (2013). vol 1:2
  8. Romero-Trillo, J. (ed.) (2008) Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics: A Mutualistic Entente Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, New York

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

  1. Odiegwu, N.Ch. and J. Romero-Trillo (2024) Gradience in iconicity: evidence from total reduplicative constructions in Nigerian Pidgin. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 22: 124-150
  2. Odiegwu, N. Ch. and J. Romero-Trillo (2023) Morphopragmatic analysis of reduplication in Nigerian Pidgin. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 38: 263-289.
  3. Romero-Trillo, J. and I. Rozina (2023) “Is there justice in this world? A cross-cultural pragmatic analysis of the conceptualization of ‘justice’. Journal of Multicultural Discourses 18: 62-77
  4. Attia, S. and J. Romero-Trillo (2022) A corpus-assisted discourse study of the media language in the Egyptian revolution. Language, Discourse and Society 10: 105-126
  5. Gladkova, A. and J. Romero-Trillo (2021) The linguistic conceptualization in folk aesthetics: past, present and future. International Journal of Language and Culture 8: 1-13.
  6. Gladkova, A.  and Jesus Romero-Trillo (2021) Is ugliness in the mind of the beholder?: The conceptualization of ‘ugly’ in English. International Journal of Language and Culture 8: 107-128.
  7. Romero-Trillo, J. (2021) Everything is beautiful… in its own way? The conceptualization of aesthetics in Spanish. International Journal of Language and Culture 8: 148-169.
  8. Mayor-Goicoechea, C. and J.Romero-Trillo (2020) ‘They cowardly attack us, so we nobly eliminate them’…: A linguistic analysis of the ‘translocal-group’ in the propaganda of the Islamic State .  Pragmatics and Society 11: 293-316.
  9. Madella, P. and J.Romero-Trillo (2019) Prosodic Pointing in inferential comprehension: the application of Relevance Theory to L2 listening instruction. Letronica 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2019.4.34157
  10. Romero-Trillo, J. (2019) Prosodic pragmatics and feedback in intercultural communication. Journal of Pragmatics 151: 91-102 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2019.02.018
  11. Romero-Trillo, J. (2018) Corpus pragmatics and second language pragmatics: a mutualistic entente in theory and practice. Corpus Pragmatics 2: 113-127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41701-018-0031-5
  12. Romero-Trillo, J. (2018) A review of “Metaphor and Intercultural Communication”. (Musolff, Andreas; MacArthur, Fiona and Pagani, Giulio (eds). Review of Cognitive Linguistics 16: 299-303.
  13. Romero-Trillo, J. (2018) Prosodic modelling and position analysis of pragmatic markers in English conversation. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory  14: 169-195.DOI: 10.1515/cllt-2014-0026
  14. Romero-Trillo, J. (2017) Editorial. Corpus Pragmatics 1: 1-2.
  15. Romero-Trillo, J and S. Attia (2016) Framing the ideological outcomes of the Tunisian Revolution through the eyes of the Arab and Western media. Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 12: 177-213
  16. Romero-Trillo, J. and T. Espigares (2015) Cognitive and linguistic factors affecting the selection of landscapes in the Corpus of Language and Nature. Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science 2: 157-159.
  17. Romero-Trillo, J. (2015) Understanding vagueness: a prosodic analysis of endocentric and exocentric general extenders in English conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 86: 54-62.
  18. Romero-Trillo, J. (2015) ‘It is a truth universally acknowledged’…you know? The role of adaptive management and prosody to start a turn in conversation. Pragmatics and Society 6: 117-145.
  19. Romero-Trillo, J. (2014) A review of “Understanding Pragmatic Markers: A Variational Approach” (Karin Aijmer). Journal of Pragmatics 74: 30-32. 
  20. Romero-Trillo, J. and C. Cheshire (2014) The linguistic (dis)articulation of national identities vis-à-vis the Scottish referendum of independence. Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 10: 41-60.
  21. Romero-Trillo, J. (2014) A review of “Intercultural Pragmatics” (Istvan Kecskes). Applied Linguistics 35: 621-624.
  22. Gladkova, A. & Romero-Trillo, J. (2014) Ain’t it beautiful? The conceptualization of beauty from an ethnopragmatic perspective. Journal of Pragmatics 60: 140-159. 
