Associate Professor
| Name: | Olga Blanco Carrión |  |
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| Position: | Associate Professor | |
| Research group: | HUM 693- Lingüística cognitiva y funcional | |
| Telephone: | + 34 957 21 8119 | |
| Email address: | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |
| Address: | Departamento de Filologías Inglesa y Alemana Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Pl. del Cardenal Salazar, 3. Córdoba 1ª Planta. |
Olga Blanco Carrión is an associate professor at the Department of English and German of the University of Córdoba, where she obtained her PhD with the dissertation Mental perception and cognition from a frame-semantic and construction grammar perspective. She joined the Department in 2003. She currently teaches Semantics and Pragmatics I, Figurative language, and Multimodal Discourse Analysis in the BA on English Studies, and An Advanced Course in Discourse Analysis, and part of An Introduction to Research Methods in English Linguistics, Research in Metaphor and Metonymy and The language of the literary text in the MA on Advanced English Studies (Cognitive linguistics and literature) and Bilingual Education. She was the Coordinator of the MA in English for Professional Qualification of the University of Córdoba from March, 2011 to January, 2012 when she became its Head until September 2014. She has presented her research at numerous international conferences and published on cognitive semantics, especially frame semantics, conceptual metaphor and conceptual metonymy. Some of this research has been published in John Benjamins, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Scholars and Anthropos. She is associate editor of the online Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy, and has occasionally been a reviewer for the journal Cognitive Semantics. She has been invited to teach at the postgraduate level at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (México), Universitat Jaume I (Spain), and Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal). She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Washington (Seattle, USA), the University of California-Berkeley (Berkeley, USA), the University of Antwerp (Belgium), and the National University of Singapore. She is a member of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association (AELCO/SCOLA), and was the Vice-president of the Organising Committee and part of the Scientific Committee of its 11th biannual conference which took place at the University of Córdoba in October, 2018 (https://www.uco.es/aelco2018/en/welcome)
Main publications
- Blanco-Carrión, O. (in press). The match that transcends tennis in the media coverage that transcends language, en M. C. Almeida, O. Blanco-Carrión & R. Furtado (eds.) Rhetoric Discourse and the Communicative-dialogical Mind. pp. 1-18.
- Blanco-Carrión, O. 2018. Conventionality and linguistic domain(s) involved in the characterization of metonymies (for the creation of a detailed typology of metonymy), en O. Blanco-Carrión, A. Barcelona, & R. Pannain (eds.), pp. 57-74.
- Blanco-Carrión, O.; Barcelona, A.; Pannain, R. (eds.) 2018. Conceptual Metonymy. Methodological, theoretical, and descriptive issues. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/hcp.60. (325pp.)
- Barcelona, A., Blanco-Carrión, O., Pannain, R. 2018. Introduction: The complex task of studying metonymy, en Blanco-Carrión, O.; Barcelona, A.; Pannain, R. (eds.), pp. 1-23.
- Blanco-Carrión, O. 2015. The Glamour of Grammar, en J. Martín-Párraga & J. D. Torralbo-Caballero (eds.) New Medievalisms. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 27-52.
- Kövecses, Z., Szelíd, V., Nucz, E., Blanco-Carrión, O., Akkok, E., Benczes, R. 2015. Anger metaphors across languages: A cognitive-linguistic perspective, en R .Heredia & A.B. Cieslicka (eds.) Bilingual Figurative Processing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 341-367. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139342100.017
- Blanco Carrión, O. 2012. La Semántica de Marcos, en I. Ibarretxe-Antuñano & J. Valenzuela (eds.) Lingüística Cognitiva. Barcelona: Anthropos. pp. 167-188.
- Blanco Carrión, O. 2012. Conceptualization of anger in English pop fiction stories, en Praxis, Vol. 3, n.2, Winter 2012/13. pp.1-29.
- Blanco Carrión, O., & Jiménez Navarro, E. L. 2012. English collocations and intercultural communication. In L. Rodríguez García & A. Roldán Tapia (Eds.). Interculturalidad: un enfoque interdisciplinar, pp. 209-225. Córdoba: Cátedra Intercultural, Universidad de Córdoba.
- Blanco Carrión, O. 2011. Framing Interpersonal Violence in A Married Woman, en Gámez-Fernández, C. & A. Navarro Tejero India in the World. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 143-156
Research projects
- Researching conceptual metonymy in selected areas of grammar, discourse and sign language with the aid of the University of Córdoba Metonymy Database. Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PGC2018-101214-B-I00). 2019-2022. PI: Professor Antonio Barcelona Sánchez. Full-time researcher.
PhD Theses
- Bergin, A. (supervisor): A cognitive linguistic approach to bilingualism and the teaching of English as a foreign language (in progress).
- Martín Gascón, B. (co-supervisor): The expression of emotion. A cognitive study on metaphor, metonymy, irony and the notion of valence in affective verbs and its application in the classroom of Spanish as a Foreign Language. (To be defended in June 2020).