Presentations
PSYLEX VI: Dr. Daniel Pascual explores credibility and engagement through pragmatic strategies
Our team member Dr. Daniel Pascual presented a poster at the 6th International PSYLEX conference. PSYLEX is a research group based at the University of Zaragoza that explores language from a cognitive perspective. They investigate how individuals process linguistic information in real-time, how bilingualism influences cognitive functions, and how language is represented and processed in…
Read MoreAMPRA-6: Silvia Murillo examines the use of emojis in research projects’ tweets
Dr. Silvia Murillo was a participant in the 6th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association, which took place virtually from the 27th to the 29th of September. Her paper was titled “The use of emoji in Twitter/X for research dissemination purposes”, and in it she explored the use of emojis in a set of…
Read MoreAMPRA-6: Rosa Lorés explores pragmatic strategies for the recontextualization of expert knowledge in online magazines
Dr.Rosa Lorés was one of the three members that participated in the 6th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association on the 27th, 28th and 29th of September. In her talk, which was titled “Strategies for engaging the audience: A pragmatic exploration of the recontextualization of expert knowledge in digital discourse”, Rosa explored the pragmatic…
Read MoreAMPRA-6: Daniel Pascual analyses pragmatic strategies in Horizon2020 project websites and Twitter accounts
Our colleague Dr. Daniel Pascual participated in the 6th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association, which took place online on the 27th, 28th and 29th of September. In his paper, titled “Comparing pragmatic strategies in research groups’ digital practices: Project websites versus social media”, Daniel analysed and compared the different pragmatic strategies used in…
Read MoreAELFE 2024: Isabel Herrando explores the dissemination of medical research
Our member Dr. Isabel Herrando Rodrigo participated in the 22nd AELFE conference. This year the event was given the title “Challenges of LSP teaching and research in the era of the language technological revolution”, and it was celebrated as a hybrid event at the Institute of Languages for Specific Purposes of the Semmelweis University (Hungary)…
Read MoreIVACS2024: Paula Wood-Borque explores the compilation of a multimodal corpus
Paula Wood-Borque was one of our PhD candidates that participated in the IVACS biennial conference (more information on this event here) on the 16th and 17th of July at the University of Cambridge. Paula’s paper was titled “Development of materials for the English as a Foreign Language classroom: Compilation and analysis of a multimodal corpus”.…
Read MoreIVACS2024: Ana E. Sancho-Ortiz presents the compilation challenges of the SciDis Database
Ana E. Sancho-Ortiz took part in the 11th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) conference with a paper entitled “Methodological challenges in working with digitally-mediated data: The compilation of the SciDis (Science Dissemination) Database”. For this event, celebrated in the University of Cambridge on the 16th and 17th of July, our PhD candidate prepared a methodological…
Read MoreIVACS2024: Luis Martínez-Kleiser presents a poster on recontextualisation features in blogs for adolescents
Luis Martínez-Kleiser participated in the 11th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) conference, which was celebrated in the University of Cambridge on the 16th and 17th of July. Luis presented a poster titled “Online dissemination of scientific content for educational purposes: recontextualising texts for teenage audiences”. In it, he presented a study of discursive strategies in…
Read MoreTaLC 2024: Luis Martínez-Kleiser analyses linguistic patterns in scientific texts for adolescents
Our team member Luis Martínez-Kleiser participated in the 16th Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC) conference, celebrated in the Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) from the 7th to the 10th of July 2024. The main topics of this conference revolved around corpus-based approaches to language learning, teaching and assessment. In his paper, which was titled “Scientific dissemination…
Read MoreARDAA 2024: Paula Wood-Borque explores the use of films and series as pedagogical tools
Our team member Paula Wood-Borque participated in the conference organised by the French Association for Research in English Learning and Teaching (ARDAA) in the University Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris, France). The conference was titled “Teaching and learning English as a Foreign Language in Educational Settings: Issues and Specificities”, and took place from the 26th to the…
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