  23. Romero-Trillo, J.  & Espigares, T. (2012) The cognitive representation of natural landscapes in language. Pragmatics and Cognition 20: 168-185
  24. Romero-Trillo, J. (2012) Pragmatic triangulation and misunderstanding: a prosodic perspective, in Linguistics and the Human Sciences 6: 43-53
  25. Romero-Trillo, J. (2012) A review of “Corpora: Pragmatics and Discourse” (A. Jucker, D. Schreier y M. Hundt).  Functions of Language 19: 96-104
  26. Romero-Trillo, J.  & Lenn, E. (2011) Do you (mis)understand what I mean. Journal of English Studies 9: 235-253
  27. Romero-Trillo, J. & Maguire, L. (2011) Adaptive Context: the fourth element of meaning.  International Review of Pragmatics 3: 228-241
  28. Romero-Trillo, J. (2011) The Representation of Liminality Conflicts in the Media. Journal of Multicultural Discourses 6, 143 -158
  29. Riesco Bernier, S. & Romero-Trillo, J. (2008) The acoustics of “newness” and its pragmatic implications in classroom discourse. Journal of Pragmatics40: 1103 – 1116
  30. Romero-Trillo, J. (2007)  Adaptive management in discourse: The case of involvement discourse markers in English and Spanish. Catalan Journal of Linguistics 6: 81-94
  31. Llinares García, A. & Romero-Trillo, J. (2007) Getting personal, native speaker and EFL pre-school children’s use of the personal function International Journal of Applied Linguistics:  17: 198- 213
  32. Ramírez Verdugo, D. & Romero-Trillo, J. (2005) The pragmatic function of intonation in L2 discourse: English tag questions used by Spanish speakers. Intercultural Pragmatics  2: 151-168
  33. Romero-Trillo, J. &  Llinares, A. (2004) Prosodic competence in reading aloud: an acoustic corpus-based study of native and non-native (Spanish) speakers of English. Estudios ingleses de la Universidad Complutense 12: 63-77
  34. Romero-Trillo, J. (2003) A review of “Situation-Bound Utterances in L1 and L2” (Istvan Kesckes). 2003. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Linguistlist.org
  35. Romero-Trillo, Jesús (2002) The sympathetic circularity function in English: an intonation corpus-driven analysis Revista Complutense de Estudios Ingleses 10: 87-112
  36. Romero-Trillo, Jesús (2002) A review of “Foreign Language and Mother Tongue” (Istvan Kecskés and Tünde Papp) Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers, NJ and London, 2000. Journal of Pragmatics : 34 615-618
  37. Romero-Trillo, Jesús (2002) The pragmatic fossilization of discourse markers in non-native speakers of English. Journal of Pragmatics  34: 769-784
  38. Romero-Trillo, Jesús & Llinares García, Ana (2001) Communicative Constraints in EFL Pre-School Settings: A Corpus-Based Approach International Journal of Corpus Linguistics: 6-1: 27- 46
  39. Romero-Trillo, Jesús (2001) A mathematical model for the analysis of variation in discourse Journal of Linguistics 37:  527-550
  40. Romero-Trillo, Jesús (2000) Systemic tools to establish appropriacy in discourse: the case of interjections in English and Spanish conversations Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 40: 59 -75
  41. Romero-Trillo, Jesús (1997) Your attention please. Pragmatic mechanisms to obtain the addressee’s attention in English and Spanish conversations Journal of Pragmatics 28: 205-221
  42. Romero-Trillo, Jesús (1994) Ahm, Ehm…You Call It Theme? A Thematic Approach To Spoken English Journal of Pragmatics 22: 495- 509
  43. Romero-Trillo, Jesús (1993) The role of context in the analysis of scientific discourse, in A. Gimeno (ed.) ESP Studies, vol. 1. 153-162. Valencia: Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
  44. Romero-Trillo, Jesús (1993) Reading Aloud and the Structure of Information. Revista Complutense de Estudios Ingleses 1, 133-142

Book chapters (peer-reviewed)

  1. Romero-Trillo, J. and Y. Sadeghi (2023) Prosodic pragmatics and context, in Romero-Trillo, J. The Cambridge Handbook of Language and Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. Romero-Trillo, J. and Y. Sadeghi (2023) Pragmatic Markers. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell-Wiley. ISBN 9781119147367 https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0929.pub2
  3. Romero-Trillo, J. (2022) Corpus pragmatics: corpus-based intercultural pragmatic research, in Kecskes, I. The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 510 – 524.
