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14th ESSE 2018: Transferring knowledge within academic and institutional contexts: A focus on new and hybrid digital genres
Herrando-Rodrigo, Isabel: “Who’s talking to me?: The construction of writers’ identity in digital academic genres” Abstract Nowadays Internet has become the platform which everybody resorts to when suffering from a health problem. This urgent need to find out medical information (Herrando-Rodrigo, 2014) has led institutions and mass media publications to craft a new digital genre…
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Corona, Isabel: “A window to the world: Visual design and research visibility of European research projects homepages” Abstract The growth and specialization of scientific output and the increasing prevalence of transnational collaborative efforts in academia have led researchers to seek greater visibility within a highly competitive playing field, while creating a need to optimize the…
Read More14th ESSE 2018: Transferring knowledge within academic and institutional contexts: A focus on new and hybrid digital genres
Rosa Lorés-Sanz (InterGedi) and Giuliana Diani (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italia) organized the Seminar “Transferring knowledge within academic and institutional contexts: A focus on new and hybrid digital genres” at the 14th ESSE Conference, which took place in Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic), August 29-September 2, 2018. In this Seminar, two other members…
Read MoreXVII AELFE’18: Oliver Shaw explores the challenges faced by multilingual scholars in academic publishing.
Oliver Shaw presented at the XVII International Conference of the European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes (AESLA), celebrated in Madrid during the days 28th and 29th of June. In his paper, “The new landscape in global academic publishing?”, he presents a case study that identifies some difficulties that multilingual scholars face during early-career text…
Read MoreXVII AELFE 2018: Daniel Pascual. Innovation and research in the globalization era
Pascual, Daniel: “What is there within a blog? Generic relationships in travel blog posts and comments” Abstract Immediacy and accessibility characterize the use of the net when retrieving information and interacting with other users. Interactions have largely evolved thanks to digital genres, which allow for dialogical and bilateral relationships in the web that traditional printed…
Read MoreCERLIS 2018: Silvia Murillo. Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Exchange in Academia
Murillo Ornat, Silvia: “Reformulation processes in European project websites: an exploratory study” Abstract Nowadays, most international projects have an associated website, which is potentially used as a means to disseminate the results of their research and to enhance the academic projection of the participating scholars and institutions. These websites usually include several sections with common…
Read MoreCERLIS 2018: Pilar Mur. Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Exchange in Academia
Mur-Dueñas, Pilar: “Knowledge dissemination through research project websites: engaging and interacting with a wide audience” Abstract Academics are currently not only required to produce primary output, i.e. peer-reviewed research articles, chapters or books, which constitutes certified and legitimised knowledge, and on which their status and reputation lie (Puschmann 2015), but they are increasingly pressed to…
Read MoreCERLIS 2018: Rosa Lorés. Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Exchange in Academia
Lorés-Sanz, Rosa: “Digital spaces of knowledge dissemination and visibility: Promotional discourse in European research projects websites” Abstract Professional and discursive practices within Academia are undergoing a deep process of evolution and change due basically to two phenomena which feed each other: the academics’ increasing demands and pressures to gain visibility for their research and the…
Read MoreCERLIS 2018: Isabel Herrando-Rodrigo and Ramón Plo. Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Exchange in Academia
Herrando-Rodrigo, Isabel, and Plo-Alastrué, Ramón: “An ethnographic approach to digital knowledge transfer genres” Abstract Current quality standards in the academia are raising scholars’ awareness not only of the importance of becoming an active contributor in their specific disciplines but also the urge to increase the overall visibility of their research. These days, research institutions tend…
Read More8th INPRA 2018: International Conference Intercultural Pragmatics & Communication
Pascual, Daniel: “An intercultural and intergeneric analysis of speech acts in travel blogs” Abstract (Travel) blogs constitute an up-to-date widespread instance of digital discourse opening up new paths for interaction thanks to its potential dialogicity, informality and immediacy (Boyd 2006). Certain speech acts are pragmatically useful (Searle 1985) to ensure bloggers’ closeness and interaction with…
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