FAYA, FÁTIMA

Fátima Faya obtained an MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 2002. She also holds an MA Degree in Italian (Santiago de Compostela, 2005). As an ERASMUS exchange student she studied at Anglia Polytechnic University, and more recently she stayed at the Departments of English of the Universities of Helsinki (Autumn 2006) and Leiden (Autumn 2007).

Between September 2005 and September 2009 Fátima worked at the University of Santiago de Compostela as an FPI researcher, under funding from the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation. In October 2009 she obtained a position as Assistant Lecturer at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, where she teaches English for Sports.

Fátima has nearly completed her PhD dissertation on the development of English courtesy markers, under the supervision of Belén Méndez-Naya.

Contact information:

Departamento de Filología Moderna
Facultad de Ciencias del Deporte
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Campus Tecnológico de la Antigua Fábrica de Armas
Avda. de Carlos III, s/n
E-45071 Toledo, SPAIN
E-mail: Fatima.Faya@uclm.es
Phone: +34 902 204 100, ext. 5533 
Office: 1.74

MA Dissertation (July 2006): On the origin and development of the courtesy marker please: A corpus-based analysis. Supervisor: Belén Méndez-Naya.

Publications:

(2009). “‘Please in nineteenth-century English: origin and position of a courtesy marker”. In New trends and methodologies in applied English language research. Diachronic, diatopic and contrastive studies, ed. by Carlos Prado-Alonso, Lidia Gómez-García, Iria Pastor-Gómez & David Tizón-Couto. (Linguistic Insights Series 103). Bern, etc.: Peter Lang, pp. 25-35.

(2008). Review of Irma Taavitsainen & Andreas H. Jucker, eds. Speech acts in the history of English (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2008). SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature 15: 163-168.

(2008). "Who requests whom and how they do it: use of request markers in Late Modern English letters". In Proceedings of the 31st AEDEAN International Conference, ed. by María Jesús Lorenzo Modia. La Coruña: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de La Coruña, pp. 269-278.

(2007). “The courtesy markers pray and please in the late 18th century: evidence from the Corpus of Late Eighteenth-Century Prose”. In Proceedings of the 30th International AEDEAN Conference, ed. by María Losada Friend, Pilar Ron Vaz, Sonia Hernández Santano & Jorge Casanova. Huelva: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Huelva. [CD-Rom]

(2007). “Saying please in Late Modern English”. In 'Of varying language and opposing creed': new insights into Late Modern English, ed. by Javier Pérez-Guerra et al. (Linguistic Insights 28). Bern: Peter Lang, pp. 421-444 [with Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade].

conference presentations:

See the entry Presentations on this website.