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Margarita García Romero, PhD

Phd in English Linguistics
Associate Professor, Facultad de Filología
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
 

I am an English philologist and linguist with over 20 years of experience as a teacher and language consultant in Spain and abroad (USA and Mexico). I hold a PhD. in English linguistics. My research focuses on culture and conceptualization and socio-cognitive aspects of metaphors. My main areas of expertise are English and Spanish as Second Languages, English for Specific Purposes, Sociolinguistics, and Semantics.

Publications

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García, M. (2024). What frequencies tell us of the foodstuffs used as source domain to conceptualize attractive people in Peninsular Spanish. Cognitive Linguistic Studies (11) 1,(In May)

https://benjamins.com/catalog/cogls.11.1

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García, M. (2022). Review of Kövecses (2020): Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory. Cognitive Linguistic Studies. 9:1,152-157.

 https://benjamins.com/catalog/cogls.9.1

Conferences and lectures

June 2023. The role of gender in the choice of the foodstuffs used as source domain to conceptualize attractive individuals in Peninsular Spanish. RAAM 16 International conference at  Universidad de Alcalá. https://raam16.com/

Research

I study the use of the APPETIZING FOOD metaphor to conceptualize attraction in different languages.

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This project is framed within Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) and in its extended version (Kövecses 2020). We approach metaphor as a cognitive process by which we construct knowledge and use in our interactions with the reality that surrounds us. As a framing device (Romano, 2024), metaphors reflect the way speakers construe different sociocultural matters. 

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Main areas of research interest:

 

Cognitive Metaphor Theory, cognitive simile, sociolinguistics and semantic variation.

You can collaborate with my research project:

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Complete this survey and let me know how you talk about attractive people, it will be like 5 minutes only!

https://forms.gle/F4rjRLPwAHkP2zWm9

It is completely anonymous and the results will be published and used for scientific purposes only after statistical treatment.

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Teaching and other positions

  • Associate Professor at UCM.

  • Teacher of ESP at Berlitz, Madrid. 2023- today.

  • Lecturer on Introduction to Sociolinguistics in Diplomado internacional de lingüística aplicada (DILA) at Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México. 2016- today.

  • Accademic coordinator of Diplomado internacional de lingüística aplicada  organized by ILV (SIL Mexican branch). 2020-today.

  • Board member of Promotora Española de Lingüística (PROEL). 2019-today.

  • Consultive committee member of Instituto Linguistico de Verano (SIL Mexican branch). 2013- today.

Organization of seminars

  • March 2023. X Advance Research  Seminar PhD in English Linguistics. Facultad de Filología, UCM. Member of the organizing committee.

  • March 2022. IX Advance Research Seminar PhD in English Linguistics. Facultad de Filología, UCM. Member of the organizing committee.

  • March 2021. VIII Advance Research Seminar PhD in English Linguistics. Facultad de Filología, UCM. Member of the organizing committee.

  • March 202o. VII Advance Research Seminar PhD in English Linguistics. Facultad de Filología, UCM. Member of the organizing committee.

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