  4. Mestre, E. and J. Romero-Trillo (2021) Expressing opinions and emotions while travelling on-line. A corpus-pragmatic approach, in D.Silva and J.Mey The Pragmatics of Adaptability. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 235-258.
  5. Romero-Trillo, J. and P. Gozalo. (2020) Corpus Pragmatics, in Koike, D. and C. Félix-Brasdefer  The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics. London: Routledge. 545-565.
  6. Romero-Trillo, J (2017) Acategorical Pragmatic Markers: From Thematic Analysis to Adaptive Management in Discourse. In R.Giora and M. Haugh.   Doing Intercultural Pragmatics: Cognitive, Linguistic and Sociopragmatic Perspectives on Language Use.  Boston/Berlin. De Gruyter. 255-268.
  7. Romero-Trillo, J. and V. Fuentes (2017). What is pretty cannot be beautiful? A corpus-based analysis of the aesthetics of nature, in J. Blochowiak, C. Grisot, S. Durrleman-Tame, C. Laenzlinger (eds.), Formal models in the study of language. Dordrecht: Springer. 415-430.
  8. Maguire, L. and J.Romero-Trillo (2017) Adaptive Management and bilingual education: A longitudinal corpus-based analysis of pragmatic markers in teacher talk. In Istvan Kecskes and Stavros Assimakopoulos (eds.) Current Issues in Intercultural Pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 347-365.
  9. Romero-Trillo, J. and N. Avila-Ledesma (2016) The ethnopragmatic representation of positive and negative emotions in Irish immigrant’s letters, in K. Allan, A. Capone and I.Kecskes. Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use. Dordrecht: Springer. 393-420.
  10. Romero-Trillo, J. (2016) Introduction. The Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2016: Global implications for culture and society in the networked age. Dordrecht: Springer. 1-4.
  11. Romero-Trillo, J. (2015) Current Approaches of Corpus Pragmatics on Discourse and Translation Studies, an Introduction. In J. Romero-Trillo The Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2015: current approaches to discourse and translation studies. Dordrecht: Springer: 1-4.
  12. Romero-Trillo, J. and N. Avila. 2015. Reflections on the interface between Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics: An interview with Istvan Kecskes. Boletín AELINCO 2: 4-8.
  13. Romero-Trillo, J. (2014) New empirical and theoretical paradigms in corpus pragmatics, an introduction. In J. Romero-Trillo (ed.) The Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2014. Dordrecht: Springer. 1-4.
  14. Romero-Trillo, J. (2014) ‘Pragmatic punting’ and prosody: Evidence from corpora. In Gómez González, M.A. et al. (eds) The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse: Applications and Implications.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins: 209-221.
  15. Kecskes, I. & Romero-Trillo, J.  (2013) Introduction in Kecskes, I & J. Romero-Trillo (eds) Research Trends in Intercultural Pragmatics. Berlin: de Gruyter: 1-3
  16. Romero-Trillo, J. (2013) How shall I call you? Language and identity in conflict management, in Díaz Pérez, F. J., Díez Bedmar, M. B., Rascón Moreno, D. and García Ramírez, P. (eds). Global issues and the teaching of Language, Linguistics, Literature and Translation. Peter Lang: 81-98.
  17. Romero-Trillo, J. (2013) Pragmatic triangulation and misunderstanding: a prosodic perspective, in Taboada, M., Doval Suárez, S. and Elsa González (eds) (2nd ed.) Contrastive Discourse Analysis: Functional and Corpus Perspectives. Sheffield: Equinox.
  18. Maguire, L. & Romero-Trillo, J. (2013) Context dynamism in classroom discourse, in Kecskes, I. & Romero-Trillo, J.  (eds) Research Trends in Intercultural Pragmatics. Berlin: de Gruyter: 145-160.
  19. Romero Trillo, J. (2013) Introduction. In Romero-Trillo (2013) Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics: New domains and methodologies in Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics research. Dortdrech: Springer. 1-8
  20. Romero Trillo, J. (2013) Corpus of Language and Nature: a tool for the study of the relationship between cognition and emotions in language. In. Romero-Trillo, J. (ed.) Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2013: New domains and methodologies. Dortdrech: Springer. 203-222.
