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5th CRILL International Conference Legal Discourse: Context, Media and Social Power
Corona, Isabel: “Damage control in corporate e-releases: “When things go rough, the rough get going” Abstract Corporate communication policy is generally concerned with construing and projecting the company’s identity and image. Web-mediated press releases (or e-releases) have been profusely studied (for example Tessuto 2017) with the widely accepted assumption that these texts are a hybrid…
Read More2nd Conference New Trends to Foreign Language Teaching
Pascual, Daniel: “How to exploit travel blogs in the EFL classroom from a genre-based approach” Abstract As digital natives, Secondary Education students should be provided with enough opportunities in the English as a Foreign Language classroom to properly enhance their digital competence. To trigger this improvement lessons can include up-to-date widely-used digital genres which may…
Read More36th AESLA 2018: Conference Applied Linguistics and Knowledge Transfer: Employability, Internationalization and Social Challenges
Plo-Alastrué, Ramón, and Herrando-Rodrigo, Isabel: “Disseminating academic knowledge through digital interactive genres: Are Spanish scholars meeting this social challenge?” Abstract Researchers are nowadays encouraged to meet certain social challenges, posed for instance by H2020, in order to increase their reputation, visibility and, eventually, funding. To be internationally competitive, calls favour research projects that disseminate and…
Read More36th AESLA 2018: Conference Applied Linguistics and Knowledge Transfer: Employability, Internationalization and Social Challenges
Pascual, Daniel: “What can I find in a travel blog? The writing of posts by ELF speakers” Abstract Currently the digital world is offering new modes of communication that enable a more immediate and dialogical interaction. Within it, the blog shows up as a very resourceful and sophisticated platform where different genres converge and where…
Read MoreMET 2018: Oliver Shaw conducted a workshop on genre analysis
Oliver Shaw was invited by the professional association Mediterranean Editors and Translators (MET) to conduct a workshop on genre analysis in Milan (Italy), April 6th 2018. The abstract of this workshop, which was titled “The discussion section in academic research articles: patterns, practices and insights for editors and translator” can be consulted as follows: Abstract:…
Read MoreCLAVIER 2017: Representing and Redefining Specialised Knowledge
Mur-Dueñas, Pilar: “Academics’ digital discursive practices in English: A genre-based analysis of the websites of international research projects” Abstract Academics’ discursive practices are becoming more and more varied and demanding as it seems to be increasingly necessary not only to get one’s research results published in English high-impact journals, but also to disseminate research outcomes…
Read MoreCLAVIER 2017: Representing and Redefining Specialised Knowledge
Lorés-Sanz, Rosa: “International online conference announcements. A generic and an intercultural approach” Abstract International academic interaction is nowadays mainly taking place on digital platforms. This is the case, for instance, with conference announcements, which are disseminated internationally through distribution lists. Online conference announcements, as discourse phenomena (Thurlow and Mroczek 2011), are sites for academic interaction…
Read More1st CAAD 2017: International Conference Corpus Analysis in Academic Discourse
Herrando-Rodrigo, Isabel: “Authors’ visibility in medical discourse: is there a single framework of corpus analysis to fit it all?” Abstract This study aims to contribute to the concept of writer’s visibility inspired by approaches to the analysis of identity in written discourse such as those taken by Ivanič (1998), Charles (1999) or John (2005), among…
Read MoreAn InterGedi researcher participated in a panel chaired by Sally Burgess and made up of applied linguists and researcher-practitioners. They explored the benefits of cross-pollination between those who work with users of EAL and researchers who explore the phenomenon of multilingual academic text production.
Shaw, Oliver: Learning from one another: a dialogue between applied linguists and researcher practitioners Abstract The critical stance many applied linguists now adopt calls into question the values and practices of the globalized publishing industry and examines the implications for users of English as an additional language. Authors’ editors and translators may be reluctant to…
Read MoreIX CILC 2017: International Conference on Corpus Linguistics
Herrando-Rodrigo, Isabel: “Academic and knowledge dissemination genres analysed from the standpoint of interpersonality: research articles and their electronic dissemination adaptations” Abstract This paper studies the applicability of interpersonal metadiscourse (IM) as a framework and the subsequent limitations it poses. My contribution will focus on the implementation of a cline of writers’ visibility in a corpus…
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