
Dr Patricia Bou Franch
Professor of Linguistics
patricia.bou@uv.es
IULMA – Institut Interuniversitari de Llengües Modernes Aplicades
Department de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya
Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació
Universitat de València
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1216-8869
Scopus Author ID: 36622219800
Researcher ID: E-5547-2016
Patricia Bou Franch is Professor of English linguistics at the Department of English and German Philology, University of Valencia, where she lectures undergraduate and graduate courses.
She is a research member of the Interuniversity Institute of Applied Modern Languages (IULMA). Her research interests include (digital) critical discourse analysis, sociopragmatics, and inter-/ cross-cultural communication. She has contributed chapters to international volumes and published papers in renown journals like Language & Communication, Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Pragmatics & Society, Journal of Politeness Research, Intercultural Pragmatics, Journal of Language and Politics, and Gender & Language, among others. She is editor of several volumes and special issues and cofounder of the Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis-ADDA Conference series.
She has evaluated manuscripts for international scholarly journals and publishers.
She serves on the board of :
- Spanish in Context (Co-editor, 2019-2024)
- Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict (Editorial board, since 2013)
- Internet Pragmatics (Editorial board, since 2017)
- Verbum et Lingua: Didáctica, Lengua y Cultura (Advisory board, since 2020)
- English Studies. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canarias (Scientific Committee, since 2018)
- Cambridge Scholars Publishers (Series: Advances in Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis)
Research Projects:
Patologización discursiva digital en Twitter, Instagram y TikTok. (PID2022-136840OB-I00)
Red temática sobre comunicación conflictiva y mediación: interacción, vínculos relacionales y cohesión social (CoCoMInt). (RED2022-134123-T)
La digitalización de la interacción humana y su impacto social (DIHIS):
Consecuencias, retos y concienciación de uso (UPO-1380703) (2021-2023)