Isabel Durán-Muñoz
University of Córdoba (Spain), Faculty of Arts
Member of: WG1, WG2, WG3
FEATURED NEOLOGISM:
Plogging. It might not be my “favourite” neologism but I found it really interesting. It means “to do some training outdoor like running or trekking and collect rubbish at the same time”. It comes from the Swedish expression “plocka upp”.
Senior Lecturer (with tenure track) at the Department of English and German Philologies since 2019. BA in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Málaga and BA in English Studies from UNED. She obtained her PhD in June 2011, which was awarded with the best PhD dissertation award in the IV Biennial Iberian Association of Translation and Interpreting Studies [AIETI] and the Special doctorate award. Researcher in European, national, and regional R&D projects, and invited researcher at the Research Institute in Information and Language Processing (RIILP) of the University of Wolverhampton (UK), Erasmushogeschool Brussels (Belgium) and University of Montreal (Canada), among others. She has published in well-known national and international relevant conferences and journals. Some of her publications have received awards for the quality of her research. Her main research lines are corpus linguistics, terminology, lexico-semantics, linguistic tecnologies and ICTs for foreign language teaching.
