AESLA 2023: Ana Sancho analyses the affordances of scientific tweets in the EFL classroom

Ana Sancho-Ortiz participated in the 40th AESLA (Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada) conference, organised in Mérida from 26th to 28th April by the University of Extremadura, where she presented a paper entitled “Scientific tweets in the EFL classroom? Analysing (its) technical affordances and (multimodal) features to teach and learn English”. In her presentation, Sancho-Ortiz explained…

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AESLA 2023: Rosa Lorés explores communicative efforts in the digital dissemination of science

Dr. Rosa Lorés presented her paper “Bridging knowledge asymmetries: Communicative efforts in the digital dissemination of science” at the 40th AESLA (Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada) conference, hosted by the University of Extremadura on April 26th to 28th. In her presentation, she focused on the communicative efforts found in research digests at three dimensions (comprehensibility…

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AESLA 2023: Silvia Murillo explores reformulation through emojis in Twitter

Dr. Silvia Murillo was a presenter at the 40th AESLA (Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada) conference, organised by the University of Extremadura from 26th to 28th April 2023. In her paper, she explored the reformulation processes performed by emoji in the Twitter accounts from international research projects (from the Horizon 2020 programme). For this, Murillo…

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ALSPTHEI 2023: PILAR MUR-DUEÑAS DELIVERS A PLENARY TALK ON DIGITALLY-MEDIATED DISCURSIVE PRACTICES

Pilar Mur-Dueñas was a keynote speaker at the “Association of LSP teachers 6th International Conference: Contemporary Challenges in LSP Teaching”. This conference was hosted by the University of Osijek (Croatia) from the 23rd to the 25th of February 2023. In her plenary talk, titled “Emerging and evolving digitally-mediated discursive practices: A challenge for LSP training”,…

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CIRES Research Seminar 2022

Together with other members from the research group CIRES (Comunicación Internacional y Retos Sociales), the InterGedi team organised a research seminar titled “Research Methods in Discourse Analysis and Translation Studies” last Thursday 27th of October. We had four invited speakers from different universities in Spain; Pascual Pérez Paredes, Julia Valeiras, Noa Talaván and Miguel Ángel…

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CMC 2022: Isabel Herrando explores the articles from The Conversation.com and the strategies used to build credibility

Isabel Herrando was a presenter at the 9th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora, hosted by the University of Santiago de Compostela during the days 28th and 29th September 2022. In her paper she explored The Conversation.com, which is a research dissemination platform, as an example of digital scientific recontextualisation practice, and…

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CMC 2022: Rosa Lorés explores digital scientific textual practices

Rosa Lorés was a keynote speaker at the 9th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora, that was hosted by the Faculty of Philology of the University of Santiago de Compostela during the days 28th and 29th September 2022.  In her plenary lecture, titled “A look into digital scientific textual practices: Compiling and exploiting…

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