Posts Tagged ‘Presentation’
UPCEL 2022: Daniel Pascual’s analysis on the use of strategies for dissemination of information through Twitter
Daniel Pascual delivered a paper at the at the conference UPCEL 2022 (4th International UCM Predoctoral Conference on English Linguistics), which took place during the 24th and 25th of January in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. In his presentation he analyses the strategies used by academics for disseminating their research through the platform Twitter, and…
Read MoreCLAVIER 2021: Isabel Corona studies mechanisms for multimodal cohesion in homepages of international research projects
With her presentation, Isabel Corona finished off the thematic panel that InterGedi delivered at the CLAVIER2021 Conference. This time, she placed the focus on the hompages of the EUROPROwebs corpus and tried to illustrate how recurrent verbal and visual combinations were significant carriers of semantic and logical meaning within this genre. In order to do that, she drew…
Read MoreMAG 2021: Pascual and Mur-Dueñas’ communication on a pragmatic and metadiscoursal analysis of research projects’ Twitter accounts
Daniel Pascual and Pilar Mur-Dueñas delivered a paper at MAG 2021 (3rd Metadiscourse Across Genres Mapping Interaction in Spoken & Written Discourses) organized online by Universitat Jaume I. The event took place last 27th and 28th May 2021. In their study they reported the use made of informative, promotional and interactional pragmatic strategies and their…
Read MoreMAG 2021: Rosa Lorés explores metadiscourse in the online genre of the digest in her plenary lecture
Rosa Lorés participated as a keynote speaker at the 3rd Metadiscourse Across Genres (MAG 2021), organized by Universitat Jaume I on May 27-28, 2021. In her talk she problematized the role of metadiscourse as an encompassing approach to the study of digital textual practices, taking into account that metadiscourse seems to be genre-related and context-dependent,…
Read MoreCLAVIER 2019: Isabel Herrando-Rodrigo and Rosa Lorés-Sanz about multimodal literacies in ESP learning and teaching
As a way to transfer research results into teaching, and within the landscape of digital communicative practices, Dr Lorés-Sanz and Dr Herrando-Rodrigo presented their pilot experience as an example of a multimodal innovative teaching practice. From their observations and the ethnographically informed research, they concluded that a multimodal approach in ESP settings, –combined with other methodologies,…
Read MoreMAG 2019: Daniel Pascual contrasts self-mentions as employed in project websites and blogs hosted within them
At the Metadiscourse Across Genres conference, Daniel Pascual has presented a case study to delve into the use and frequency of self-mentions in international scientific project websites. To establish some patterns according to the genre employed, he has chosen some projects, which also maintain and updated a blog, to carry out a contrastive study. Drawing…
Read MoreMAG 2019: Silvia Murillo shows a study on code glosess based on the EUROPROwebs corpus
Together with other members of the InterGedi research group, Silvia Murillo participated at the Metadiscourse Across Genres (MAG) International Conference of this year, under the motto Metadiscourse in Digital Communication: What has changed?. This international event was yet another opportunity to keep developing and revisiting the frameworks of metadiscourse. Murillo made in this case a…
Read MoreMAG 2019: Pilar Mur-Dueñas on the dissimilar functions of boosters in on/offline academic genres
In her presentation Dr Mur-Dueñas showed how the function performed by boosters in digital communication through project research websites differs from that of these metadiscourse features in printed academic genres. They seem to be strategically employed to claim efficiency, enhance credibility and build reputation. As such, her study showed how metadiscourse features may not only…
Read MoreMAG 2019: Rosa Lorés and Isabel Herrando-Rodrigo discuss new identity markers in digital texts
With the aim to problematize metadiscourse as a framework for the study of writer’s identity and voice, Dr Herrando-Rodrigo and Dr Lorés-Sanz investigated writers’ visibility in a corpus of websites. Their results showed that new markers had to be identified to explore how e-visibility was constructed and projected and that three types could be identified:…
Read MoreA-MODE 2019: Isabel Corona talks about newsworthiness in project homepages from the lens of multimodality
The A-Mode international conference (Aproaches to Multimodal Digital Environments: from theories to practices) took place at the University of “Tor Vergata” (Rome) from 22th to 24th June 2019. The conference was a great venue to discuss the up-to-date issue of multimodal digital communication and keynote sessions included the participation of our InterGedi colleague Marina Bondi,…
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