Maria Bernal Linnersand Professor

Contact

Name and title: Maria Bernal LinnersandProfessor

Mail: maria.bernal@su.se

Visiting address Room B 548Universitetsvägen 10 B, plan 4 och 5 samt 10 C plan 5

Postal address Romanska och klassiska institutionen106 91 Stockholm

Research group

Romance Linguistics - RomLing

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Teaching

Teaching at BA and MA level

Spanish for Beginners.
Spanish Grammar (Spanish I, II).
Spanish Linguistics (Spanish II).
Communication (Spanish II).
Specialisation in the culture & society of Spain (Spanish III).
Linguistics, discourse and pragmatics (Spanish III).
Academic writing in Spanish (Spanish IV).
Scientific methodology (Spanish, BA level).
Supervision at the BA and MA level.

Teaching at PhD level

Pragmatics and sociopragmatics (Spanish).
The Power and Language of Media (5 ECTS), Language and Power(Tema Språk och makt). Doctoral School in the Humanities, Stockholm University. (2018).
Research methodology (for several PhD. students).

Supervision and co-supervision of ongoing doctoral dissertation projects (SU = Stockholm University)

2014-2021. Supervision, doctoral student Marco Berton. La riqueza léxica en estudiantes suecos de Español Lengua Extranjera. SU.
2018-2022. Supervision, doctoral student Jenny Morales. El componente sociopragmático en la producción escrita: reconocimiento y ejecución por parte de estudiantes suecos de ELE. SU.

Supervision of successfully completed doctoral dissertations (SU = Stockholm University)

2012-2017. Supervision, doctoral student Geraldine Quartararo. La evidencialidad indirecta en aimara y en el español de La Paz. Un estudio semántico-pragmático de textos orales. Fospråk. SU.
2009-2015. Co-supervision, doctoral student Susanne Henning. Opinión-acuerdo/desacuerdo y ofrecimiento-aceptación/rechazo en la conversación coloquial sueca y española entre familiares y amigos. SU.
2010-2016. Co-supervision, doctoral student Janaina Negreiros Persson. Confrontación y (des)cortesía en los juicios orales a la junta militar en la Argentina. Presentación de la imagen pública y sus ecos sociales. SU.

Educational projects

2018–2019. Co-applicant.Project Utökat stöd till studenternas arbete utanför lektionstid inom grammatikundervisning. Funding from the Stockholm University’s President (Rektors medel för kvalitetsutveckling av utbildning omgång 4, 2018).
2016–2017. Participant. Project about pedagogical and didactic development of the Romance language programmes (Kvalitetsutveckling av utbildningar i Romanska spark). Funding from the Stockholm University’s President (Rektors medel för kvalitetsutveckling av utbildning omgång 1, 2015).
2010-2011. Course design and development Spanish for specific purposes.
2010. Course design and development, Grammar.

2002. Course design and, Spanish for Beginners.
2002. Development, computer-based teaching materials (Palabras - spansk basvokabulär. Saskia Läromedel).

Research

Research areas

pragmatics, sociopragmatics, politeness studies, spoken Spanish, discourse markers in Spanish, courtroom discourse

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Research projects

Ongoing projects

2005- . EDICE Program (Politeness studies in Spanishwww.edice.org). COSOPRAG, Sociopragmatic Corpus
In collaboration with a European researcher group, participation in a project on narratives of conflict and its treatment by the Spanish press.
Social och diskursiv praxis i den rättsliga kontexten: interaktion, face och (o)artighetsstrategier i rättegången mot terrordåden i Madrid 2004.
Language, identities and subjectivities in political discourse in the Romance speaking countries: linguistic and social science perspectives (ROMPOL).

Concluded projects

2011-2013. Research Exchange with the University of the Atlantic in Barranquilla, Colombia. Project leader: Prof. Diana Bravo. Funding body: Stockholms universitet.
2010-2013: Fonocortesía (”Politeness, impoliteness and prosodic features”). Project leader: Prof. Antonio Hidalgo, University of Valencia (Spain). Funding body: Ministery of Education, Spain.

2009-2010. Participation in the scholarly exchange program ‘Verbal Interaction Studies in Santiago and Stockholm (VISSAS)’. 2006-2011. Funding body: The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Higher Education and Research (STINT), International Grant IG
2006-2007. FIIK Forskningsprogram för interkulturell kommunikation, Pedagogiska institutionen, Stockholm university.

Scientific assignments

2017- Assisting Managing Editor för the journal Sociocultural Pragmatics (SOPRAG), published with the financial support of Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council, Ministry of Education and Research, Sweden), Stockholm University, and EDICE Program (edice.org).Sociocultural Pragmatics (SOPRAG).
2012-2017. Review Editor för the journal Sociocultural Pragmatics (SOPRAG).

