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CERLIS 2018: Silvia Murillo. Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Exchange in Academia

Murillo Ornat, Silvia: “Reformulation processes in European project websites: an exploratory study” Abstract Nowadays, most international projects have an associated website, which is potentially used as a means to disseminate the results of their research and to enhance the academic projection of the participating scholars and institutions. These websites usually include several sections with common…

CERLIS 2018: Pilar Mur. Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Exchange in Academia

Mur-Dueñas, Pilar: “Knowledge dissemination through research project websites: engaging and interacting with a wide audience” Abstract Academics are currently not only required to produce primary output, i.e. peer-reviewed research articles, chapters or books, which constitutes certified and legitimised knowledge, and on which their status and reputation lie (Puschmann 2015), but they are increasingly pressed to…

CERLIS 2018: Rosa Lorés. Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Exchange in Academia

Lorés-Sanz, Rosa: “Digital spaces of knowledge dissemination and visibility: Promotional discourse in European research projects websites” Abstract Professional and discursive practices within Academia are undergoing a deep process of evolution and change due basically to two phenomena which feed each other: the academics’ increasing demands and pressures to gain visibility for their research and the…

CERLIS 2018: Isabel Herrando-Rodrigo and Ramón Plo. Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Exchange in Academia

Herrando-Rodrigo, Isabel, and Plo-Alastrué, Ramón: “An ethnographic approach to digital knowledge transfer genres” Abstract Current quality standards in the academia are raising scholars’ awareness not only of the importance of becoming an active contributor in their specific disciplines but also the urge to increase the overall visibility of their research. These days, research institutions tend…

8th INPRA 2018: International Conference Intercultural Pragmatics & Communication

Pascual, Daniel: “An intercultural and intergeneric analysis of speech acts in travel blogs” Abstract (Travel) blogs constitute an up-to-date widespread instance of digital discourse opening up new paths for interaction thanks to its potential dialogicity, informality and immediacy (Boyd 2006). Certain speech acts are pragmatically useful (Searle 1985) to ensure bloggers’ closeness and interaction with…

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…

2nd 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…

36th 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…

36th 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…

MET 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:…