  21. Romero-Trillo, J. & Lenn, E. (2012) Overt and rhetorical mechanisms to encourage understanding in conversation, in Fernández Anaya, L (ed) (Im)politeness and interpersonal Communication. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 176-183.
  22. Romero-Trillo, J. (2012) Pragmatic Markers. In Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell-Wiley: 4522–4528.
  23. Romero-Trillo, J. (2012) Introduction, in Romero-Trillo, J. (ed.) Pragmatics, Prosody and English Language Teaching. Dortdrech: Springer. 1-8
  24. Romero-Trillo, J. & Newell, J. (2012) Prosody and feedback in native and non-native speakers of English   in Romero-Trillo, J. (ed.) Pragmatics, Prosody and English Language Teaching. Dortdrech: Springer. 117-132.
  25. Romero-Trillo, J. (2012) Teaching prosody with a pragmatic orientation, a synthesis, in Romero-Trillo, J. (ed.) Pragmatics, Prosody and English Language Teaching. Dordrecht: Springer. 231-234.
  26. Romero- Trillo, J. (2012) The identity narratives, in The Slippery Slope to Genocide: Reducing Identity Conflicts and Preventing Mass Murder, Mark Anstey, Paul Meerts, & I William Zartman (eds) New York: Oxford University Press: 72-84
  27. Romero-Trillo, J. (2009) Discourse markers, in Mey, J. (ed). Concise Encylopedia of Pragmatics (2nd ed.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 191-194.
  28. Llinares García, A. & Romero-Trillo, J.  (2008) The pragmatic role of discourse markers of native and non-native teachers in CLIL contexts. Romero-Trillo, J. (ed) Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics: A Mutualistic Entente: 191-204
  29. Romero-Trillo, J. (2008) Introduction. Romero-Trillo, J. (ed) Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics: A Mutualistic Entente: 1-10
  30. Riesco Bernier, S  & Romero-Trillo, J. (2008)  What does the tonic say in pre-school teacher talk in the EFL classroom? An acoustic-based analysis of tonicity ‘Institutional Discourse in Cross-Cultural Contexts‘ Ronald Geluykens & Bettina Kraft (eds) LINCOM EUROPA (München): 147-165
  31. Llinares García, A. & Romero-Trillo, J. (2006) The role of discourse markers in EFL instruction. A Pleasure of Life in Words, a Festschrisft for Angela Downing, vol II: 163 -176  Univ. Complutense: Madrid
  32. Romero-Trillo, J. (2006) Discourse Markers. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics: 639-641. Oxford: Elsevier.
  33. Romero Trillo, J. (2006) Language and culture-less societies: the struggle for the cultural identity of gypsies in Spain.  General and Theoretical Papers of the Linguistic LAUD Agency/ Universität Duisburg-Essen 639: 1-9.
  34. Romero-Trillo, Jesús (2004) Subjective and objective grounding in discourse markers: A cross-linguistic corpus-driven approach, in Aijmer, K. (ed) Dialogue Analysis VIII: Understanding and Misunderstanding in Dialogue  Dordrecht: Niemeyer. 185-197
  35. Llinares García, Ana & Romero-Trillo, Jesús (2001) A corpus driven analysis of communicative discourse functions in classroom contexts Trabajos en Lingüística Aplicada: 575-583. Barcelona: Univerbook
  36. Romero-Trillo, J. & Maguire, L. (2001) Yes/no questions vs. Wh-questions: comparing frequency in schools in Madrid, en Iglesias Rábade, L. & S. Doval Studies in Contrastive Linguistics. Universidad de Santiago: 917-924.
  37. Llinares García, Ana & Romero-Trillo, Jesús (2001) Duration and information structure in unmarked tonicity: the case of reported clauses in tales read aloud to children La Lingüística Aplicada a Finales del Siglo XX. Ensayos y Propuestas: 563- 567 Universidad Alcalá de Henares.
  38. Romero-Trillo, J. (2000) Los procesos de gramaticalización desde una perspectiva discursiva. En F. Ruíz de Mendoza et al. (eds). Perspectivas Aplicadas de la Organización del Conocimiento y del Procesamiento y Uso del Lenguaje. Ed. Universidad de la Rioja: 361-374.
  39. Romero-Trillo, J. (1998) Uso nativo y no nativo de los elementos continuativos en inglés en función de feedback. En Vázquez, I. & I. Guillén, Perspectivas Pragmáticas en Lingüística Aplicada. Zaragoza: ANUBAR: 247-253.
