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InterGedi in CLAVIER 2019
28th-29th November 2019. At the end of November, InterGedi participated at the Clavier Conference, hosted this time in Pisa, Italy. The motto of the forum was this year ‘Knowledge Dissemination and Multimodal Literacy: Research Perspectives on ESP in a Digital Age’. We contributed the second day with a presentation carried out by Isabel Herrando-Rodrigo and…
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 MoreSeminar to learn how to use NVivo and make the most of our data qualitatively
Yesterday, 15th November, we had a research group meeting to get to know the NVivo software tool. It was truly a pleasure that Dr. Elena Goñi Osácar, who had used NVivo for her own investigations, gave the seminar and could answer all our questions. We are grateful that she accepted our invitation because of the…
Read MoreDigital methods in practice! Insightful workshop for InterGedi research
We have participated in an all-day hands-on workshop organised by the University of Navarra at its campus in Madrid last Wednesday, 13th November. The workshop, consisting of three different seminars, was a wonderful opportunity to delve into research methodologies as applied to digital texts and communication online. The first session, delivered by Eleonora Esposito, from…
Read MoreInterGedi participates in Psylex V workshop
Last 24th and 25th October, we participated in the Pyslex V workshop, organized by our colleagues, the Psylex research group, at the Department of General and Spanish Linguistcis at the University of Zaragoza. The event was held at the Faculty of Education and, in this edition, focused on the exploration and exploitation of a wide…
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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