Posts Tagged ‘Pilar Mur’
AESLA 2022: Pilar Mur-Dueñas explores how researchers use explanatory strategies to diseminate knowledge through project websites
Pilar Mur-Dueñas attended the 39th AESLA (Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada) conference during the days 27th-29th April in the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Canary Islands), where she presented a paper titled “Recontextualising research results: An analysis of explanatory strategies in project research websites”. In this paper, Mur-Dueñas explores how explanatory or illustrative…
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 MoreUPCEL 2022: Pilar Mur-Dueñas explored the challenges of analysing digital scholarly discursive practices in her plenary lecture
Pilar Mur-Dueñas was invited to give a lecture at the hybrid conference UPCEL 2022 (4th International UCM Predoctoral Conference on English Linguistics), organised by the Universidad Complutense (Madrid) on 24th – 25th January. In her on-site talk, Mur-Dueñas addressed the challenges that arise from analysing digital academic discourse, and how discourse analysts can approach them.…
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 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 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 MoreMAG 2021: Pascual and Mur-Dueñas’ communication on a pragmatic and metadiscoursal analysis of research projects’ Twitter accounts
Daniel Pascual and Pilar Mur-Dueñas delivered a paper at MAG 2021 (3rd Metadiscourse Across Genres Mapping Interaction in Spoken & Written Discourses) organized online by Universitat Jaume I. The event took place last 27th and 28th May 2021. In their study they reported the use made of informative, promotional and interactional pragmatic strategies and their…
Read MoreDaniel 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 MoreMAG 2019: Pilar Mur-Dueñas on the dissimilar functions of boosters in on/offline academic genres
In her presentation Dr Mur-Dueñas showed how the function performed by boosters in digital communication through project research websites differs from that of these metadiscourse features in printed academic genres. They seem to be strategically employed to claim efficiency, enhance credibility and build reputation. As such, her study showed how metadiscourse features may not only…
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