News and Events

Elena Seoane has been appointed to serve at the Editorial Board of the new John Benjamins' journal Register Studies (ISSN 2542-9477),  edited by Jesse Egbert (Northern Arizona University) and Bethany Gray (Iowa State University), with Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University) as Consulting Editor.

At the General Assembly of ICAME, held during the 38th ICAME Conference which took place at Charles University in Prague (23 to 28 May 2017), Elena Seoane was nominated and elected as a new member of the ICAME Executive Board, where she will serve for a period of four years (opting to renewal for another four years).

On 26 Abril the Symposium Language and Identity in Gibraltar will take place, organised by Cristina Suárez-Gómez and Lucía Loureiro-Porto. They will open the symposium with a talk on the "Sociolinguistic situation in Gibraltar: English, Spanish and Yanito." Invited speakers are Elena Seoane (University of Vigo), who will focus on the compilation of the Gibraltarian component of the ICE (International Corpus of English) project with a talk entitled "Resources for the study of Gibraltar English: Compiling a representative corpus" and Gibraltarian writer Mark G.

Our new book is now available:  Re-assessing the Present Perfect. Corpus studies and beyond, issue 91 of the De Gruyter's series TiEL (Topics in English Linguistics), edited by Valentin Werner (University of Bamberg), Elena Seoane & Cristina Súarez-Gómez, both ViEW members.