OUR TEAM MEMBERS TAKE PART IN THE 46TH ICAME CONFERENCE

Over the span of five days in June 2025, between the 17th and the 21st, Dr Rosa Lorés and Dr Daniel Pascual participated in the 46th International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) Conference, hosted by the Faculty of Philology at Vilnius University (Lithuania). This year's edition was themed around exploring the latest in Corpus Linguistics and English studies, under the title "Per corpora ad astra: Exploring the past, mapping the future".

The conference invited four keynote speakers, amongst which was our principal investigator Dr Rosa Lorés, and included panels on topics connected with register and discourse, history of English, semantics, to name a few. Participants were also engaged in pre-conference workshops, software demonstrations and some social events to foster international collaborations and further academic research.

On Friday the 20th, Dr Lorés delivered her plenary speech, in which she discussed some of the manifold transformations brought about by digitisation with regard to science communication to a hybrid expert-lay public. The title of her talk was "Bridging the gap: From experts to audiences in digital science communication" – you can read more about it by clicking on this link.

Later on that day, on the register and discourse panel, Dr Daniel Pascual presented his paper entitled "Explanatory processes in Ask an Expert websites on psychology and mental health". There, he unpacked and compared explanatory strategies, such as denominations or explicitations, used across a sample of four different websites addressing psychological concerns. More details on his presentation can be found here.

It was a pleasure to attend this 2025 edition of the ICAME Conference!