  40. Romero-Trillo, J. & T. Espigares (1996) Factores ecológico-lingüísticos en la percepción de los paisajes naturales, en Caramés, J.L., Escobedo de Tapia, C and J.L. Bueno (eds.). La Interdisciplinariedad en el Discurso Artístico II.Oviedo: Universidad de Oviedo: 271-285.
  41. Romero-Trillo, J. (1996) A pragmatic approach to Joyce’s short story “Clay”. En Fernández-Corugedo S.G. (ed.) Many Sundry Wits Gathered Together.Universidade da Coruña: 281-296.
  42. Romero-Trillo, J. (1993) The present state of studies on theme in Systemic Functional Grammar (with Angela Downing, Rachel Whittaker and Soledad Pérez de Ayala), en Ruíz de Mendoza, F. & J. Cunchillos (eds.) Actas XV Congreso AEDEAN. Universidad de La Rioja.: 319-324.

Invited/Plenary talks

  1. Prosodic Pragmatics and Emotions in the life-stories of migrants and refugees. London City University. London. 2023
  2. “Life is a journey” (literally): Conflict and emotion in the narratives of migrants and refugees. King’s College London. 2023.
  3. A passion for research: prosodic pragmatics in action. Birbeck College (University of London). 2022.
  4. Intercultural Pragmatics in a Conflictive World: practical implications. CIVIS Summer School. University of Stockholm. 2022
  5. La acogida a los refugiados afganos en el marco de los procesos de asilo y refugio de la Unión Europea. La UE ante su espejo: su papel en la crisis de Afganistán. ¿Cambios a futuro?. Comunidad de Madrid. 2022
  6. Intercultural Pragmatics in a Conflictive World: a theoretical approach. CIVIS conference. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. 2022.
  7. The role of Intercultural Pragmatics in the Integration of Migrant and Refugees. CIVIS  workshop. Universidad de Bucarest. 2022.
  8. Who are you to talk to me like that? Language and Identity in Conflict Management.  V Jornadas Filosofía y Ciencias del Lenguaje. UAM.2021.
  9. Towards a definition of Prosodic Pragmatics. International Conference on English Language, Linguistics and Literature (The ENGLISHERS’ ICELLL-1). Ankara. 2021
  10. Bridging the gap between pragmatics and prosody in L1 and L2 interaction. Linguistics Seminar. University of Lisbon. 2020
  11. Prosodic Pragmatics: an essential tool for understanding L1 and L2 speech in context. M.A. Programme in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. Universitat Pompeu i Fabra. 2020
  12. (Mis)understanding emotions: a prosodic pragmatic approach. (Seminar: Subjectivity in language use and discourse: from figurative language to constructions). Universidad de la Rioja. 2019
  13. Understanding nature, understanding beauty: A proposal for the study of aesthetics in language. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 2019
  14. Corpus pragmatics and prosody in L1-L2 interaction … or how to avoid misunderstanding, if you want …Exploring and Assessing Pragmatic Aspects of L1 and L2 Communication: From Needs Analysis through Monitoring to Feedback. University of Padova. 2018
  15. Prosody and pragmatic markers in L2 English: the struggle against pragmatic fossilisation. Methodological approaches to studying Discourse Markers in the L2. University of Siegen (Germany). 2018
  16. Language and emotions in the discourse of refugees and migrants: a research agenda. International Conference on ICT as an effective tool for integration of immigrants and prevention of ESL in the European school education. Comunidad de Madrid- Erasmus + Project. 2018
  17. Pragmática Intercultural y Pragmática de Corpus: dos nuevos paradigmas de análisis lingüístico. Universidad de Jaén. 2017.
  18. Prosodic Pragmatics, a modern (but classic) research agenda. Seminari del Grup d’Estudis del Discurs (GED). Universitat Pompeu Fabra. 2017.
  19. The pragmatics of prosody, the prosody of pragmatics. Séminaire de Recherche en Linguistique  University of Geneva (Switzerland)  2016
  20. On the prosodic nature of English Pragmatic Markers. Universidad Santiago de Compostela (Spain) 2016.
  21. Workshop on Current Issues in the Pragmatic-Prosodic Interface of Discourse Markers. I Jornadas Internacionales Seminario de Formación e Innovación para Estudiantes de Máster de la Facultad de Filología. Universidad Santiago de Compostela (Spain) 2016.
