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Eduardo Urios-Aparisi

Assistant Professor of Spanish and Coordinator of Spanish Program

Education

Ph.D. in Pragmatics, University of Illinois, Chicago, 2000; Ph.D. in Ancient Greek, University of Glasgow 1992

Areas of Expertise

Pragmatics, Linguistics, Metaphor

Contact Information

Office/Hours: Arjona 116 Tue-Th 12:30 - 1:30 and by appointment.
Phone: 860-486-3314
E-mail: eduardo.urios-aparisi@uconn.edu
Website

Bio:

Pragmatics, Metaphor, Discourse Analysis, Politeness Theory and Applied Linguistics. He has published with G. Reyes and E. Baena Ejercicios de pragmática, 2 vol. (2000 Madrid: Arco Libros), and in a diversity of fields including metaphor ("Quarrelling about metaphor on love a pragmatic approach," in M. E. Placencia & R. Márquez-Reiter (Eds.), Current Trends in the Pragmatics of Spanish, (Amsterdam: John Benjamins Press 2004), Greek comedy and literature, and also in creative writing. He is currently working on multimodal metaphor in Television commercials and in cinema, and on teacher-student interaction.