I specialise in Colour Semantics and I am interested in Sociolinguistics and Minority Languages. My doctoral thesis (University of Glasgow, 2024) investigated the Colour Semantics of the Galician language. This was a cross-generational study looking into the impact of language contact.

I am currently a Research Associate working on the project MultiLx. Strategies to strengthen European linguistic capital in a globalised world. This is a Horizon Europe-funded team of nine universities researching communicative practices and language ideologies of young people across the continent. 

I have been a guest lecturer in Linguistics at University of Glasgow (2022-2023) and University of Tallinn (2021). I have also taught various modules on Galician language and culture at University College Cork (2017-2019).

Linguistics, Semantics, Colour Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Minority Languages, Minoritised Languages, Language Contact, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, Irish.

• Arts and Humanities Research Council (University of Glasgow, 2020-2023)
• Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities Engagement Fund (University of Glasgow, 2021)
• Visiting Doctoral Researcher Dora Plus Scholarship (Tallinn University, 2021) 

PUBLICATIONS

Teixeira Moláns, P., (in press), The categorisation of ORANGE in Galician: generational contrasts in a diglossic community in edited volume Progress in Colour Studies. John Benjamins

Teixeira Moláns, P., 2021, “Os termos para as cores en galego: unha selva por explorar” [Colour terms in Galician: a jungle to be discovered]. Revista Galega de Filoloxía, 22, 89-106 DOI https://doi.org/10.17979/rgf.2021.22.0.8827

Teixeira Moláns, P., 2019, As cores en galego: as laranxas e as violetas pertencen só ao mundo vexetal [Colours in Galician: oranges and violets belong only to the vegetable world] in M. A. Marques and X. M. Sánchez Rei (eds.) Estudos atuais de linguística galego-portuguesa. Santiago de Compostela: Laiovento 293-230

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (selected)

Paper presentation at the international conference Progress in Colour Studies: The categorisation of orange: generational contrast in a digglosic community at Tallinn University (09/2022)

Invited guest to Sense Methods: Literature, History and Embodied Experience at Durham University. Presented A provocation from Linguistics (06/2022)

Seminar presentation at Applied Linguistics Seminar Series: Studying colour terms in a diglossic community: ​challenges of data collection, data processing and data analysis at University College Cork (03/2022)

Paper presentation at the International Association of Galician Studies (AIEG): A gama crómática en galego (The chromatic range in Galician) at Complutense University of Madrid (09/2018)