  22. Current approaches to Intercultural Pragmatics. UPCEL 2015: Social, Cognitive and Functional Perspective. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) 2015.
  23. The Cognitive Representation of Natural Landscapes in Language. Univerzity Palackého (Olomouc- Czech Republic) 2014
  24. Experimental Corpus Linguistics. Univerzity Palackého (Olomouc- Czech Republic) 2014
  25. The Corpus of Language and Nature: An ethnopragmatic approach to the representation of landscapes. Séminaire de Recherche en Linguistique  University of Geneva (Switzerland)  2014
  26. Cognition, emotion and the contemplation of nature. International Conference on Meaning, Context and Cognition. University of Lodz (Poland)  2012
  27. Can the perception of nature be explained through linguistic universals? Seminar on Linguistic Models at the Department of Educational Theory and Practice. State University of New York at Albany (USA)     2012
  28. The representation of landscape universals in language. Centre for Applied Linguistics. University of Limerick (Ireland) 2011
  29. Reading the semantics of landscapes across cultures. Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Research Centre. Mary Immaculate College. Limerick (Ireland) 2011
  30. Managing (mis)Communications in conversation.“Workshop on Idiomacity and Discourse”. University of Stockholm (Sweden)  2011
  31. CLAN Project: Cognición, representación y semántica del paisaje.  “Seminario de Postgrado de Español y Portugués”. University of Stockholm (Sweden) 2011
  32. Language and nature: The Clan Corpus. Seminar on Corpus Linguistics. University of Gothenburg  (Sweden)  2011
  33. By word of Mouth and Eye: Media Discourse and Conflict Escalation in India and Pakistan”. Third International Conference on Multicultural Discourses. Hangzhou (China)  2010
  34. Language awareness and language teachers (roundtable with Michael Hoey, Gwyneth Fox, Jane Willis, Martin Beagles and Anne McCabe). 20th Congress TESOL-Spain. Universidad Complutense Madrid (Spain) 1997
  35. El análisis del discurso en el marco de la enseñanza e investigación de las lenguas (roundtable with Angela Downing, José Simón, Juana Marín and J.L. Otal). XVI Congreso Nacional de AESLA. Universidad de la Rioja (Spain) 1998.

Conference presentations

  1. A closer look on reduplication in Nigerian Pidgin. Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages. 2022 (with Nancy Odiegwu)
  2. On the complexity of total reduplication: Evidence from Nigerian
    Pidgin. V Jornadas Filosofía y Ciencias del Lenguaje. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. 2021 (with Nancy Odiegwu)
  3. The morphopragmatics of reduplication in Nigerian English. 9 EPICS conference. Universitad Pablo de Olavide. 2020 (with Nancy Odiegwu)
  4. Return to sender? The conceptualisation of emotions in written correspondence from the NSM perspectiveDisentangling positive emotions in nineteenth-century Irish epistolar discourse. Cultural Semantics in the North 2019. Aarhus University (with Nancy Avila-Ledesma)
  5. Happiness in Nineteenth Century Ireland. Trinity College Dublin (with Nancy Avila-Ledesma)
  6. The pragmatics of prosodic pointing: the application of relevance theory to L2 prosody awareness.  INPRA 2018. University of Cyprus (with Pauline Madella)
  7. “We need you and you need us”. The third actor in ISIS linguistic polarization” EPICS 2018. Universidad de Sevilla. (Spain) (with Cristina Mayor Goicoechea)
  8. “Beautiful and ugly in the English folkaesthetics”.  EPICS 2018. Universidad de Sevilla (Spain) (with Anna Gladkova)
  9. “Everything is beautiful… in  its ownway? The conceptualisation of aesthetics in Spanish”. EPICS 2018. Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
  10. Delving into the linguistic world of the Islamic State. UPCEL 2017: Language in Society. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) (with Cristina Mayor Goicoechea)
  11. The pragmatics of prosody in intercultural communication, 17 IPRA Conference. Belfast University (UK). 2017
  12. “Disentangling the discourse of hate in the propaganda of the Islamic State” Interdisciplinary Conference on Hate Speech: Definitions, Interpretations and Practices. University of Cyprus 2017.  (with Cristina Mayor Goicoechea).
