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
Daniel Pascual and Pilar Mur-Dueñas present a combined pragmatic and metadiscursive analysis of research Twitter accounts at MAG 2021
On the first day of MAG 2021, the 3rd edition of the Metadiscourse Across Genres Conference, organised by Universitat Jaume I and the IULMA Institute, Daniel Pascual and Pilar Mur-Dueñas had the opportunity to share their latest research on the digital communication of research projects in Twitter. In their talk, “Tweeting in EU research projects:…
Read More‘Analyzing Digital Discourse: New Insights and Future Directions’, a book review on trendy online practices
The new issue of the journal Language Value, from the Universtat Jaume I, is out, and one of our InterGedi colleagues, Daniel Pascual, has just published there a book review that is worth exploring. The volume under review is ‘Analyzing Digital Discourse: New Insights and Future Directions, edited by Professors Bou-Franch and García-Conejos Blitvich and…
Read MoreA series of mid-project sessions of our research project to keep on investigating
In the month of November, our research group has been meeting in a number of online meetings, as we have met the equator of our research project “Towards the visibility and dissemination of scientific research: A linguistic, rhetorical and pragmatic study of digital genres in English as a language of international communication”, funded by the…
Read MoreRamón Plo represents InterGedi at INTELE initiative
The research framework “INTELE: INfraestructura de TEcnologías del LEnguaje” gathered together, in a workshop held November 25th, researchers and institutions from different within the social sciences and humanities. Three were the main foci of interest in this event, for which specific round tables were organised: 1) Policies supporting European digital insfrastructures para the Digital Social…
Read MoreDaniel Pascual discussess the pragmatic strategies of headlines in research project news and events at EPICS IX
November 4th-6th were the dates chosen to relocate the ninth edition of the EPICS conferences, after the original dates were postponed due to the COVID-19 health crisis. The 9th International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics (EPICS) was organised as usual by the research group “Intercultural Pragmatic Studies (English-Spanish): Pragmatic and Discourse Issues” at…
Read MoreInterGedi participates in NetPra2, a conference about digital pragmatics
Last 22-24 October, the second edition of the NetPra conferences took place online. Organised by the University of Helsinki, the event was very successful and offered a wide variety of approaches and topics around the field of ‘Internet pragmatics’ under the theme of “Interactions, Identities, Intentions”. The InterGedi research group participated at the conference through…
Read MoreOliver Shaw chairs the 2020 MET General Assembly
On Thursday, October 15, 2020, InterGedi team member Oliver Shaw took part in the General Assembly of Mediterranean Editors and Translators (MET), a professional association of which he is an active member and former Promotion Chair. Prior to the cancellation of what was to be a face-to-face event held in San Sebastián in the Basque…
Read MoreDaniel Pascual explains the functioning of verbal and visual components of research project homepages
Daniel Pascual, the PhD candidate in our research group, presented at SEING II the first findings from a multimodal analysis he is undertaking to understand the pragmatic intents that come up out of the combination of verbal and visual elements when communicating online. To address his research questions, he compiled an initial sample of 10 research project…
Read MoreIsabel Corona delivers an insightful plenary talk about multimodality at SEING II
Last Friday, September 25th, the second edition of the predoctoral seminar on English Studies (SEING II) was held online, gathering around 50 speakers and attendees. The event, organised at the Department of English and German Studies at the University of Zaragoza, was an opportunity for young researchers to introduce their doctoral projects and to share…
Read MoreNew publication about how research websites are spaces to promote research project values by Rosa Lorés
Our project about science communication on the web and the expanding role and significance of international research in the academic and professional spheres keeps moving forward! It is in this case a great pleasure to announce the publication of an article in the journal Discourse, Context & Media authored by our research colleague Rosa Lorés.…
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