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Biodata Ángel Felices Lago

Ángel Felices Lago has been Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences (UGR: University of Granada) since 1995. He took a M.A. degree in English (1983), Romance Languages (1984) and French (1988) at the UGR and received his PhD in English Philology at the same university in 1991. He teaches English for business and tourism at the Faculty of Economics since 1984, Spanish for economics at the Centre for Modern Languages since 1991 and graduate and Ph D courses at the Department of English and German Philology since 1995. He has taught discipline-related terminology or communication issues in English or Spanish in other Master`s degrees: Finance and Banking, Tourism Management, Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language at the UGR and Teaching/Learning Spanish language and Culture in cooperation with the Spanish Embassy at Washington, D.C. He was Associate Dean for International Relations at the Faculty mentioned above from 1992 to 2001 and Director of the Centre for Modern Languages from May 2001 to January 2008.

His main areas of research interest go from lexicology and lexicography to axiological linguistics, didactics applied to languages for specific purposes and cross-cultural business communication. He has given plenty of plenary lectures, participated in various post-graduate courses or conducted seminars in universities and academic institutions from Spain (Alcalá, Córdoba, Jaén, Málaga, Madrid (UPM), Pamplona (UPN),  Santander (Menénez Pelayo)), and abroad (Bratislava, Katowice-Sosnowiecz (Poland), Moknine (Tunisia), Montreal, Moscow, Nador (Morocco), Nijmegen-HES Rotterdam, Prague, Pune (India), Sao Paulo, Swansea or Vienna). He has co-authored or co-edited scholar and pedagogical books or textbooks such as Español para el comercio internacional (Madrid, Edinumen, 1998), En el mundo de los negocios (multimedia textbook, CD-Rom and video in cooperation with the University of Economics at Bratislava, 2001), Cultura y negocios: el español de la economía española y latinoamericana (Madrid, Edinumen, 2003),  Current trends of languages for specific purposes in an international and multicultural context. (Granada, Universidad, 2004) and   Empresa Siglo  XXI (Madrid, Edinumen, 2008). He has also published over 60  scholarly articles and reviews which have appeared in specialised national and international journals (RESLA, Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, Quaderns de Filologìa, Ibérica, LSP and Professional Communication, Hermes, Foro Hispánico, Unesco Alsed-LSP Newsletter, Lebende Sprachen, Linguistic Insights, Studies in Language Companion Series, etc.) and books (book chapters) published in well-known publishing companies (Peter Lang, John Benjamins, Rodopi, Franco Angeli, Vox-Biblograf, IFOTT, etc.).

He is also the head of a research group: Languages applied to professional and academic contexts, funded by the Regional Government of Andalucia (HUM 641), has directed a doctoral dissertation, a few Master`s thesis and is currently directing two more PhD dissertations. In cooperation with universities from various European countries, he is co-directing or has  co-directed several academic projects funded by the European Commission in TEMPUS, LEONARDO and SOCRATES-ERASMUS programmes. The research or activities done were related to LSP in the area of business, training in cross-cultural business relations or curricula developments. He has participated in four research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education- DGICYT (PB nº 222, PB 94/0437) and the Junta de Andalucía (Project 541 A-609 and project 1321). He is corresponding editor (in Spain) for the US journal Mediterranean Studies and member of the editorial or international advisory boards of other journals: Ibérica (European Association of LSP), Materiales para la enseñanza multicultural (Spanish Embassy in Washington, DC), Ideas (Heilbronn, Germany) or Odisea (University of Almería).

In addition to research activity, since 2002 he has chaired 3 international conferences (Mediterranean Studies 2002 Conference, 2nd AELFE Conference (2004) and 2nd FIAPE Conference (2007)). He also was elected asAssociate President of AELFE (European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes) from December 1996 to June 2001 and appointed asInstitutional Coordinator at the Universidad de Granada for the Pilot project ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) from1992 to 2001.

Publications

Sample of publications

Books and editions

  • FELICES LAGO, Ángel; RUIZ LÓPEZ, Cecilia (1998) Español para el comercio internacional. Términos y expresiones esenciales en el mundo de los negocios.  Madrid: Edinumen.
  • LENGHARDTOVÁ, Jana; FELICES LAGO, Ángel et alii (2001) En el mundo de los negocios. (Textbook, CD-Rom, video, workbook). Bratislava: Ekonomická univerzita v Bratislave.
  • FELICES LAGO, Ángel; CALDERÓN, Mª Ángeles; IRIARTE, Emilio; NÚÑEZ, Emilia (2003): Cultura y negocios. El español de la economía española y latino-americana. Madrid: Edinumen.
  • FELICES LAGO, Ángel y SANZ SÁINZ, Inmaculada (2004) [Editors]: Current trends of languages for specific purposes in an international and multicultural context. Granada: Universidad.
  • IRIARTE, Emilio; NÚÑEZ, Emilia; FELICES LAGO, Ángel [Coordinator] (2008): Empresa Siglo XXI. El español en el ámbito profesional. Madrid: Edinumen.

