Maria Josep Marín i Jordà (València, May 26, 1960) holds a PhD in Catalan Philology. She gained her university formation in the Department of Catalan Philology at the University of Valencia, where she is a tenured professor since 2010. She was also a lecturer in the Department of Spanish Philology, General Linguistics and Literature Theory of the University of Alicante (1998-2001) and lecturer in the Department of Applied Linguistics of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (2001-2010).
Teaching
As a tenured professor at the University of Valencia, she lectures in the Degree of Catalan Philology, in the Degree of Translation and Cross-linguistic Mediation, and in the Master in Linguistic Consulting and Literary Culture.
Research
Dr. Maria Josep Marín’s research interests are centered on the analysis of political discourse within the wider research field of oral language communication. Her research follows a theoretical and applied framework which assumes language usage as the starting point to understand and highlight the relations and interfaces among the various linguistic levels related to communicative meaning (syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and cognitive).
Maria Josep Marín’s research falls within the scope of Cognitive Linguistics and, specifically, within modern studies on grammaticalization. Her work focuses on the study of discourse markers as cohesive devices, linguistic courtesy and argumentative strategies in various oral genres, such as electoral debate, political interview and colloquial conversation.
She has taken part in several research projects funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the Spanish Government, among them:
- Cohesión y argumentación en géneros conversacionales (COHARGUMENT). 2012-2015. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (reference code FFI2011-25236).
- Coherencia textual y estilos discursivos (COHESTIL). 2009-2011. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (reference code FFI2008-01230/FILO).
- Pragmática, estilo e identidades: análisis de rasgos verbales y no verbales en el discurso de hablantes plurilingües (PRAGMAESTIL). 2005-2008 (reference code HUM2005-1936/FILO).
At present, she is a researcher in the project Grammar, Pragmatics and Multimodal Interaction (GRAMPINT, reference code FFI2014-56258-P).
Since 2012, she is the editor-in-chief of Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia.