Postdoctoral researcher
email: martapacheco@uma.es
Marta Pacheco-Franco is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English at the University of Málaga. After graduating in English Studies (2017), she became an intern at the University of Guelph (2018), Canada, and later obtained two Master’s degrees: first on Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language (2019) and then on English Studies and Multilingual Communication (2020). Her dissertation, titled Spelling Variation across Time: A Study on Colour-, Theatre– and Licence-type Words, combines her research interests: namely, Historical linguistics and World Englishes, with a particular inclination towards orthographic variation.
Teaching
Marta Pacheco-Franco currently teaches Advanced Syntax at undergraduate level to students pursuing their joint Degree on English Studies and Primary Education. Previously, she has taught Upper-Intermediate English as well as Beginner and Intermediate Spanish, the latter during her internship at the University of Guelph, Canada (2018-2019).
Publications
(In preparation). “‘Soas to avoid all Equivocal words and Anomalous variations’: The Influence of Prescriptivism on Spelling Variation». Studia Neophilologica 96.2.
(In preparation). «Punctuation Practice in Palladius’ Practise of Husbandry: A Poem or a Treatise?». In Joanna Kopaczyk et al. (eds.). Philology Reimagined: English in Transmission. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [with Javier Calle-Martín].
(In press). «Lengua y creatividad: Sobre el prescriptivismo lingüístico de Robert Lowth». In Pedro J. Chamizo Domínguez (eds.). La creatividad en las humanidades: Perspectivas singulares y universales. Sevilla: Renacimiento. 109-126 [with Javier Calle-Martín].
(2024). «Webster’s Spelling Reform: From –our to –or in colour-type words». In Javier Calle-Martín and Jesús Romero-Barranco (eds.). Corpora and Language Change in Late Modern English. Bern – Berlin – Bruxelles – Frankfurt am Main – New York: Peter Lang. 263-280.
(2024). «Verbal Contractions in Late Modern English». In Javier Calle-Martín and Jesús Romero-Barranco (eds.). Corpora and Language Change in Late Modern English. Bern – Berlin – Bruxelles – Frankfurt am Main – New York: Peter Lang. 281-304. [with Javier Calle-Martín].
(2023). «‘The night before beg’d ye queens’s pardon and his brother’s’: The Apostrophe in the History of English». English Language and Linguistics: 1-20 [with Javier Calle-Martín].
(2023). «Order out of Chaos: The Orthographic Standardisation of full and –ful». English Studies 104.5: 789-803.
(2023). «Spelling Variation in Inner-Circle Englishes». Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies 45.1: 168-189.
(2023). «Pandemias del pasado: La peste bubónica en los tratados de medicina medievales y modernos». In Asunción Rallo Gruss (ed.). Arco de sombras. Madrid: Dykinson. 243-256 [with Javier Calle-Martín].
(2022). «Prescriptivismo y regularización ortográfica: El caso de –ise vs –ize». In Pilar Guerrero-Medina and Soledad Díaz-Alarcón (eds.). Herramientas teóricas y fundamentos metodológicos en Filología y Traducción. Córdoba: Universidad de Córdoba – McGraw-Hill [with Javier Calle-Martín].
(2020). «La enseñanza de la cultura mediante el aprendizaje integrado de contenidos y lenguas extranjeras». Analecta Malacitana 41: 163-187.
(2020). «The Alternative -our vs. -or in the Outer Varieties of English Worldwide». Gaudeamus Journal 0: 67-85.
(2020). «Suffixes in Competition: On the Use of –our and –or in Early Modern English». International Journal of English Studies 20.2: 169-183 [with Javier Calle-Martín].
Conference papers
2023
«‘In long lif and helth with moche honour’: The Alternative –our/-or in Mediaeval Correspondence». 33rd International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM). Universidad de Murcia, September 13th-15th, 2023.
«Assessing Linguistic Prescription: On the Standardization of the Apostrophe». 12th Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference (HiSoN). Vrije Universiteit Brussel, May 31st-June 2nd, 2023 [with Javier Calle-Martín].
«On the Apostrophe in the History of English». 14th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics. Universidad de Oviedo, May 10th-12th, 2023 [with Javier Calle-Martín].
«Lengua y creatividad: Sobre el prescriptivismo lingüístico de Robert Lowth».V Seminario de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Universidad de Málaga, March 16th-17th, 2023 [with Javier Calle-Martín].
2022
«‘As I Love the Name of honour‘: Orthography in the L1 Varieties of English». 45th AEDEAN Conference. Universidad de Extremadura, November 16th-18th, 2022.
«The Morphology-Orthography Interface: A Needful Study». 32nd International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM). Universidad de La Rioja, September 14th-16th, 2022.
«Spelling Variation in Inner-Circle Englishes». 43rd ICAME Conference. Anglia Ruskin University, July 27th-30th, 2022.
«The Precept Corpus: On the Impact of Dictionaries in Fixing Spelling». 8th ASYRAS Conference. Universidad de Málaga, June 30th-July 1st, 2022.
«Working with Precept Corpora: A Proposal». VII Doctoral Symposium: Doctoral Programme in Linguistics, Literature and Translation. Universidad de Málaga, June 27th-29th, 2022.
«Usage or Precept? A Study on the Spelling Variants –ise/-ize in Modern English». 11th Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference (HiSoN). Universidad de Murcia, June 1st-3rd, 2022 [with Javier Calle-Martín].
«‘Write as we Speake’: On the question of spelling reform today». 13th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics. Università degli studi di Bergamo, May 26th-28th, 2022.
«Flipping the English grammar classroom: A pedagogical experiment for undergraduate students». 39th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Applied Linguistics (AESLA). Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, April 27th-29th, 2022.
«Pandemias del pasado: La peste bubónica en los tratados de medicina medievales y modernos». IV Seminario de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras: La civilización en claroscuro. March 17th-18th, 2022 [with Javier Calle-Martín].
2021
«Suffixes in Competition: The Alternative –our/-or in English». 44th AEDEAN Conference. Universidad de Cantabria, November 24th-26th, 2021.»
«Assessing Prescriptivism: on the Standardisation of the Spelling Variants –our/-or, –er/-re and –ce/-se in Modern English». 6th Prescriptivism Conference. Universidad de Vigo, September 23rd-25th, 2021.
«»Spelling Variation in the History of the English Language». II AEDEAN Doctoral Seminar. Universidad de Alicante, July 1st-2nd, 2021.
«Enduring or Resisting Americanisation in English Spelling? A Brief Overview of Orthographic Variants in L1 Varities». VI Doctoral Symposium: Doctoral Programme in Linguistics, Literature and Translation. Universidad de Málaga, June 21st-23rd, 2021.
«Simplifying Spelling? A Study on Speakers’ Spelling Preferences and Spelling Reform». 7th ASYRAS Conference. Universidad de Málaga, June 17th-18th, 2021.
«Orthographic Variation in English: A Contrastive Study on the Distribution of Word-final Spelling Variants in Language Online and Offline». 12th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics. Universidad de Murcia, April 28th-30th, 2021.
2020
“Orthography in Online English: The –our/-or Alternative in English Worldwide”. III Congreso Internacional de Lingüística Computacional y de Corpus. University of Antioquia, October 21st-23rd, 2020.
“Suffixes in Competition: On the Distribution of the Suffixes –our and –or in Early Modern English”. II ASYRAS Research Workshop in English Studies. Virtual event, September 8th-9th, 2020.