11th EPICS 2024: Ana E. Sancho Ortiz explores the use of visual resources for experts’ self-presentation in social media

Our team member Ana E. Sancho-Ortiz participated in the XI International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics (EPICS) conference, organised in the Universidad Pablo from the 22nd to the 24th of May 2024. She presented the paper “Academic and professional identity on Twitter: Approaching visual elements as self-presentation resources”, based on a contrastive analysis…

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Silvia Murillo analyses emoji in Twitter for Research Dissemination Purposes from a relevance-theoretic perspective at CILC2024 Conference

The XV International Corpus Linguistics Conference (CILC2024), which is anually organised by the Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics (AELINCO), has taken place these past 22nd, 23rd and 24th May at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Under this year’s theme, “Corpus Linguisticis, (Digital) Discourse and AI: Unlocking new horizons”, the conference has gathered…

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EXPERT AND LAY VOICES IN ONLINE HEALTH COMMUNICATION: Isabel Herrando explores multimodal identity creation

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Our team member Isabel Herrando-Rodrigo participated in the seminar “Expert and Lay Voices in Online Health Communication”. This seminar, which was celebrated last 24th April, was organised by the Institute of English Studies of the Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland) and funded by the programme Excellence Initiative – Research University.  Isabel’s talk, which was done online,…

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AESLA 2024: Vicky Gil presents the teacher training model SPECIAL

Our team member Vicky Gil participated in the 41º Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA), which was celebrated in the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) last 17th-19th April. In her talk, Dr. Gil presented her teacher-training model SPECIAL, which was designed to be used in English as a Foreign Language and…

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AESLA 2024: Paula Wood-Borque presents a study of teachers’ perceptions on the use of films and series in the EFL classroom

Paula Wood-Borque presented a paper in this year’s edition of the International Conference of the Spanish Society for Applied Linguistics (AESLA), which took place at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Valencia, Spain) on the 17th-19th April 2024. In her talk, titled “Using audiovisual materials in the EFL classroom: A study of perceptions towards a multimodal…

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AESLA 2024: Ana E. Sancho-Ortiz explores expert identity in X and Instagram

Our team member Ana E. Sancho-Ortiz participated in the 41º Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA), celebrated on the 17-29th April 2024 at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Valencia, Spain). With her talk “Expert identity construction on social media: An X-Instagram cross-platform analysis”, she aimed to identify similar or differentiated patterns…

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UPCEL 2024: Ana E. Sancho-Ortiz approaches knowledge dissemination practices on expert Instagram profiles

Ana E. Sancho-Ortiz presented the current stage of her research at the 5th International UCM Predoctoral Conference on English Linguistics, held at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid on the 23rd-24th January 2024. In her presentation, titled “Knowledge Dissemination on Instagram: Exploring Recontextualization and remediation practices on physiotherapy accounts”, she explained the results of a pilot…

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