Tags: Spanish

Author of La vuelta incompleta. Saer y la novela. Buenos Aires, Santiago Arcos Editor, 2017. Specializes in 19th and 20th century Latin American literatures, Modernization and Modernisms, Travel Writing, Journalism, politics and literature.

Dr. Betina Kaplan researches contemporary Latin American literature, visual culture, and film. She is the author of Género y violencia en la narrativa del cono sur (1954-2003), 2007.  Latin American Works of Memory Conference- April 28-30, 2022 Conference Program    

My primary area of research is language variation and change, focusing on structural phenomena in the Romance Languages. More generally, I investigate the forces that shape language use and the subsequent effect that these forces have on how language evolves. The most recent extension of this research involves analyzed data from social media for evidence of language change. I am also involved in work related to Spanish/Quechua contact. For a…

(Ph.D. University of Iowa, 2010) Research (my ORCID) Effective August 2024, I have been promoted to the rank of Professor.  I specialize in syntax, which means that I study sentence structure and word order. In my research, I seek to discover insight on how language structure is represented within the human mind—in monolinguals as well as bilinguals/multi-linguals. I do this by focusing on a variety of constructions in language. …

Dr. Richard A. Gordon (Ph.D. Brown University, 2002) is Professor of Brazilian and Spanish-American Literature and Culture at the University of Georgia, Principal Investigator of UGA's Department of Education Title VI NRC and FLAS grants, and Co-Director of UGA's Department of Defense Portuguese Flagship Program. His research focuses largely on historical film and social identity, specifically, the capacity for cinema to influence how…

Pilar Chamorro's research focuses on the semantic and pragmatic contribution of temporal, aspectual, and modal expressions across languages. She is also interested in the semantics of plurals, the mass/count distinction, and quantification. She has done fieldwork on Spanish, Galician and Portuguese (Romance) since 2007, and on Malayalam (Dravidian) since 2013. Since 2015, she has been doing fieldwork  on Tenetehára (Tupi-Guarani) in Brazil…

I am a scholar of premodern Spanish literature and culture. My research answers the question: how did religious culture shape literary aesthetics through the rise and decline of the Spanish Empire? Particularly I study moral theology in combination with poetry, novels, and treatises to interpret methods for creating social roles and identities.  Recent publications include the critical edition Francisco de Osuna’s Norte de los estados…

My main areas of interest in research and teaching include pragmatics (particularly Gricean and neo-Gricean pragmatics), the roles of pragmatics and semantics in language use and interpretation, discourse analysis, cognitive and functional linguistics, discourse reference and anaphora, discourse connectives and markers, Spanish/English contrastive pragmatics, and L2 pragmatics, language learning and applied linguistics. My research has focused…