To explore verbal and non-verbal mechanisms and strategies used by scientists to recontextualise and adapt scientific expert digital communication in English for diversified audiences.
General aims
To study the contexts of use and the communicative purposes of digital practices allowing researchers to disseminate their results, bringing science closer to the citizen.
To identify the rhetorical-discursive conventions of specific digital genres.
To explore the relationships established with other genres, from which they emerge in offline contexts or with which they coexist in online settings.
To identify and interpret processes of recontextualisation at a cognitive-discursive level in digital genres used in English for the dissemination of scientific knowledge manifested in lexico-grammatical features, pragmatic strategies and multimodal resources.
Research questions
Which digital practices are used in the fields of Health, Economy and Natural Sciences to disseminate new knowledge about global issues?
In which contexts are they used and which verbal and nonverbal resources characterise them?
What processes of recontextualisation at the cognitive-discursive level take place in specific digital genres in the fields of Health, Economics and Natural Sciences to communicate scientific knowledge to different agents and audiences?
What lexico-grammatical features are characteristic of the process of recontextualisation of scientific knowledge through these genres?
What pragmatic strategies are employed in the process of recontextualising scientific knowledge through these genres?
What multimodal resources are used in the process of recontextualising scientific knowledge through these genres?
