Presentations
EPICS IX 2020: Daniel Pascual digs into the pragmatic strategies of headlines in the section ‘news and events’ of research project websites
From 4th to 6th November, the EPICS IX, a symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics, was held online gathering researchers from international universities to discuss their research on pragmatics and establish the current trends of analysis in the field. Our colleague, Daniel Pascual, participated at the conference and delivered a communication on the pragmatic…
Read MoreNetPra2 2020: Daniel Pascual analyses research project homepages from a combined multimodal, pragmatic approach
At the NetPra2 conference, held from 22nd to 24th October, Daniel Pascual communicated his latest findings on the pragmatic force deployed in the homepages of the research project websites collected in the EUROPRO digital corpus, compiled by the InterGedi research group. Through a mixed-methodological approach, he first identified sections and clusters in these homepages to…
Read MoreSEING II 2020: PhD colleague Daniel Pascual shares his latest progress in his PhD thesis
The SEING II Seminar was a very enriching event organised in the Department of English Studies at the Universidad of Zaragoza that gathered predoctoral students from a lot of national universities . This year the conference was developed in online format (inevitably) and was titled “English Studies Across Genres, Media and Modes”. As a PhD…
Read MoreSEING II 2020: Isabel Corona delivers a plenary talk on the framework of multimodality: ‘Attending to the Meaningful Whole’
Our InterGedi colleague Isabel Corona participated last Friday, 25th September 2020, as a keynote speaker at the second edition of the Predoctoral Seminar on English Studies (SEING II) of the University of Zaragoza, which this year was organised online under the motto “Research in English Studies Across Genres, Media and Modes”. In her plenary talk,…
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 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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