Contact information 

 blfern07@ucm.es

 ORCID; Research gate; 

 Departamento de Estudios Ingleses: Lingüística y Literatura (UCM)

 

 

Blanca Fernández-Soriano graduated in English Studies (First Class Honors & Extraordinary Award) at the University of Alicante (UA) in 2021. In 2023, she completed a MA in English Linguistics (2022, First Class Honors) at Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). She has been awarded with a predoctoral research scholarship (FPU), granted by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities, and is currently a PhD cantidate at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her interest areas include Cultural Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics and Sociolinguistics. Her PhD thesis deals with cultural concepts and peripheral documents produced by migrant women.

 

 

Publications 

• (2022) “La lingüística del amor: de la pasión a la palabra”. Book review, in Hesperia: Anuario de Filología Hispánica, 25 (2), 179-186. (ISSN: 1139/81)
• (2021) “A corpus-based and lexicographical analysis of Irish expletives in Irish English”, in Estudios Interlingüísticos, 9, 77-90 (ISSN-e 2340-9274)

Oral communications

• (2024) "Beyond the great blinkers of childhood”: the linguistic construction of fear and the remembered home in Maya Angelou’s memoir I know why the caged bird sings" in The Place of Memory and The Memory of Place. University of Oxford. 22 June 2024.

• (2024) “Bursting like a July-the-Fourth firecracker": ANGER and HAPPINESS in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” in V SEING 2024. Universidad de Zaragoza. 3 May 2024.
• (2024) “Finally a traveller with a fair nice life”: a critical discourse analysis on the representation of Irish Travellers in the Irish press” in AESLA 2024. Universitat Politècnica de València. 14 April 2024.
• (2024) ““New guy on the block!”: Gender and sexual identity in self-presentation strategies on Badoo” in UPCEL 2024. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 24 January 2024.
• (2023) “Lanscbox X: Working with own data or existing corpora”. Seminar Data Analysis Appetisers I & II. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 17 November 2023.

Projects

• Female childhood across borders. A Cultural Linguistics approach to the English-based conceptualization and perception of female childhood. Evidence from biographical discourse 1750-1900. (FemChildLing) [Conceptualización y percepción histórica de la niñez de la mujer en el ámbito anglófono. Aplicación de modelos lingüístico-culturales al discurso biográfico: 1750-1900]. Proyecto I+D+i del Programa Estatal de Generación de Conocimiento. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Referencia: PID2020-117973GB-I00. Financiación: 29.040€. IP: Dra. Paloma Tejada Caller. 

Congress and seminars organisation

• Member of the Organising committee XI Seminario de Lingüística Avanzada, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 21 March-11 April 2024
• Member of the Organising committee Language beyond boundaries. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 23-24 January 2024