Fitxa persona

Julia Sanmartín Sáez is Professor of the Department of Spanish Philology (teaching area of Spanish Language) at the University of Valencia since 2001. She has four six-year research periods and five five-year teaching periods. She has been director of the Master's Degree in Advanced Hispanic Studies (2010-2012), secretary of IULMA (2015-2018) and coordinator of International Programmes managed by the Vice-Rectorate for International Relations (2003-2019).

She received her PhD in Hispanic Philology from the University of Valencia, with an extraordinary doctorate prize, with a thesis on the slang of delinquency (awarded the Fernández Abril prize by the RAE). She has maintained this first line of research until the present day, focusing on the characterisation of group slang based on its detection in primary sources (oral, media and digital) and from different perspectives (thus, the use of slang as a stylistic resource). He has combined this lexicological perspective with the lexicographical one by publishing a Diccionario de argot (Espasa, 1998-2006) and with the metalexicographical one by dealing with the description of slang dictionaries and markup in lexicography.

Since 1993, she has been a member of the VALESCO Research Group, and has developed a second line of work with continuous work on the collection and analysis of three oral corpora. She has participated with the VALESCO Group in the elaboration of a corpus of colloquial conversations (Corpus de conversaciones coloquiales (Arco, 2002), in the development of a system for the recognition of colloquial conversation; in the delimitation of discourse units, Un sistema de unidades para el estudio del lenguaje coloquial (Estudios de Lingüística del Español, 2014); and in the drafting of the Diccionario de Partículas Discursivas del español (online, 2008). He has also collaborated with the PRESEEA project (Gómez Molina coord. 2001) in obtaining the corpus, El español hablado de Valencia, and with GRUPO PERLA (Gallardo Paúls 2005) in the edition of a corpus of aphasic language. His continued dedication to obtaining oral corpora has enabled him to design a proposal for the transcription of spoken language and an evaluation of the different transcription systems.

Since 2000, he has developed a third area of specialisation with the pragmalinguistic analysis of the lexicon of colloquial Spanish (common slang or urban jargon). He has studied the different procedures of lexical creation and, in particular, he has reviewed metaphor, borrowings and suffixation.  It has also initiated a novel analysis by detecting and quantifying the productivity of word formation procedures linked to the colloquial in three corpora (oral, media and digital). It has thus contributed to the knowledge of the colloquial lexicon, to the detection of its primary digital sources (social networks) and to the identification of lexical novelties in this register. Moreover, it has now added a diachronic perspective to the study of the colloquial lexicon, considering its evolution from the 20th to the 21st century.

In 2004, he has initiated a fourth line of research in neology, by setting up and directing the Neology Group of the University of Valencia, which collaborates with OBNEO in the project of the Network of Observatories of Neology of Peninsular Spanish (NEOROC). From this research orientation, he has published several studies on neologisms, focusing on the analysis of neologisms in the media from a contrastive geolectal perspective and on the revision of procedures more closely linked to the informal register, such as shortenings.

A fifth line of research has been the study and characterisation of digital genres, a line that began in 2008 with Chat. La conversación tecnológica (Arco Libro) and continued today with the delimitation of a theoretical proposal to describe the cyber-genres of tourism 2.0 (institutional websites and social networks), as well as the responses to digital comments, considered as a chained genre. This line of research is linked to the consideration that responses to comments respond to a series of attenuation and politeness strategies, including the treatment formulas themselves.

The sixth line of research began in 2010 with the analysis of the tourism lexicon and the publication of a multilingual tourism lexicographical resource: Cometval Group Multilingual Dictionary of Tourism (online, 2014). He has developed the analysis of the tourism lexicon both from a lexicological orientation and from a perspective closer to the terminology and terminological regulation of the sector, always from the consideration that the lexicon must be inserted in specific discursive coordinates (discursive genres) and in its variability in the geolectal framework.

Finally, she has been integrated in the ESPRINT project that investigates pragmatic-rhetorical strategies in the conflictive conversational interaction between intimates and acquaintances; and she has published several articles on this issue, such as the way of reproducing the discourse used by the therapist in couple therapie.

All these lines of research have contributed to the results of the nine research projects in which he has participated or directed, including, among others, and Discursive Particles of Spanish, , Pragmatic attenuation in spoken Spanish: its diaphasic and diatopic variation, The measurement of neologicity and dictionariness of neologisms in Spanish and especially, Lexical and discursive analysis of parallel and comparable corpora (Spanish-English-French) of tourism promotion websites; and the two most recent ones, Pragmatic-rhetorical strategies in conflictive conversational interaction between intimates and acquaintances: intensification, attenuation and interactional management (ESPRINT) and Contributions to a diachronic characterisation of the twentieth century.