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![]() | SHORT BIO – LAURA ALBA-JUEZLaura Alba-Juez is currently Full Professor of Linguistics at the UNED (National Distance Education University) in Madrid, Spain. Her professional trajectory stands out as one of an international character: She holds a Bachelor’s degree from the UNSJ (Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina), a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics from the UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the UCM (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain). She then carried out post-doc research at Georgetown University (Washington D. C., U.S.A.), where she held the position of Visiting Researcher and, subsequently, of Lecturer (1997-2001). In 2013 she stayed at King’s College London (University of London, U.K.) as a visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Language, Discourse and Communication. Her main areas of research are Functional Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, and Pragmatics. She has been the Principal Investigator of several projects, the last one being the EMO-FunDETT project (2014-2018, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity - FFI2013-47792-C2-1-P), which studied both the emotive and persuasive functions of language in corporate and institutional discourse. She is also evaluator of scientific projects for the Spanish National Evaluation Agency (ANEP), as well as for some international agencies. She forms part of the scientific committees of numerous scientific journals on linguistics and is one of the founders of the Discourse Linguistics Association of Spain. She has published fifteen books and numerous scientific articles. Her last three books are Evaluation in Context (in co-edition with Geoff Thompson, 2014, John Benjamins), Pragmatics: Cognition, Context and Culture (in co-authorship with J. Lachlan Mackenzie, 2016, McGraw Hill), and Emotion in Discourse (in co-edition with J. Lachlan Mackenzie, 2019, John Benjamins). She has also held several management positions at the UNED along the last 15 years, such as Vice-Rector of Undergraduate and Postgraduate Studies, Coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Philological Studies or Vice-Dean of Research. At present she is the Vice-Rector of International Relations. For more details about her academic work, please go to her professional website at www.lauraalbajuez.com | ![]() |
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