Profile (CV) of the research teaching staff

Ibarretxe Antuñano, Blanca Iraide
Department: Departamento de Lingüística y Literaturas Hispánicas
Field: Lingüística General
Faculty: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras

Research Institute: INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN PATRIMONIO Y HUMANIDADES (IPH)

Number of 6-year periods of research productivity evaluation
  • CNEAI research evaluation. 01/01/22
  • CNEAI research evaluation. 01/01/16
  • CNEAI research evaluation. 01/01/10
  • CNEAI research evaluation. 01/01/09
Academic position: Cated. Universidad
Email: iraide@unizar.es
ORCID number: 0000-0002-0241-9265

Research interests
  • Lingüística
  • Lexicología
  • Semántica
  • Psicolingüística
  • Lenguas romances
  • Vasco
  • Lenguas germánicas
  • Lingüística aplicada

University degrees
  • Diploma de Formación Pedagógica para el Profesorado Universitario. Universidad de Zaragoza. 2007
  • Certificate in Scottish Studies. University of Edinburgh. 1999
  • Certificado de Aptitud Pedagógica. Universidad de Deusto. Instituto de Ciencias de la Educación. 1996
  • Licenciado en Filosofía y Letras Sección Filología Inglesa. Universidad de Deusto. 1995

PhDs
  • PhD in Linguistics. University of Edinburgh. 2000

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BA in Philosophy and Letters (U.Deusto, 1995), PhD in Linguistics (U.Edinburgh, 2000), and Full Professor of General Linguistics at the U.Zaragoza.
Her research focuses on the relationship between language, cognition, and communication from a cognitive, typological, and psycholinguistic perspective. Her scientific output centers on language motivation, particularly semantics (lexicalization and polysemy), iconicity (ideophones, sound symbolism, and gesture), and the relationship between metaphor, embodiment, and culture. She has participated in national and international scientific forums as a speaker (153) or invited speaker (97), and has (co-)published more than one hundred academic works, including journal articles (73), book chapters (100), and books (12). This trajectory has resulted in an h-index of 39, placing her among the top 5% of most cited researchers in Spain and establishing her as an international reference in these areas.
Visiting researcher at the International Computer Science Institute-Berkeley, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics-Netherlands, UConcepción-Chile, UC Berkeley, and Lund U.-Sweden. Served as principal investigator of several projects on metaphor, semantic typology, and psycholinguistics (FFI2010-14903,FFI2013-45553-C3-1-P,FFI2017-82460-P,LMP143_21), and as a researcher in international projects (Evolution of Semantic Systems-MPI, Causality across Languages-USNSF/BCS-1535846, and Arbitrary and Motivated Aspects of Sound-Symbolic Meaning-Japan Society-17K02679). Sher currently leads the MOTIV project (MINECO, PID2021-123302NB-I00), coordinates the ICON Campus Iberus Action Group, and is a researcher at the Institute for Heritage and Humanities of the U. Zaragoza (Psylex/UZ-DGA H11_17R). Her research has been recognized with several awards, including the John Orr Research Award (U.Edinburgh 1996/1997/1998) and the AESLA “Rafael Monroy” Research Award (2020), together with her election as a member of Academia Europaea.
In teaching, she has supervised 6 international PhD dissertations and currently 3 more (FPU/DGA/FPI). She leads the university teaching innovation group “INNOLINGUA+. Linguistics in Action” (GIDU_24; CIFICE) and coordinates the teaching innovation initiative “Linguistics for Everyone,” winner of the 15th Santander–U.Zaragoza Award and finalist in the Archiletras de la Lengua Awards.
Mmember of editorial boards (RCL, Cognitive Linguistics, VIAL), scientific committees (Oihenart, Triangle, FLV), and (inter)national evaluation panels (ANEP, FONDECYT, FWO, AGAUR, GIF, HCÈRES, UNIBASQ). She has served as Secretary of AELCO (2004–08; 2012–16), Director of the Lexicography and Lexicology Panel of AESLA (2013–19), and collaborator with the Scientific and Technical Coordination, Evaluation, and Monitoring Division of the Spanish State Research Agency (2018–21).
Committed to science communication and knowledge transfer, she regularly collaborates in public outreach forums (Researchers’ Night, Pint of Science, Naukas, TEDx Talks, and Divulgación Innovadora D+i), radio programs (RNE, Aragón Radio, Radio Euskadi), and general-interest newspapers and magazines (Heraldo de Aragón, Tercer Milenio, The Conversation). Associate Editor of Ciencia Cognitiva, coordinator of the multimedia repository Zaragoza Lingüística a la Carta (PII-2020-0028), expert consultant in multimodal communication, Director of the Inclusive Communication Guide of the U.Zaragoza, and contributor to Revista Archiletras.

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