Francisco Alonso Almeida

Dr Francisco Alonso Almeida is a Full Professor of English at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, specialising in applied linguistics, historical linguistics, (historical) discourse analysis, and (historical) pragmatics. His research prominently focuses on specialised languages, particularly technical and scientific English. In addition to leading several competitive research projects, he has supervised over ten doctoral theses and authored numerous publications in high-impact journals. His significant contributions include studies on epistemic modality and evidentiality in scientific discourse, and his expertise extends to the compilation of corpora, notably the Corpus of Women's Instructive Texts in English (CoWITE). Dr Alonso Almeida has actively participated in national and international conferences and has taught extensively across undergraduate and postgraduate programs, concentrating on English (historical) linguistics and translation studies.