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
InterGedi at AESLA 2022
Our team members Rosa Lorés, Pilar Mur-Dueñas and Daniel Pascual participated in the 39th edition of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (AESLA) Conference, hosted by the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on the 27th-29th April 2022. Rosa Lorés delivered a paper titled “Engaging diversified audiences: pragmatic strategies in the recontextualization of expert…
Read MoreRosa Lorés and Pilar Mur-Dueñas edit a Special Issue on Scientific and Parascientific Communication at Publications
As announced here some months ago, Rosa Lorés and Pilar Mur-Dueñas have edited and now published the Special Issue “Scientific and Parascientific Communication” in the international, open-access journal Publications. It explores the digital, multimedia and multimodal practices of scientists to disseminate their research results, and that frequently entail the blurring of boundaries between experts and…
Read MorePilar Mur-Dueñas, Daniel Pascual and Paula Wood present at the UPCEL 2022 conference
Our three team members presented their own research at the conference “English on the move: discourse and cognitive-functional approaches to linguistic variation” (UPCEL 2022) last January at the Complutense University of Madrid. Dr. Pilar Mur-Dueñas delivered a plenary lecture on the 25th, titled “Scholars’ digital communication practices: the challenges of analysing the publication and dissemination…
Read MoreWe present a thematic panel about the InterGedi project at CLAVIER2021
Last Thursday and Friday, InterGedi participated at the new edition of the yearly conferences organised by CLAVIER (Corpus and Language Variation in English Research), where several members of our research group presented a thematic panel about the latest results from the project. The conference, titled “Exploring Words in the Digital Transformation Tools and Approaches for…
Read MorePilar Mur-Dueñas shares insights and discusses findings from the InterGedi project with our colleagues at Universitat de València
InterGedi member Pilar Mur-Dueñas visited our colleagues at the Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació of the Universitat de València to exchange views and discuss new challenges about the main topics of our current research project: research dissemination, digital visibility and scientific, academic discourse. The workshop was well attended by IULMA members, as well as…
Read MoreIsabel Herrando-Rodrigo and Enrique Lafuente-Millán will present their latest research at Brno Conference on Linguistic Studies in English
Next Thursday and Friday the ninth edition of the Brno Conference on Linguistic Studies in English will take place. The event, which will be celebrated online due to the Covid-19 situation, has this year the theme “Patterns and Variation in English Language Discourse”. During the two days, participants will attend numerous communications on online discourse,…
Read MorePilar Mur-Dueñas explores hedging in RAs written Spanish and English for the journal Lingua
Our InterGedi colleague Pilar Mur-Dueñas contributes to one of the next issues the journal Lingua with the publication of a research article on the strategic use of hedging in a contrastive analysis between research articles written in Spanish and in English. Her analysis offers a complementary perspective to some of her previous publications, and further…
Read MoreSpecial Issue at Publications on Scientific and Parascientific communication is underway!
Dr Pilar Mur-Dueñas and Dr Rosa Lorés will be publishing a special issue on Scientific and Parascientific Communication in Publications, an international peer-reviewed open access journal published online by MDPI. With this special issue, insights will be gained into the increasingly diverse digital, multimodal, and multimedia practices of scientists to disseminate their research results and…
Read MoreInterGedi thematic panel at LSPPC6 conference
Last week we had the opportunity to contribute to the LSPPC6 (online) conference, which was the 6th edition of the International Conference of Asia-Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Association. It took place via Zoom from 3rd to 5th June, and was titled “Multimodality and Beyond: Addressing complexity and emerging needs in LSP”. Very interesting lectures…
Read MoreRosa Lorés delivers a plenary lecture on recontextualisation of scientific research at #MAG2021
May 27th was the day that the 3rd edition of the Metadiscouse Across Genres (MAG2021) took off. The conference revolved from the beginning around the pressing need to revisit the framework of metadiscourse as we have traditionally used it, and to adapt it to new communicative contexts. Many of the speakers highlighted the special pertinence…
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