FULL NAME: Elena Martínez Caro

POSITION: Associate Professor (Tenured) (TU)

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS: Relations between discourse and grammar, text linguistics. Discourse analysis (discourse organisation, discourse markers and discourse units, the discourse function of digression) and the syntax-pragmatics interface (information structure, especially the functions of topic and focus). Language variation and text types; register and genre. Evaluative language; grammar and the expression of emotion. The syntax-semantics and the discourse-pragmatics interfaces. Perspectives adopted: discourse-functional linguistics, corpus linguistics, English-Spanish contrastive linguistics. 

PhD SUPERVISION EXPERIENCE: Supervision of the PhD dissertation by Noelia Navarro Gil "Academic discourse at university: Corpus approaches to learner writing" (with Dr. Helena Roquet), defended in June 2020 (Cum Laude), an article-based dissertation ('tesis por compendio de artículos'). Supervision of the PhD dissertation by Juan Antonio Latorre "Attribution of Authorship of "Arden of Faversham": A Forensic Linguistic Study of William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe" (with Dr. María Goicoechea), defended in May 2022 (Cum Laude).

I have also been the supervisor in Spain of the following PhD dissertations from universities abroad: Talita Storti's dissertation on concessive relations in Brazilian Portuguese in the framework of FDG, defended in May 2010 at UNESP University, San Jose do Río Preto, Brazil; Emeline Pierre's thesis on passive-like structures in Spanish, French and English, defended in June and September of 2021 at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium; and Giorgia Troiani's PhD dissertation on the grammaticalization of quotatives in Kazakh reported discourse, defended in the Department of Linguistics, University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 2023.

Currently supervising four PhD Dissertations on the following topics: emotion in the discourse of victims of sexual violence; lexical variation and homegeneity in contemporary Spanish; the scientific discourse of oceanographic articles; and application of tools of critical analysis in the bilingual secondary education in Spain.

I WOULD WELCOME DISSERTATION PROPOSALS FROM CANDIDATES WORKING ON: The research areas stated above, and topics within the areas of EFL teaching of grammar and forensic linguistics.

LINK TO CV PROFILE: https://www.ucm.es/departamento-estudios-ingleses-linguistica-y-literatura//elena-martinez-caro

EMAIL ADDRESS: elenamc@ucm.es