Laura Alba-Juez is currently a tenured Professor of English Linguistics at the National Distance Education University (UNED) in Madrid, Spain. She holds a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and a Ph. D. in Linguistics from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. From 1997 to 2001, she carried out postdoctoral research as a Visiting Researcher and Scholar in the Linguistics Department at Georgetown University(Washington D. C., U.S.A.), where she later held the position of lecturer. In 2013 she was a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Language, Discourse and Communication in the Department of Education and Professional Studies, King's College London (United Kingdom).
Her main areas of research are Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics and (Computerized) Language Teaching/learning. She has participated in and conducted different linguistic research projects; at present she is the Principal Investigator of the EMO-FUNDETT project (funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation - FFI2013-47792-C2-1-P- http://www.uned.es/proyectofundett/), whose main aim is the study of the emotive/expressive function of language, placing emphasis on the study of the conceptualization and expression of emotion in corporate or institutional work environments.
Her latest books in the field are:
1) Alba-Juez, Laura & Mackenzie, J. Lachlan (2016). Pragmatics: Cognition, Context and Culture. Madrid: McGraw Hill.
2) Thompson, Geoff & Laura Alba-Juez (eds.) (2014). Evaluation in Context. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
3) Alba-Juez, Laura. (2009). Perspectives on Discourse Analysis. Theory and Practice. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.
She also directs the CODE (Computerized Oral Distance Exam) E-oral project, whose main aim has been the development of a computer application for doing oral language exams on-line. She authors/ co-authors seven other books (the latest being Strands of Language I and II, in co-authorship with Dr. Mónica Aragonés), and has co-edited a volume devoted to English Studies in general. She has also published numerous articles in linguistic journals related to areas such as the evaluative function of language, Politeness Theory, verbal irony, discourse markers and the computerized oral evaluation of languages.
She is currently working on the preparation of a book entitled Emotion in Discourse, in coedition with John Lachlan Mackenzie (VU Amsterdam) on the relationship between language and emotion.
Aurelia Carranza Márquez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in English Language and Linguistics
Aurelia Carranza Márquez graduated in English studies from the University of Seville, where she also obtained a PhD in Linguistics. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Limerick (2008), the Claremont-McKenna College (2015) and has lectured in The University of Michigan (2001-2004).
She is a member of the teaching team of the Master de Formación de Profesorado de Educación Secundaria (Especialidad de Lenguas Modernas: Inglés) and participates in several projects in the area of material design and evaluation for language teaching/learning.
She is a member in different research projects related to applied linguistics and has several publications in that field in national and international journals and Publishing Houses (Cambridge Scholars, Journal of Pragmatics, etc). She has coordinated and participated in the development of teaching materials for English and Spanish for the CUID and the Romance Language Department at the University of Michigan (Burlington English, Visión y Voz).
