Leonor Ruiz Gurillo

Leonor Ruiz Gurillo is a Professor of Spanish language at the Department of Spanish Philology, General Linguistics and Theory of Literature at the University of Alicante. She specialises in a range of topics on Spanish phraseology, colloquial Spanish, pragmatics, irony and humour. Some of her most distinguished works are Aspectos de fraseología teórica española (Valencia, University, 1997), La fraseología del español coloquial (Barcelona, Ariel, 1998), Las locuciones en español actual (Madrid, Arco Libros, 2001), Ejercicios de fraseología (Madrid, Arco Libros, 2002), Hechos pragmáticos del español (Alicante, University, 2006), La lingüística del humor en español (Madrid, Arco/Libros, 2012) and Humor de género. Del texto a la identidad en español (Madrid, Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2019). She is a founding member of the Val.Es.Co. group (Valencia, Español Coloquial), coordinated by Antonio Briz, and the EPA-IULMA research group. Likewise, she is also a member of IULMA (Instituto Interuniversitario de Lenguas Modernas y Aplicadas) and IUIEG (Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Estudios de Género). Since 2002 she has directed the GRIALE research group, which deals with the pragmatic analysis of irony and humour and their didactic application to the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language. Furthermore, she currently directs the GRIALE projects “El humor interaccional en español. Géneros orales, escritos y tecnológicos” (HUMORACTION) PID2019-107265GB-I00 (MICIN, AEI) and “Etiquetaje pragmático para un observatorio de la identidad de mujeres y hombres a través del humor. La plataforma Observahumor.com” (OBSERVAHUMOR.COM) PROMETEO/2021/079.