Peer-reviewer (conference proceedings)

Escamilla Morales, J., & Henry Vega, G. (eds.) (2013) Miradas multidisciplinares a los fenómenos de cortesía y descortesía en el mundo hispánico. Universidad del Atlántico-Programa EDICE, e-book.

Orletti, F. & Mariottini, L. (eds.) (2010). (Des)cortesía en español. Espacios teóricos y metodológicos para su estudio). Roma Tre-Programa EDICE, e-book.

Rodríguez Alfano, L. (2009) La (des)cortesía y la imagen social en México. Estudios semiótico-discursivos desde varios enfoques analíticos. Nuevo León, México: FFyL, UANL-Programa EDICE.

Peer-reviewer (international scientific journals)

Sintagma, Pragmatics, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Moderna Språk, Signo y Seña, RILL-Revista del Instituto de Investigaciones Lingüísticas y Literarias Hispanoamericanas, BeLLS-Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies,Iberoamericana-Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Spanish in Context

Scientific Committee

(2017) The Pragmatics of Negation. Stockholm University.

(2016) ROMPOL II. Political discourse and the extremes in the Romance Speaking Countries: Linguistics and Social Science perspectives.Stockholm University.

(2014) Political discourse in the Romance speaking countries: new perspectives at the crossroads of linguistics and social sciences. Stockholm University.

(2014) Hablar las lenguas romances. The ninth GSP International Conference. Stockholm University.

(2013) VI Coloquio Internacional del Programa EDICE. Universidad de Nuevo León, Monterrey, México.

(2011) EUROSLA 21. 21st Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association. Stockholm University.

(2011) Interfaces en el Estudio del Diálogo, Stockholm university 2011.

(2010) V Coloquio Internacional del Programa EDICE. Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Colombia.

(2008) IV Coloquio Internacional del Programa EDICE. Universitá Roma Tre, Italy.

(2007) II Congreso de Hispanistas y Lusitanistas Nórdicos. Stockholm University.

Assessments for academic posts

- Docentur. Oslo University. 2017.

- Tenure-track assistant professorship in Spanish language. University of Copenhage. 2015.

- Assoc. Professor, Spanish Linguistics. Bergen University. 2014.

- Post doc. Romance Languages. Romling/Stockholm University. 2016.

- Adjunktur i spanska. Stockholm University. 2012.

Examining committee (doctoral thesis)

- 2017. Franco Pauletto. L’ordine sociale a tavola. L’interazione tra genitori e figli in famiglie italiane e svedesi. ITALIAN. Stockholm University.

- 2016. Natalia Morollón Martí. Concienciación sociopragmática en el aula de español como lengua extranjera. SPANISH. Aarhus University.

- 2016. Aránzazu Santos Muñoz. Copresencia y disponiblidad. Estudio pragmático del preámbulo de reuniones multi-partitas por videoconferencia. SPANISH. Uppsala University.

Invited lecturer

2014, 2012. University of Copenhagen, Danmark.
2012. Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Colombia.
2012. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
2009. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
2004. Universidad de Valencia, Spanien.

Recent publications

Bernal, M. (forth. 2017) Teaching Sociopragmatics: Facework, Politeness and Impoliteness in Spanish Colloquial Conversations. In Gutiérrez Bassols, J. & Dumitrescu, D. (ed.) The Learning of Spanish Pragmatics: From Research to Practice. Oxford: Routledge.
Bernal, M. & Hernández Flores, N. ( 2016) Variación sociopragmática en la enseñanza del español: aplicación didáctica de un cuestionario de hábitos sociales. Journal of Spanish Language Teaching, ISSN 2324-7797, E-ISSN 2324-7800.
Bernal, M. (2016) Autoimagen e imagen de rol en el metadiscurso parlamentario: Iglesias (Podemos) vs. Villalobos (PP). In Dumitrescu, D. & Bravo, D. (eds.). Actividades de imagen y situación comunicativa en discursos en español. Buenos Aires: Editorial Dunken.
Bernal, M. (2015) Barbarie, hordas y tiros de gracia: discurso autoritario, ideología e imagen social en las esquelas recordatorias de las víctimas de la Guerra Civil Española. In Bravo, D. & Bernal, M. (eds.) Perspectivas sociopragmáticas y socioculturales del análisis del discurso. Buenos Aires: Editorial Dunken, 91-139.
Bravo, D. & Bernal, M. (eds.) (2015) Perspectivas sociopragmáticas y socioculturales del análisis del discurso. Buenos Aires: Editorial Dunken.

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