In Other Words

A Contextualized Dictionary to Problematize Otherness

Author

Anna González Gasiorowska

Biodata

Anna González is a PhD student at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). She holds a degree in English Studies and a Master’s degree in Teacher Training from the same university. Her academic work focuses on the relationship between language, cognition and society, with particular attention to the linguistic representation of health-related issues. Her academic trajectory includes participation in a research initiation programme funded by the University of Castilla-La Mancha and Banco Santander, which supported her early research activities in linguistics. 

Her research interests lie primarily in cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. She is particularly interested in the use of metaphor and euphemism in the representation of eating disorders, as well as in the cultural and sociocognitive factors that shape how these disorders are understood and discussed. Her work explores the relationship between language, body image and social perceptions of health. 

Contacts

Anna dot Gonzalez at uclm dot es

Words

EDs-eating disorders editing in progress