Research Focus and Interests
Dr. Alicia Urquidi Díaz
Research Focus
- Cognitive linguistics
- Conceptual metaphor and metonymy
- Corpus linguistics
- Language theory at the interface between information and social sciences
- Pragmatics and discourse analysis
- Lexicology and semantic language change
Dissertation
- From the Mind to the Dictionary: Creative Metaphors and Semantic Change in Spanish Media Economics Discourse. Advisors: Prof. Dr. Hans-Ingo Radatz (Bamberg) and Prof. Dr. Josep Martines (Alacant).
Other Interests
- Library and information studies
- Natural language processing
- Knowledge organization
- Dictionaries and terminology
- Lexicography as information science
- Digital humanities