Marta
Coll-Florit

Marta Coll-Florit holds a PhD in Information and Knowledge Society, specialized in Applied Linguistics (UOC), and doctoral studies in Cognitive Science and Language (UB). Since 2005, she has worked at the UOC, where she is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Arts and Humanities. Within this department, she holds two leadership positions: in the academic field, she is the Director of the Interuniversity Bachelor's Degree in Translation, Interpreting and Applied Languages (UOC, UVic-UCC); and in the research domain, she leads as Principal Investigator the GRIAL research group: the Interuniversity Research Group on Linguistic Applications, recognized as a Consolidated Research Group by the Generalitat de Catalunya (2021 SGR 00581). She holds the Research Accreditation for Full Professor. Her research is situated within the field of cognitive linguistics, with an empirical and applied approach. She has developed two main lines of research: 1) Psycholinguistics: studies on language comprehension through experimentation with adult speakers. 2) Health Humanities: critical discourse analysis and metaphor studies using corpus linguistics and computational linguistics techniques, applied to various areas of society, with particular attention to medical communication and patient narratives. She has been Principal Investigator of three funded research projects in these lines, notably the interdisciplinary MOMENT project: “Metaphors of Severe Mental Disorders. Discourse Analysis of Affected Individuals and Mental Health Professionals” (FFI2017-86969-R). Additionally, she has participated in a total of 12 competitive research projects on natural language processing. She has published 70 works on these topics, including numerous papers in leading international journals such as Metaphor and Symbol, Cognitive Psychology, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Text & Talk, and Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. Regarding knowledge transfer, she coordinated and published the first Dictionary of Mental Health Metaphors.