Dr. Esther Pascual

Professional Experience

• Since 2022
  Associate Professor Institute of Linguistics, Shanghai International Studies University
  
  

• 2018 – 2021
  Research Associate Professor (‘100 Talents’ program), Dept. of Linguistics and Dept. Spanish Language & Culture, School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, China
  
  

• 2015 – 2018
  Research Assistant Professor (‘100 Talents’ program), Dept. of Linguistics and Dept. Spanish Language & Culture, School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, China
  
  

• 2009 – 2015
  Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication and Information Sciences, Groningen University, The Netherlands
  
  

• 2009
  Lecturer, Dept. of Communication and Information Sciences, Groningen University., The Netherlands
  
  

• 2008 – 2009
  Lecturer, ITV University of Applied Sciences for Translation and Interpreting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  
  

• 2006 – 2008
  Lecturer, Dept. of Language and Communication, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  
  

• 2005 – 2009
  Post-doctoral researcher, Dept. of Language and Communication, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  
  

• 2004
  Post-doctoral researcher, Dept. of English, Ghent University, Belgium
  
  

• 2003 – 2004
  Post-doctoral researcher, Dept. of English, Ghent University, Belgium and Dept. of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, USA
  
  

• 2003
  Post-doctoral research assistant, Dept. of Dutch, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  
  

• 2002
  Ph.D. researcher, Dept. of Dutch, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  
  

• 2000 – 2002
  Visiting Ph.D. researcher, Dept. of Cognitive Science and Center for Research in Language, University of California, San Diego, USA
  
  

• 1998 – 2000
  Junior lecturer, Dept. of Humanities, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
  
  

• 1997 – 2000
  Junior lecturer, Dept. of Linguistics, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
  
  

• 1997 – 1999
  Research assistant, Dept. of Sociology, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
  
  

Education

• 2003
  Ph.D. Humanities (Cognitive Linguistics), VU University Amsterdam
  
  

• 1999
  Research M.A. English Language, Autonomous University of Barcelona (cum laude)
  
  

• 1996
  Research M.A. English Language and Literature, University of Amsterdam (cum laude)
  
  

• 1995
  B.A. Anglo-Germanic Philology, Autonomous University of Barcelona
  
  

Books

• Pascual, E. & S. Sandler (eds.). 2016. The Conversation Frame: Forms and Functions of Fictive Interaction. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

• Pascual, E. 2014. Fictive Interaction: The Conversation Frame in Thought, Language, and Discourse. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Papers in international peer-reviewed journals

• Jarque, M.J. & E. Pascual. 2021 (by invitation). From gesture- and sign-in-interaction to grammar: Fictive questions for relative clauses in signed languages. Languages and Modalities 1: 81-93.

• Hu, Y., Q. Lv, E. Pascual, J. Liang & F. Huettig (by invitation). 2021. Syntactic priming in illiterate and literate elder Chinese adults. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science 5(2): 267-286.

• Fonseca, P., E. Pascual & T. Oakley. 2020. “Hi, Mr. President!”: Fictive interaction blends as a unifying rhetorical strategy in satire. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18(1): 183-216.

• Sandler, S. & E. Pascual. 2019. In the beginning there was conversation: Fictive speech in the Hebrew Bible. Pragmatics 29(2): 250-276.

• Pascual, E. & E. Królak. 2018. The ‘listen to characters thinking’ novel: Fictive interaction as narrative strategy in literary bestsellers and their Spanish and Polish translations. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 16(2): 399-430.

• Pascual, E., A. Dornelas, & T. Oakley. 2017. When ‘Goal!” means ‘soccer’: Verbatim fictive speech as communicative strategy by children with autism and two control groups. Pragmatics & Cognition 24(3): 315-345).

Handbook chapters (by invitation)

• Oakley, T. & E. Pascual. 2017. Conceptual blending theory. In B. Dancygier (ed.). Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. CUP, 423-448.

• Pascual, E. & T. Oakley. 2017. Fictive interaction. In B. Dancygier (ed.). Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. CUP, 347-360.

• "Fictive interaction as linguistic construction and communicative strategy". Hundred Talents Program for humanities and social sciences, Zhejiang University, 2015 – 2021

• "The Conversation Frame: Linguistic Forms and Communicative Functions in Discourse" (276.70.019), NWO (Vidi). University of Groningen, Principal Investigator, 2010 – 2015

• "Speech representation as re-contextualization: A comparative study of reported and constructed questions in Dutch and American criminal trials" (275-70-012), NWO (Veni, Innovation Scheme). VU University Amsterdam, Principal Investigator, 2005 – 2008

• "An ethnographic study of interaction and language use in criminal trials before the Flemish jury" (R 33-302), Travel grant, NWO. University of Ghent, Principal Investigator, 2004

• "A comparative study of fictive interaction clauses in Dutch and English" (S 20-3), Talent grant, NWO. University of Ghent and UC San Diego, Principal Investigator, 2003 – 2004

• "An ethnographic study of discourse processes in court" (020033S), Fulbright, UC San Diego, Principal Investigator, 2000 – 2002

• "Comparative research on waste management in the United Kingdom and Spain" (ENV4.CT96-0239), European Union. PI: prof. dr. E. Laraña, Complutense University of Madrid, Junior researcher, 1997 – 1999

• Editorial Service

• Editorial board member of the international peer-reviewed Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, since November 2020

• Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Language and Culture, since June 2020

• Editorial board member of the international SSCI and A&HCI indexed journal Journal of Linguistics, since January 2019

• Editorial board member of the book series Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, published by John Benjamins, since December 2019

• Founding co-editor-in-chief of the international peer-review journal Language Under Discussion (accredited as quality open access journal by OASPA), since July 2013

• Editorial board member of the international peer-review journal Veredas: Journal of Linguistic Studies, since May 2012

Service to the community

• Elected President (since 2018) and Vice-President (2016 – 2018) of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS)

• International Scientific Panel member of the European Network for Intercultural Education Activities (ENIEDA), since January 2018

• Expert committee member of the Zhejiang Province Foreign Languages Association, since October 2016

• Permanent member of the scientific committee of the Spanish Association of Cognitive Linguistics (AELCO), since September 2013

• Founding board member of the European Society for Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogue (ESTIDIA), since June 2012

• Board member of the Belgium and Netherlands Cognitive Linguistics Association (BeNeCLA), 2012 – 2014

• Elected member of the International Organizing Committee of the Language, Culture, and Mind conference series (LCM), since June 2010

• Founding board member and secretary of the Belgium and Netherlands Cognitive Linguistics Association (BeNeCLA), 2008 – 2010

Evaluation responsibilities

• Reviewer of 2020 LSHK Outstanding Thesis Award of the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK), November 2020

• Ad hoc reviewer of research proposals for: the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO, Veni and Vidi), since 2014; the Flanders Research Foundation (FWO), since 2016; the Research Council KU Leuven (Belgium); and the Research Council KU Leuven (Belgium), since 2014; and the National Science Centre (Poland), since 2019

• Permanent reviewer of research proposals for the European Commission (expert number: EX2013D141234), since September 2013

• Jury member of the 2013 Dissertation Award of the Dutch Linguistics Society (AVT) and the Dutch Society for Applied Linguistics (Anéla), 2013 – 2014

• Permanent reviewer of research proposals for Catalonia’s ‘Agency for Management of University and Research Grants’ (AGAUR), since 2011

• "Staatsexamens NT2", Dutch as second language for studying or working at academic university or university of applied sciences (HBO), July 2013

• "Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs" [Basic Teaching Qualification], required for university lecturing, May 2013

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