FRANCISCO MIGUEL IVORRA PÉREZ

Francisco Miguel Ivorra Pérez is associate professor (LOSU-Profesor Permanente Laboral) in the English and German Department at the University of Valencia, member of IULMA-Valencia and Head of the Research Group SILVA (Group for Support for Investigation in Language Variation Analysis). He holds a Bachelor Degree and a PhD in English Philology (Specialization: Cross-cultural Pragmatics applied to ESP) by the Universty of Alicante and Master in EnglishTranslation and Interpretation by this University. His career starts as a grant holder of research and teaching (2006-2008) in the English Department at the University of Alicante and from 2009 to 2016 as a part-time professor in this same department. In 2016 he obtains a position as assitant lecturer in the English and German Department of the University of Valencia and in 2020 obtains a position as an associate professor in this same Department. His main areas of research are  English for Professional Purposes, Cross-cultural Pragmatics (English-Spanish) and Linguistic Variation (Synchronic Linguistics).  He is author of the book La comunicación intercultural y el discurso de los negocios, edited by the University of Alicante and has published several articles on cross-cultural pragmatics applied to professional and academic genres in national and international journals as well as book chapters. He has also participated in numerous national and international conferences. Currently, he is the coordinator of the unit of English for Specific Purposes.