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Daniel Pascual discussess the pragmatic strategies of headlines in research project news and events at EPICS IX
November 4th-6th were the dates chosen to relocate the ninth edition of the EPICS conferences, after the original dates were postponed due to the COVID-19 health crisis. The 9th International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics (EPICS) was organised as usual by the research group “Intercultural Pragmatic Studies (English-Spanish): Pragmatic and Discourse Issues” at…
Read MoreInterGedi participates in NetPra2, a conference about digital pragmatics
Last 22-24 October, the second edition of the NetPra conferences took place online. Organised by the University of Helsinki, the event was very successful and offered a wide variety of approaches and topics around the field of ‘Internet pragmatics’ under the theme of “Interactions, Identities, Intentions”. The InterGedi research group participated at the conference through…
Read MoreOliver Shaw chairs the 2020 MET General Assembly
On Thursday, October 15, 2020, InterGedi team member Oliver Shaw took part in the General Assembly of Mediterranean Editors and Translators (MET), a professional association of which he is an active member and former Promotion Chair. Prior to the cancellation of what was to be a face-to-face event held in San Sebastián in the Basque…
Read MoreNetPra2 2020: Daniel Pascual analyses research project homepages from a combined multimodal, pragmatic approach
At the NetPra2 conference, held from 22nd to 24th October, Daniel Pascual communicated his latest findings on the pragmatic force deployed in the homepages of the research project websites collected in the EUROPRO digital corpus, compiled by the InterGedi research group. Through a mixed-methodological approach, he first identified sections and clusters in these homepages to…
Read MoreSEING II 2020: PhD colleague Daniel Pascual shares his latest progress in his PhD thesis
The SEING II Seminar was a very enriching event organised in the Department of English Studies at the Universidad of Zaragoza that gathered predoctoral students from a lot of national universities . This year the conference was developed in online format (inevitably) and was titled “English Studies Across Genres, Media and Modes”. As a PhD…
Read MoreDaniel Pascual explains the functioning of verbal and visual components of research project homepages
Daniel Pascual, the PhD candidate in our research group, presented at SEING II the first findings from a multimodal analysis he is undertaking to understand the pragmatic intents that come up out of the combination of verbal and visual elements when communicating online. To address his research questions, he compiled an initial sample of 10 research project…
Read MoreIsabel Corona delivers an insightful plenary talk about multimodality at SEING II
Last Friday, September 25th, the second edition of the predoctoral seminar on English Studies (SEING II) was held online, gathering around 50 speakers and attendees. The event, organised at the Department of English and German Studies at the University of Zaragoza, was an opportunity for young researchers to introduce their doctoral projects and to share…
Read MoreSEING II 2020: Isabel Corona delivers a plenary talk on the framework of multimodality: ‘Attending to the Meaningful Whole’
Our InterGedi colleague Isabel Corona participated last Friday, 25th September 2020, as a keynote speaker at the second edition of the Predoctoral Seminar on English Studies (SEING II) of the University of Zaragoza, which this year was organised online under the motto “Research in English Studies Across Genres, Media and Modes”. In her plenary talk,…
Read MoreNew publication about how research websites are spaces to promote research project values by Rosa Lorés
Our project about science communication on the web and the expanding role and significance of international research in the academic and professional spheres keeps moving forward! It is in this case a great pleasure to announce the publication of an article in the journal Discourse, Context & Media authored by our research colleague Rosa Lorés.…
Read MoreEUROPRO Digital Corpus Characteristics and description of EUROPRO Type: EUROPROwebs is a specialised, ad-hoc, static corpus of websites created and maintained by research projects participating in the Horizon2020 program. Size: The pilot corpus consists of 30 research project websites. It is our aim to elaborate a database of a total of 100 research project…
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