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Layla Ferrández Melero was born in Zaragoza, Spain, in 1989, where she graduated with a degree in English Philology from the Universidad de Zaragoza in 2012. Thereupon, she moved to Madrid, where she obtained her Master’s degree in English Linguistics in 2013 at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Currently, she is a Ph.D. candidate at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and is writing a thesis entitled “Accessibility and pragmatic simplification of subtitles in films for impaired children.” Her research focuses on cognition, psycholinguistics, conceptualization processes and metaphors, as well as the visual media.