BLANCO-SUÁREZ, ZELTIA

Zeltia Blanco-Suárez holds an MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Santiago de Compostela (June 2008); in October 2008 she was admitted to the PhD Programme in English Linguistics of the University of Santiago de Compostela and in September 2009 she obtained a four-year FPU research grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education, to prepare a PhD under the supervision of María José López-Couso. In May 2010 she received the National Award for Academic Excellence, in recognition of her outstanding academic record as an undergraduate student. Recently, she was also awarded an ISLE travel bursary for attendance at the ISLE 2 conference in Boston, USA.

As an ERASMUS exchange student (2005-2006) Zeltia studied at the University of Birmingham, and in the summer of 2007 she attended courses in German at the University of Freiburg, on a grant from the Autonomous Government of Galicia. In the autumn of 2010 she carried out research at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures of the University of Manchester.

Contact information:

Department of English and German
Facultad de Filología
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, SPAIN
E-mail: zeltia.blanco@rai.usc.es
Phone: +34 981563100, ext. 11974
Office: Room E, first floor

MA Dissertation (January 2012): A diachronic approach to intensifiers in English: Deadly as a case in point. Supervisor: María José López-Couso.

Publications:

(2010). "A corpus-based approach to the origin and development of the intensifier deadly in English". In Language windowing through corpora, ed. by Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel et al. A Coruña: Servizo de Publicacións da Universidade de A Coruña, pp. 101-114.

Conference presentations:

See the entry Presentations on this website.