Verónica Silva Folgar

https://orcid.org/0009-0003-5094-3226

I hold a BA in Foreign Languages (2024) from the University of Vigo and an MA in Advanced English Studies (2025), from the same university. In my MA dissertation, I studied code-mixing in spoken Gibraltar English, under the supervision of Elena Seoane. In my PhD thesis, I want to continue exploring this topic, also under the supervision of Elena Seoane. 

In the fourth year of my BA, I was granted the "Beca de Colaboración" from the Spanish Ministry of Education, to collaborate as a research assitant in the Department of English, French and German of the University of Vigo (from November 2023 to June 2024). During this period, I transcribed and coded spoken materials from the Gibraltar component of the International Corpus of English, under the supervision of Elena Seoane.

DISSERTATIONS

Silva-Folgar, Verónica. "Backflagging and insertion in Street Talk: A study of Spanish functional markers in spoken Gibraltar English". Universidade de Vigo, 12 June 2024. (BA dissertation).

Silva-Folgar, Verónica. "Code-mixing in spoken Gibraltar English: A corpus study". Universidade de Vigo, 2 July 2025. (MA dissertation). 

AWARDS

"Premio Ángela Ruiz Robles a la excelencia académica" (Ángela Ruiz Robles Award for academic excellence) (Xunta de Galicia). Academic years 2022-2023 and 2023-2024.

"Premio Extraordinario de Grao" (Best Degree Student Award) (Xunta de Galicia). Academic year 2024-2025.

"Premio Extraordinario de Fin de Grao" (Best Degree Student Award) (Universidade de Vigo). Academic year 2024-2025.

"Premio á excelencia académica para estudantado que inicia estudos de mestrado" (Academic excellence award for students starting master's degree studies) (Universidade de Vigo). Academic year 2024-2025.

"Premio Santander" (Santander Award) (Banco Santander). Academic year 2024-2025.

CORPORA COMPILATION

During my PhD studies, I aim to compile a wider variety of oral texts from spoken Gibraltar English, to build a larger corpus than the one I currently have. This corpus will be the Corpus of Spoken Gibraltar English (SGibE), which will be available online after completion. The written transcriptions will be published alongside the corresponding audio files. It will include oral texts from different podcasts and programs where the participants speak Gibraltar English.

For the moment, I have only transcribed the last two seasons of the Gibraltarian podcast Street Talk (c. 300,000 words), where speakers discuss, in an informal register, a wide range of topics regarding the current situation of Gibraltarian society, culture and politics, among other issues.

PRESENTATIONS

Silva-Folgar, Verónica. "Backflagging and isertion in Street Talk". Second Gibraltar International Conference (GIC2). Universidade de Vigo. 8-9 July 2024.

Silva-Folgar, Verónica. "The use of grammatical markers in spoken Gibraltar English: A corpus study". Third Gibraltar International Conference (GIC3). Universität Basel. Forthcoming, 3-6 September 2025.

Silva-Folgar, Verónica. "'Porque I like your hair long’: Code-mixing in spoken Gibraltar English". 48th AEDEAN Conference. Vitoria-Gasteiz. Forthcoming, 12-14 November 2025.