Sol Rojas-Lizana  | | | | Associate Lecturer |
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Sol Rojas-Lizana’s research interests include: (critical) discourse analysis, pragmatics, politeness studies, applied cognitive linguistics and cultural studies. Her current project involves the use of applied cognitive linguistics in the teaching of Spanish as a second language. She also writes about the discursive and formal patterns found in the everyday genres from Australia and the Hispanic World. Her research has a multidisciplinary approach based in Social Constructionism. Sol’s first university studies covered Spanish Literature/Education/Teacher Training at the Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación in Chile. She completed a BA in Classics (Latin) and Honours in African Studies (literature) at the University of Cape Town with the thesis: Feminism and historical reality in two ‘third world’ writers: Mariama Bâ (Senegal) and Ángeles Mastreta (Mexico): a comparison. In 1994 she arrived in the Galapagos Islands where she worked 6 years as editor translator and library assistant for the Publications Unit of the Charles Darwin Foundation. In 2002 she graduated with a MA (linguistics) from the University of Queensland and in 2007 with a PhD. Her thesis was titled: Letters to the editor in the local press: genre and discourse in everyday texts from Australia and Chile. Sol is currently an Associate Lecturer in the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies. She teaches Spanish language and Cultural Studies subjects. Sol is also a UQ ALLY and a UQ Discrimination and Harassment Contact Officer.
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