Linguistic Corner

The Linguistic Corner aims to prepare activities intended mostly for undergraduate students completing the Degree in English studies who are particularly interested in the study of the English language.

Through the Linguistic Corner we aim to:

develop the participants’ general competences
enable them to know or discover specific topics concerning English
discuss current issues around the role of English as a Lingua Franca
deal with cultural aspects of the English world critically
mentor students about academic and professional options

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Our Events

That's the way we are... We take part in different kind of projects aim to generate knowledge about digital genres in English used by academics and professionals to strengthen the visibility of their research output.

Latest events

THE OUTPUT FROM THE “I, EXPERT” AUTUMN SCHOOL IS NOW PUBLISHED AND FOR ALL!

As hinted on one of our latest events, the compilation of texts created during the “I, Expert” Autumn School would soon be made available. So, we are delighted to announce that you can already find it on the “I, Expert” website. Many thanks to leading project researcher Dr Marina Ivanova for putting the productions together…

Dr. Pilar Mur-Dueñas participates in the 6th GRAPE webinar

Our team member Dr. Pilar Mur-Dueñas was invited to participate as a speaker in the 6th International Webinar on Multimodal Discourse Analysis, celebrated on the 21st and 22nd of November and organised by the GRAPE research group. GRAPE (Group for Research on Academic and Professional English) is a group of researchers mostly based in the…

OUR COLLABORATION IN THE “I, EXPERT” AUTUMN SCHOOL

Last week, the InterGedi team received fellow scholars from TU Chemnitz to host the “I, Expert” Autumn School, as part of our collaboration with the “I, Expert: Media competence for science through linguistics” led by Dr Marina Ivanova. After visiting Chemnitz for the “I, Expert” Conference last month, we were pleased to be able to…

Our participation in the “I, Expert” conference in Chemnitz

Several members of the InterGedi team participated in the “I, Expert” conference at the Technische Universität Chemnitz (Germany) that was celebrated on the 7th and 8th of October 2024. This conference is part of the “I, Expert: Media competence for science through linguistics” project, sponsored by the DAAD research programme, and is led by Dr.…

InterGedi’s participation in the AMPRA-6 conference

Our team members Dr. Silvia Murillo, Dr. Rosa Lorés and Dr. Daniel Pascual have recently participated in the 6th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association, which was celebrated online from the 27th to the 29th of September 2024. The American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA) brings together academics and students from North, Central, and South America,…

Pilar Mur-Dueñas and Vicky Gil present ICLHE programme and connections with InterGedi project in several events

In the last couple of months, our colleagues Pilar Mur-Dueñas and Vicky Gil have participated in several academic events presenting the ICLHE programme at Universidad de Zaragoza. As members of the CLIC@unizar group, they have been discussing advantages of exploiting this programme for future teacher trainers and scholars, highlighting original theoretical and methodological approaches. In…

Intergedi representation at the IVACS conference

Our three PhD candidates, Ana E. Sancho Ortiz, Paula Wood Borque and Luis Martínez-Kleiser, participated in the 11th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Biennial Conference, which took place at the University of Cambridge (UK) during the 16th and 17th of July 2024. IVACS is an international research centre and network that mainly focuses on…

InterGedi and TU Chemnitz embark on a new project: “I, Expert: Media competence for science through linguistics”

InterGedi is thrilled to officially announce a new project in collaboration with Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany. The project is sponsored by the DAAD research programme (German Academic Exchange Service), which is funded by the world’s largest funding organisation, supporting the international exchange of students and scholars. Led by our colleague Marina Ivanova, together with other…

New publications in the Discourse and Interaction academic journal

Our team member Dr. Pilar Mur-Dueñas has recently had an article published in the new volume of the academic journal Discourse and Interaction (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic). The title of her article is “Digital dissemination practices: An analysis of explanatory strategies in the process of recontextualising specialised knowledge”, and it explores the use of…

PROFILE online event: “A conversation with authors of Vol. 26 No. 1”

Our PhD student Ana E. Sancho-Ortiz was invited to join the online event “A conversation with authors of Vol. 26 No. 1”, organised by the journal PROFILE: Issues in Teachers’ Professional Development to discuss some of the topics addressed in the contributions to the volume. Sancho-Ortiz’s works appears in it as the author of “Analysing…