  13. “…Being independent in the modern model means independent in an interdependent world”. Contextualising identity conflict in Scotland in the media. (with Caroline Cheshire). AESLA Conference 2017. Universidad de Jaén.
  14. Resetting Scottish national identity in the post-referendum era: A corpus-based approach (with Caroline Cheshire). BAAL Conference 2016. Anglia Ruskin University
  15. Prosodic Patterns of Pragmatic Markers in Native and Non-Native Englishes. ESSE 2016 Conference. National University of Ireland Galway (Ireland). 
  16. The orientation function of prosody and position in the study of context of pragmatic markers in English speech. 7th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication (INPRA). University of Split (Croatia). 2016
  17. Beauty and the beast: ‘aesthetics’ opposites across three languages. (with Anna Gladkova). Research on Languages and Linguistics at Sussex (UK). 2016
  18. “I am exceedingly pleased at coming to this land of plenty”… Exploring happiness-like concepts in pre-Famine and Famine Irish emigrants’ personal correspondence (with Nancy Avila-Ledesma). IVACS Symposium: Corpus, Discourse and Beyond. UPF (Spain). 2016.
  19. The emotions of the departed: A corpus-based analysis of Irish emigrants’ letters (with Nancy Avila-Ledesma). International Conference Atlantic Communities: Translation, Mobility, Hospitality. University of Vigo (Spain). 2015
  20. The endocentric and exocentric function of pragmatic markers in speech: from thematic analysis to adaptive management in discourse. 16 IPRA Conference. University of Antwerp (Belgium). 2015
  21. Language, emotions and computer-mediated communication in the era of adaptation (with Eva Mestre-Mestre). 16 IPRA Conference. University of Antwerp (Belgium). 2015.
  22. Expressing emotions while travelling on-line. A pragmatic approach (with Eva Mestre-Mestre). 33rd. AESLA International Conference. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) 2015.
  23. “I am much pleased with this part of the world…”: Exploring the Ethnopragmatic Conceptualization of Happiness and Sadness in Irish Emigrants’ Personal Correspondence. 7th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (with Nancy Avila-Ledesma). Universidad de Valladolid (Spain) 2015.
  24. Bilingual Education and the Development of Context Awareness: a Longitudinal corpus based study (with Laura Maguire). 6th International Intercultural Pragmatics Conference. University of Malta (Malta)              2014
  25. ‘Beautiful’!: An ethnopragmatic corpus-based analysis of the perception of nature in native and non-Native English (with Violeta Fuentes).  6 International Conference on Corpus Linguistics. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)  2014.
  26. A cross-cultural analysis of multilingual speakers in CLAN (Corpus of Language and Nature): Cross-Cultural Pragmatics at a Crossroads III. University of East Anglia (UK) 2013
  27. Cognitive and linguistic preferences in the selection of natural landscapes in the CLAN-Project. British Association of Applied Linguistics Conference. Heriot-Watt University (UK) 2013
  28. Identity and independence in the press, the case of Scotland (with Caroline Cheshire). 1st Bydgoszcz Symposium Discursive Constructions of Europe. Universidad de Bydgoszcz (Poland) 2013
  29. The semantics of aesthetics vocabulary in a contrastive perspective (with Anna Gladkova). 45 Conference of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Stockholm University (Sweden) 2012
  30. Nature, language and emotions, an intercultural corpus. IVACS Conference. University of Leeds (UK) 2012
  31. Cognition, emotion and nature: an intercultural approach. 5th International Intercultural Pragmatics Conference University of Charlotte (North Carolina, USA) 2012
  32. CLAN Project: the representation of landscape universals in language (with Riesco, Díez-Bedmar, Vidal, Gladkova, Gerdes & Espigares). 3 International Conference on Corpus Linguistics. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia 2011
  33. The Prosodic realization of Pragmatic Markers in the LINDSEI Corpus. AEDEAN 2011. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (Spain) 2011
  34. Towards a grammar of the description of landscapes in language. Reading Nature Conference. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. (Spain) 2011
  35. Pragmatic strategies to avoid misunderstanding in English and Spanish Conversations (with Elizabeth Lenn) IV Encuentros sobre Pragmática Intercultural, Cognitiva y Social (EPICS IV). Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Spain) 2010
  36. Pragmatic markers as repair initiators in conversation, evidence from corpora. Fifth Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies International Conference. The University of Edinburgh (UK) 2010