 

Book chapters

  • FELICES LAGO, Ángel (1998): "El modelo lexemático-funcional: el legado universalista e integrador de Leocadio Martín Mingorance", Diccionarios e Informática: Lecciones del III Seminario de Lexicografía Hispánica. Jaén: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Jaén, pp. 97-110.
  • FELICES LAGO, Ángel (1999) "La Axiología Aplicada: Ejemplo del Desarrollo Clasemático a partir del Modelo Lexemático-Funcional", Estudios funcionales sobre léxico, sintaxis y traducción. Un homenaje a Leocadio Martín Mingorance. Mª José Feu Guijarro y Silvia Molina Plaza (eds.). Cuenca: Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, pp. 125-138.
  • FELICES LAGO, Ángel (2002) "Axiological Analysis of Brand Names Related to Drugs, Tobacco, Domestic and Household Appliances", A Life in Words (A miscellany celebrating twenty-five years of association between the English Department of Granada University and Mervyn Smale (1977-2002)). Margarita Carretero González, Encarnación Hidalgo Tenorio, Neil McLaren, Graeme Porte (eds.). Granada: Universidad, pp. 169-180.
  • FERNÁNDEZ MORALES, Cándida y FELICES LAGO, Ángel (2005) “A proposal to apply a new methodological approach to the teaching of reading texts in ESP contexts”, Languages for Academic and Professional Purposes in the 21st Century University Framework. Alejandro Curado, Mercedes Rico y otros (eds.). Cáceres: Universidad de Extremadura,  pp. 163-172.
  • FELICES LAGO, Ángel (2005) “Del ESP (English for Specific Purposes) al EFE (Español para Fines Específicos): Influencias desde la esfera anglosajona y panorama de esta especialidad en España”, Towards an understanding of the English language: Past, present and Future. Studies in Honour of Fernando Serrano. José Luis Martínez-Dueñas, Carmen Pérez, Neil McLaren y Luis Quereda (eds.). Granada: Universidad, pp. 61-72.
  • FELICES LAGO, Ángel (2008): “Las cualidades demandadas al solicitante de empleo en español frente al inglés: análisis semántico-axiológico de las ofertas de trabajo en la prensa española”, Lingue, culture, economia. Comunicazione e pratiche discorsive. Maria Vittoria Calvi, Giovanna Mapelli, Javier Santos López (eds.). Milán: Franco Angeli, pp. 95-110.
  • FELICES LAGO, Ángel, CORRAL HERNÁNDEZ, Ana (2008): “Axiological analysis of print advertisements related to ecological issues in The Economist”, Studies in honour of Neil McLaren, A man for all seasons. Ángeles Linde, Juan Santana, Celia Wallhead (eds.). Granada, Universidad, pp.  177-190.

 

Articles

  • FELICES LAGO, Ángel (1998) "Aproximación lexemático-funcional a los adjetivos que expresan el deseo", Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, nº 36, Universidad de La Laguna, pp. 65-83.
  • FELICES LAGO, Ángel. (1999) "Axiological Linguistics Applied to Branding: Analysis of Trade Names Related to Personal Care, Cloth and Footwear", Unesco Alsed-LSP Newsletter, Vol. 22, No. 2 (48) December 1999, pp. 16-27.
  • FELICES LAGO, Ángel (2000) "Revisión crítica de la enseñanza de los tecnolectos empresariales en España", Lebende Sprachen (Zeitschrift für fremde Sprachen in Wissenschaft und Praxis). XLV. Nr 2/2000, pp. 75-78.
  • FELICES LAGO, Ángel (2000) "Descripción axiológica de la terminología financiera del español y su equivalencia en portugués", Anuario brasileño de estudios hispánicos. 10, pp. 31-46.
  • FELICES LAGO, Ángel (2003) "Reformulation of the Domain-Level Semantic Pattern of Axiological Evaluation in the Lexicon of English", Hermes-Journal of Linguistics, no. 30-2003, pp. 179-198.
  • FELICES LAGO, Ángel (2004) "Parámetros para la orientación temática en el discurso prototípico de la economía sectorial", Foro Hispánico (Revista Hispánica de Flandes y Holanda), 26, pp. 99-115.
  • FELICES LAGO, Ángel y HEWITT, Elaine (2004) "Personal Qualities of Applicants in Job Advertisements: Axiological and Lexical Analysis of  Samples in English from the Spanish Press",LSP and Professional Communication, Vol. 4, n. 2, October 2004, pp. 8-27.
  • FELICES LAGO, Ángel (2005) "La teoría y la práctica en el desarrollo de la lengua para fines específicos en E/LE: revisión crítica de los logros de la última década", Quaderns de filologia. Serie Estudis Lingüístics, vol. X: Las lenguas de especialidad: Nuevas perspectivas de investigación. Mª Amparo Olivares Pardo and Francisca Suau Jiménez (eds.). Valencia: Universidad,  pp. 81-97.
  • FELICES LAGO, Ángel (2006): “La codificación del parámetro axiológico en la terminología financiera y de inversión: el español y el portugués frente a la influencia del inglés”, Nuevas tendencias en el discurso de especialidad. Maria Vittoria Calvi y Luisa Chierichetti (eds.). Linguistic Insights, vol. 50. (Studies in Language and Communication). Bern: Peter Lang, pp. 203-222.

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    Contact Info

    Ángel Miguel Felices Lago
    Universidad de Granada
    Departamento de Filologías Inglesa y Alemana
    Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales
    Campus de Cartuja s/n
    18071 Granada, Spain
    Tel.: (+34)-958-24 40 87.
    Mobile: (+34)619-311 768
    E-mail: afelices@ugr.es