Pedro Antonio Fuertes Olivera

Dr. Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera is Full Professor at the University of Valladolid (Departamento de Filología Inglesa), Tutor at the UNED (Palencia), Extraordinary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch (Department of Afrikaans and Dutch), and Velux Professor at the University of Aarhus (2007-2008; 2011-2012). He has been keynote/plenary speaker in conferences held in Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, Namibia, Poland, South Africa, and Spain. He is currently the Head of the International Centre for Lexicography and Principal Investigator of several funded research projects and contracts with private institutions. He has authored more than 150 academic publications - e.g. he is the author of Mujer, Lenguaje y Sociedad: Los estereotipos de género en inglés y en español (1992), co-author of Pedagogical Specialised Lexicography (John Benjamins, 2008), and Theory and Practice of Specialised Online Dictionaries. Lexicography versus Terminography (De Gruyter, 2014), editor of Specialised Dictionaries for Learners (De Gruyter, 2010), and The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography (commissioned by Routledge, 2017); and co-editor of e-Lexicography: The Internet, Digital Initiatives and Lexicography (Continuum, 2011, and Bloomsbury, 2013). He is editor in chief of Diccionarios Valladolid-UVa, a dictionary portal containing 28 dictionaries (monolingual, bilingual, and specialised), which will be commercialized by Lemma.com, an inprint of Ordbogen A/S. This project prepares information tools for both human users and machines, makes use of up-to-date IT technologies, employs several lexicographers on part-time contracts, and is based on the tenets of the Function Theory of Lexicography.  More than one million euros will have been spent in this project before its commercialization, which is expected for late 2018 or early 2019.

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