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 has now completed one year of postgraduate courses and one of research. As an ERASMUS exchange student (2005-2006) she studied at the University of Birmingham, and in the summer of 2007 attended courses in German at the University of Freiburg, on a grant from the Autonomous Government of Galicia. As from September 2009 she has joined the Department of English and German on a four-year FPU research grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education, to prepare a PhD under the supervision of María José López-Couso. Last May Zeltia received the National Award for Academic Excellence.

 

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

MA Dissertation (in preparation): “On the origin and development of the intensifiers jolly and dead(ly): a corpus-based approach”. Supervisor: María José López-Couso.

Publications:

(2010). "A corpus-based approach to the origin and development of the intensifier deadly in English". In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC10), 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.