Professional
Activities and Organisations
Professional
affiliations:
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Asociación
Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN)
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Asociación
Española de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA)
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Sociedad
Española de Lingüística (SEL)
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Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
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International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), member 1986–2001.
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International Systemic-Functional Linguistics
Association (ISFLA)
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European Systemic-Functional Linguistics
Association (ESFLA)
Service in professional organizations:
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Representative
of the Executive Committee of the European Systemic Functional Linguistics
Association (ESFLA)
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Member
of the Executive Committee of the Sociedad Española de Lingüística (SEL) (1998-2000)
Journal editing
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(2006- ) Co-editor-in-chief of the journal Estudios
Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense (EIUC)
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(1998- ) Member of the editorial board of Revista Española de Lingüística (REL)
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Member of the editorial board of Atlantis (4 years)
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(2006- ) Member of the editorial board of Círculo de lingüística aplicada a la
comunicación (CLAC)
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(2005- ) Member of the editorial board of UCM Papers and
Studies in Linguistics (PSL)
Conference organizing committees:
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Workshop co-organiser, International
Workshop on Burning Issues in Discourse (funded by NATO). Maratea, Italy.
April 1993.
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Workshop co-organiser, Euro-International
Systemic-Functional Linguistics Workshop. Madrid, Spain. July 1993.
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Member of organizing committee of the Conference
of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) and European
Association (EACL). Madrid, Spain. July 1997.
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Co-organiser of the Seminar Series in
English Applied Linguistics for 8 academic years (1996-2004). Department of
English Philology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
Selected invited presentations:
(for fuller list
of invited presentations see here)
- Keynote speaker, “Corpus annotation: a new methodological challenge for Corpus Linguistics", Plenary talk at the International
Seminar "New Trends in Corpus Linguistics for language teaching and
translation studies. In honour of John Sinclair". Granada 22-24, September 2008.
- Keynote speaker, “The grammar of emotion in English and Spanish”
Plenary talk at the 17th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference
& Workshop,
Kings College, London, 1-4 August 2005.
- Invited speaker, “Global and local attention in
conversation: the case of appointment-scheduling dialogues” Invited talk at the
3rd International Systemic-Functional Research Community Workshop,
University of Ghent (Belgium), 27-29 November 2003.
- Keynote speaker, “Discurso y gramática: la
construcción de las identidades sociales en el diálogo” Plenary talk at the XXXII Simposio de la Sociedad Española de
Lingüística, Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Científicas. 16-19 December 2002.
- Invited speaker, “The design of contrastive (English-Spanish)
grammatical resources for multilingual generation: the grammar of mood as an
example,” Invited talk at the Computers,
Literature and Philology 2002 (CLIP’2002), Universidad de Castilla-la Mancha (Albacete), 5-7
December 2002
- Invited speaker, “Textual issues in the
Analysis of English and Spanish: A Functional Perspective” Invited talk at the
workshop entitled “Applying systemic
grammars of different languages in contrastive textual analysis –insights,
problems and perspectives” as part of the 14th European Systemic
Functional Linguistics Conference & Workshop
Lisbon University, July 2002.
- Invited speaker (with J. Arús), “Contrasting nuclear transitivity in
English and Spanish: a systemic-functional study for natural language
generation”, at the 2nd
Workshop of the Systemic Functional Research Community on Interpersonal and
Ideational Grammar, University of Leuven, 21-24 November 2001.
- Invited speaker, “Tecnologías del lenguaje humano: la generación computacional”,
invited talk at the Seminario informativo sobre Tecnologías para el lenguaje humano en la Sociedad de la Información, organised
by the Observatorio Español de Industrias
de la Lengua y la Fundació Catalana per la Recerca, Escuela Técnica de Ingenieros de Telecomunicaciones,
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 18th January 1999.
- Invited speaker, “The Relevance of
Corpus-based Research for Contrastive Linguistic and Computational Studies”
invited talk at the V Jornadas de Corpus Lingüísticos, organized by the
Instituto Universitario de Lingüística Aplicada (IULA) de la Universidad Pompeu
Fabra, Barcelona, April 1997.
- Invited speaker, “Language Engineering in the European Union”, Multilingual
Study Programme for Translators, Agder College, Christiansand
(Norway), 25th June 1996.
- Invited speaker, “Towards a dynamic account of information progression
in discourse: insights from text planning”, invited talk at the workshop
entitled “Dynamic approaches to discourse: Issues and problems”, organised by
Prof. Eija Ventola as part of the 11th World Congress of the International Applied Linguistic Association
(AILA-96), Jyvaskyla, Finland. 5-9-August 1996.
- Invited speaker, “Global discourse structures and local discourse relations”,
invited talk at the panel entitled “Empirical and computational applications
of discourse structure theory” as part of the 43rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association
, Washington (USA), May 1993.
- Invited speaker, “Information in Discourse: Focus and Theme”
invited talk at the International
Workshop on Burning Issues In Discourse, Maratea (Italy),
April 1993.
- Invited speaker, “The Place of Theme in a
Functional Account of Discourse: Insights from Text Planning”, invited talk
at the Istituto per la Ricerca Científica e Tecnológica (Trento, Italy),
12 November 1992.
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