Pau Bertomeu Pi

Pau Bertomeu Pi is a Lecturer in the Department of English and German Philology at the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication, University of Valencia. He is a member of the CLiGIR (Contrastive Linguistics German-Ibero Romance) research group and affiliated with the Inter-university Institute for Applied Modern Languages (IULMA).

His main research interests lie in contrastive linguistics between German and Ibero-Romance languages (Spanish and Catalan), with a focus on pragmatic phenomena such as speech acts in colloquial interactions. He also contributes to translation studies and pedagogical approaches to German as a foreign language. His methodological framework combines discourse analysis and corpus-based linguistic comparison.

His scholarly output includes the publication of the book Peticiones en alemán y español. Un estudio contrastivo a partir de Gran Hermano (2022, Peter Lang), which analyzes request strategies in reality TV dialogues, reflecting his interest in authentic conversational data. While specific journal articles are not listed, his work has appeared in nationally and internationally recognized outlets, indicating a strong trajectory in applied and contrastive linguistics.

He completed his PhD at the University of Valencia in 2021 with a thesis titled Peticiones en alemán y español: un estudio contrastivo en conversaciones coloquiales prototípicas y periféricas, supervised by Dr. José Antonio Calañas Continente and Dr. María Estellés Arguedas. He holds a B.A. in Translation and Interlinguistic Mediation, an M.A. in Secondary Education, and another M.A. in Translation Studies from the University of Heidelberg, Germany.

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Pau Bertomeu Pi has not yet been listed as a supervisor of any theses or advisees. His academic service includes active research collaboration within CLiGIR and IULMA. No external grants are mentioned, but institutional affiliation suggests participation in funded research activities.

He is part of the CLiGIR research group and the Inter-university Institute for Applied Modern Languages (IULMA), both dedicated to advancing research in modern languages, contrastive studies, and translation.