Daniel Pascual

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…

Daniel 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…

InterGedi 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…

NetPra2 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…

SEING 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…

Daniel 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…

Digital methods in practice! Insightful workshop for InterGedi research

We have participated in an all-day hands-on workshop organised by the University of Navarra at its campus in Madrid last Wednesday, 13th November. The workshop, consisting of three different seminars, was a wonderful opportunity to delve into research methodologies as applied to digital texts and communication online. The first session, delivered by Eleonora Esposito, from…

MAG 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…

ADDA2 2019: Daniel Pascual analyses the use of Twitter as a networking mechanism for international research groups

Daniel Pascual participated in the 2nd ADDA (Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis) international conference organised at the University of Turku, Finland (23-25 May 2019). This forum provided wonderful insights into digital discourses in new genres, media and platforms, including social media. Daniel presented a preliminary study of the interrelationship between Twitter and research project websites,…

Daniel Pascual I am an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of English and German Studies at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). I finished my PhD thesis in 2023, for which I was granted a competitive research fellowship financed by the Diputación General de Aragón (DGA). My thesis focused on the pragmatic strategies employed in research…