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University of Valladolid
Facultad de Comercio
Plaza del Campus, 1
47011 Valladolid - Spain
+ 34 983 42 35 82
orcid.org/0000-0003-3831-5377
I work as Full Professor at the University of Valladolid (Spain), where I held the post of Vice-Rector (Vicerrector de Economía) since 2003 to 2006. I have also taught at the Department of Business Communication, University of Aarhus (Denmark) as Guest Professor (2007-2008) and "Velux Visiting Professor" (2011-2012). I had previously stayed at the Universities of Dundee (United Kingdom) and Ottawa (Canada) for research purposes. Since December 2014, I am also Extraordinary Professor at the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, University of Stellenbosh (South Africa).
My current research interest lies in Lexicography, particularly specialized lexicography. I am also interested in Translation and in English for Specific Purposes (ESP). As lexicographer, I defend a functional approach to dictionary making and criticism, especially the ideas defended by the function theory of lexicography. Routledge has commissioned me the edition of the Routledge Handbook of Lexicography, to be published in October, 2017.
In 2007 I was invited to teach and do research at the Department of Language and Business Communication, Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus (Denmark) (September to December, 2007); In 2011 I was also invited to teach and do research at the University of Aarhus as Velux Visiting Professor.
I have also lectured as plenary/keynote speaker at various Conferences, Master and PhD programmes, and workshops held in:
- China (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (years 2008 and 2016) and Beijing (The Commercial Press, year 2016);
- Denmark (University of Aarhus, years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017);
- Germany (University of Hildesheim, years 2011, 2014 and 2015);
- Poland (University of Silesia, 2017);
- Namibia (University of Namibia, year 2011);
- South Africa (Universities of Pretoria and Stellenbosch, years, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016);
- Spain (Universitues of Alicante, years 2006, 2012, and 2014), Extremadura (year 2005), Jaume I (year 2014), Santiago de Compostela (year 2015), and UNED (years 2002 and 2012).
From 2003 to 2006, I was the review editor of Ibérica, a peer-reviewed journal of the European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes. I am currently member of the Editorial Board of different peer-reviewed journals: Hermes. Journal of Language and Communication Studies; Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics; African Journal of History and Culture; Odisea: Revista de Estudios Ingleses; The Open Applied Linguistics Journal; Circulo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, and Atlantis. I have also acted as referee for the above mentioned journals and for Lingua, Journal of Pragmatics, Applied Linguistics, English for Specific Purposes, International Journal of Lexicography, Lexikos, Signos, and Miscelánea.
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