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Beatriz Gallardo-Paúls (ORCID 0000-0001-6023-3947) is full professor of Linguistics at the University of Valencia since 2009. Her research career has focused mainly on the field of Benvenistian cognitive linguistics, developing proposals and analyses related to pragmatics. Her thesis (1992) proposed a perceptual-based theoretical model for the conversational discourse analysis, published in books such as Lingüística perceptiva y conversación: secuencias (1993) or Análisis conversacional y pragmática del receptor (1996). She has developed her research work focusing on two large applied areas: clinical linguistics and the analysis of public discourse. In the first area, she has studied the pragmatics of speakers with aphasia, ADHD, Williams syndrome or right hemisphere injuries. She was a pioneer in the development of clinical data corpora in Spanish (the PerLA corpus, Perception, Language and Aphasia), as well as in the development of pragmatic assessment tests for speakers with brain damage (for example, the PREP: Rapid Pragmatic Assessment Protocol). Along with multiple chapters and articles in indexed journals, books such as Afasia and conversation (2005), Pragmatics for speech therapists (2007) or Clinical linguistics (2014, with Carlos Hernández) belong to this stage. In the last decade, she has focused her interests on the analysis of political and media discourse, with the development of a model for the analysis of the discursive framework that covers all levels of pragmatics and overcomes the limitations of lexical models. This stage includes the publication of books such as Usos políticos del lenguaje (2014), Pseudopolítica: el discurso político en redes sociales (1996, with Salvador Enguix), Tiempos de hipérbole (2018), La voz más alta. Ruido mediático, opinión pública y Estado de Derecho (2021, with José Luis Espinosa), Signos rotos. Fracturas de lenguaje en la esfera pública (2022) y Contra el lenguaje. La connotación política en la era del sobresalto (2024) y La desinformación (2025).