M. Teresa Turell (Ph.D. Universitat de Barcelona (1981)) was Professor of English Linguistics at Universitat de Barcelona (1986-1992) and Universitat Rovira i Virgili (1992-1994). Since 1994 she has been Professor of English Linguistics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) and Head of the English Section of the Departament de Traducció i Filologia, and of the research group UVAL (Language Variation Research Unit) of the Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada (IULA) at this same university. She is the director of the IULA Ph.D. program on Language Sciences and Applied Linguistics (2002-2004). She has conducted extensive research on Catalan and English sociolinguistic variation, and more recently on qualitative and quantitative studies of language contact. Results of this research have appeared in Language Variation and Change, Language in Society and Treballs de Sociolingüística Catalana. She is the author of No One-to-One in Grammar (1983), Elements per a la Recerca Sociolingüística a Catalunya (1984), Nuevas Corrientes Lingüísticas (1990), La Sociolingüística de la Variació (1995) and Multilingualism in Spain (2001). She has carried out and supervised extensive research on the interplay between internal and external factors in the bilingual speech modes of linguistic minority groups in Spain and on the variable nature of second and foreign language acquisition and learning. Her recent research interests include the analysis of the interface between lexicon and syntax, and between syntax and pragmatics in language contact studies, global approaches to code-switching practices, and more recently, forensic studies of plagiarism applied to literary translation, which were conducted at the University of Birmingham.

UNESCO CODES

5705 (SYNCHRONIC LINGUISTICS)
5705 10 (SOCIOLINGUISTICS)
5705 99 (LANGUAGE VARIATION AND CHANGE) - (FORENSIC LINGUISTICS)
5701 (APPLIED LINGUISTICS)