Dr. David Sotoca-Fernández

Muchas gracias!! 💖💖💖

Dr. David Sotoca-Fernández and the members of the Center of Irish Studies in Caceres at his PhD defense ceremony.

Dr. Sotoca and the members of his PhD Committee (from left to right: Brian Clancy, Nuria Calvo and Bernardo Santano).

So I just turned Dr. Sotoca last Friday! ✨ Thank you to all my colleagues at @cirishcaceres.bsky.social and to my PhD Supervisor @linguistonbike.bsky.social for being the best companions throughout this process. Go raibh maith agat! 🍀

Couldn’t have done it without my amazing supervisor!! 💖💖💖

I had a wonderful time as part of this amazing team from the Faculty of Education and Psychology of the Universidad de Extremadura during the European Researchers’ Nights in Badajoz ✨

So happy I had the chance to deliver our presentation "Ethically Curating Legacy Digital Audio and Textual Data for Open Science", coauthored with Prof. Karen P. Corrigan and @linguistonbike.bsky.social at @fomaplaymeeting.bsky.social. I can't wait to be back in Granada soon! 💖

So excited to present my research alongside @linguistonbike.bsky.social and Nancy Avila Ledesma at @fomaplaymeeting.bsky.social

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AEDEI opens two calls that will support quality research in the field of Irish Studies in Spain: the Eibhear Walshe Research Grants. One call funds one pre-doctoral project, and another one supports a postdoctoral/ senior research project. Deadline for applications is open until 15th September.

My favourite line from #ICAME46 so far: "linguists can also be fanatic about something". It's a curse and a blessing! 😁

Back after the coffee break (bring your walking shoes! getting a few steps in today 🏃‍♀️): David Sotoca Fernández & Carolina Amador-Moreno presenting on "Letter-writing and speech act analysis: Tracing (im)politeness patterns in historical Irish
English" #SpeechActsWorkshop #ICAME46

So excited to be a part of this! 😄

Last week, project member Dr. Iria Seijas Pérez attended the 23rd AEDEI conference at the Universidad de Huelva, where she talked about sapphic terminology in Irish YA fiction with wonderful colleague David Sotoca Fernández from Universidad de Extremadura 📚📝📒

So grateful to work alongside this amazing group of people 💖

Today marks the end of yet another wonderful and enriching AEDEI conference surrounded by dear friends and colleagues. Always a pleasure to come back to our academic family.

Jesús Candelario Menacho and David Sotoca Fernández delivered their paper “Tracing (Im)politeness through cross-cultural historical corpora” at the AEDEI 2025 conference this morning in Huelva 💖👏

Delighted to have presented my talk “From Dyke to Lesbian: The Uses of Sapphic Terminology in Irish Young Adult Fiction” with the wonderful Dr. Iria Seijas-Pérez at the AEDEI 2025 Conference in Huelva 💖🍀

Presenting the results from my latest article “If this be Irish gratitude, I could wish myself a Frenchman” at the #CILC25 Conference in Salamanca this morning. Thank you to everyone involved for such an enriching experience!

So excited to be a part of this! 💖

Prestigious grant for research in medieval English Professor Merja Stenroos has been awarded the most prestigious grant from the EU, the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant. It is the first time a UiS research project has been awarded a gra...

Warm congratulations to #HCASalumni Merja Stenroos (University of Stavanger) on receiving the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant! Prof. Stenroos was able to do preliminary research for the project & prepare the ERC application while working as Core Fellow at HCAS in 2022–2023

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Webinar: How to Publish a Trade or Crossover Book Learn what scholarly writers need to know when trying to publish for broader readerships and markets. Webinar hosted by Laura Portwood-Stacer with guest Kate McKean, literary agent and author of Write...

I'm doing a webinar with @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social on May 7th about How to Publish a Trade or Crossover Book. If you're an academic looking to break into trade publishing, this is for you! Sign up here! courses.manuscriptworks.com/courses/trad...

So excited to announce that my latest article “If this be Irish gratitude, I could wish myself a Frenchman” has just been published online on the Journal of Historical Pragmatics:

www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

The festivities of St. Patrick’s also had a special appearance in @cextremadura.bsky.social 🍀🥳 In the snippet you can see the students of IES Ágora having a grand time dancing the céilidh! 💃🏻🕺🏻 Go raibh maith agat 💫💖

We had a great St. Patrick's Day celebration today! Thank you to all the participants. ¡Gracias y hasta el año que viene! 💚

In our first workshop, our member David Sotoca-Fernández has delivered a talk titled “¿Cómo suena el inglés de Irlanda?” to students from the IES Javier García Téllez in Cáceres.

So excited to be a part of this 💖🍀

St. Patrick's Day 2025 The Center of Irish Studies in Cáceres (UEx) will be hosting our I Jornada de Difusión de la Cultura Irlandesa de la UEx at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (Universidad de Extremadura,...

We are delighted to announce that the Center of Irish Studies in Cáceres will be organizing the first Jornada de Difusión de la Cultura Irlandesa de la UEx for St. Patrick’s Day! You can learn more about the event here: ciscaceres.weebly.com/st-patricks-...

Winner, Macquarie Dictionary (Australia) Word of the year 2024

Screen shot of CoCA output showing "glass half full" (n = 123) is twice as frequent as "glass half empty" (n = 54)

Optimist: glass half full
Pessimist: glass half empty
Corpus Linguist: Which word most frequently appears in the phrase "glass half *"?

I forget who said at least Cambridge’s word wasn’t “demure,” but Dictionary dot com went there.

Thank you!! 😄👏💖💃