Paz Battaner


María Paz Battaner Arias is a Spanish philologist and lexicographer. Since 29 January 2017 member of Spanish Royal Academy. She was elected on December 3, 2015 to fill the chair s, vacant since the death in 2013 of José Luis Pinillos. He has directed and published several dictionaries and carried out numerous works on the didactics of the language. His main lines of research are lexicology and lexicography, 19th century political language, specialised language and the didactics of the Spanish language.

Biography

He graduated in Romance Philology at Salamanca University. At that time, they taught at this university Alonso Zamora Vicente, Fernando Lázaro Carreter and Antonio Tovar, especially with the couple formed by the former and María Josefa Canellada. She was an assistant professor at that University and between 1962 and 1963 Assistant of Spanish Language at the Bordeaux Academy; from 1963 to 1980 she taught at secondary schools in Vitoria, Murcia and Hospitalet de Llobregat. He earned his doctorate in 1973 with the thesis Vocabulario político y social en España, 1869-1873, directed by Eugenio de Bustos, printed five years later. She then worked from 1980 to 1993 as a full professor at Universidad de Barcelona. From 1993 to the present, she is Professor of Spanish Philology at Universidad Pompeu Fabra and coordinated the research group Infolex of its Instituto Universitario de Lingüística Aplicada. He is a member of Euralex, DSNA and AELEX and is part of the steering committee of the Revista de Lexicografía. She directed thirteen doctoral theses and advised Televisión Española on the show Hablando claro. She was Dean of the Faculty of Translation and Interpretation at Pompeu Fabra University. From May 2008 until March 2015 she was Síndic de Greuges of Pompeu Fabra University.
In 2006 she was awarded Medalla Narcís Monturiol by Generalitat de Catalunya. Currently she is Emeritus Professor of Spanish Philology at Universidad Pompeu Fabra and chaired AELEX. He participated in the project "Semantic grouping and lexicological relations in the dictionary" directed by Janet DeCesaris. and works on an Electronic Dictionary of Learning.
She is married to her teacher Carlos Calleja.

Works