  37. Understanding figurative and literal language (with Laura Maguire). 4th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication. Madrid (Spain) 2010
  38. “Discourse markers in CLIL learners”. 3rd International Conference of Intercultural Pragmatics. Stellenbosch (South Africa) 2008
  39. “Discourse markers and the language teacher” (with Ana Llinares). 15 EUROSLA Dubrovnik (Croatia)   2005
  40. “Interaction in L2 discourse: a pragmatic perspective from the choice of tone and tonicity” (with Dolores Ramírez Verdugo). 14 EUROSLA. San Sebastián   (Spain) 2004
  41. “Tonicity and the status of information: a functional analysis of new information in pre-school teacher talk” (with Ana Llinares). 29th International Systemic Functional Congress. Universidad de Liverpool   (UK) 2002
  42. “The influence of tonicity in the information structure of non-native speakers of English in a classroom context” (with Silvia Riesco). Conference on the Pragmatics of Interlanguage English. University of  Münster (Germany)  2002
  43. The pragmatic “dis-functions” of discourse markers in non-native speakers of English (with Ana Llinares). Congress of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis University of Göteburg (Sweden) 2001
  44. Yes/No questions vs Wh-questions in English: comparing and constrasting frequency in three schools of Madrid (with Laura Maguire) 2nd International Contrastive Linguistics Conference. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Spain) 2001
  45. “Prosodic fossilization and rhythm in non-native speakers of English” (with Nora Servidio) 2nd International Contrastive Linguistics Conference. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Spain) 2001
  46. Un enfoque funcional en el desarrollo del bilingüismo (with Ana Llinares). Currículos integrados para el aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras. MEC- (Centro Recursos Pedagógicos Alcalá de Henares) (Spain) 2000
  47. A cognitive approach to given and new information in Discourse. Asociación Española de Lingüística Cognitiva. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) 2000
  48. Pragmatic Fossilization in L2: A functional approach. 7th International Pragmatic Conference. University of Budapest (Hungary) 2000
  49. The realization of ideational meaning by EFL-Learners: a systemic-functional analysis in spoken corpora. (with Ana Llinares) Eleventh Euro.International Systemic Functional Linguistics Workshop: Systemic Functional Linguistics, Computing and Corpus Studies . University of Glasgow (UK) 2000
  50. Reading children’s tales aloud: prosodic and pragmatic inaccuracies (with Ana Llinares García). 22 TESOL-Spain Conference. Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (Spain) 1999
  51. Modelling Appropriacy in Discourse. 25 International Systemic Functional Congress. University of Cardiff (UK) 1998
  52. The role of corpus studies in the modelling of pragmatic competence. International Congress on Learners’ Corpora (with Ana Llinares). Hong Kong University 1998
  53. Involvement and repetition in conversation: towards a poetics of talk. 20 TESOL Spain Conference. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)  1997
  54. Prosodic context in conversation. 8th. Euro-International Systemic Functional Workshop. Nottingham-Trent University (UK) 1996
  55. Hacia una caracterización discursiva de la taxonomía lingüística. XIV Congreso Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada. Universidad Rovira i Virgili (Spain) 1996
  56. A systemic approach to the prosodic analysis of spoken discourse. IV Jornadas de Lingüística Inglesa: Gramática y Pragmática. Universidad de Huelva (Spain)  1996
  57. Keep silent if you like. Inarticulate elements in English and Spanish Conversations. 7th. International Systemic-Functional Workshop. Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo- Valencia (Spain)  1995
  58. Feedback Elements in English and Spanish Conversations. 21st International Functional-Systemic Congress. Ghent University (Belgium)  1994
  59. The Dynamics of Grammatical Categories in English Poetry, a Multivariate Statistical Approach. XXII Congreso AEDEAN. Universidad de Córdoba  (Spain)  1993
  60. The role of hesitations in thematic analysis. Simposium Internacional Henry Sweet. Universidad de Córdoba  (Spain)  1992
  61. Continuative Themes in Oral Discourse. 4th Nottingham International Systemic Workshop. University of Nottingham (UK)  1992
  62. The “se” construction from a Systemic Perspective. V Simposio Nacional sobre Traducción Literaria y Científico Técnica. Universidad de Cáceres   (Spain) 1991