AMPRA-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, Rosa explored the pragmatic processes of recontextualization employed by knowledge mediators  in 30 articles from the online magazines Smithsonian Magazine and Popular Science. In…

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AMPRA-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…

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AELFE 2024: Isabel Herrando explore 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)…

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IVACS2024: 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”.…

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IVACS2024: 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…

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TaLC 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…

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