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Conference: Participation at LSPPC6, HONG KONG, 3-5 June 2021

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Understanding the multimodal practices of research groups when communicating in Twitter. Luzón, María José Abstract Twitter is being increasingly used in academia as a tool for self-promotion, information sharing, networking and public outreach (Mahrt, Weller and Peters, 2014; Veletsianos, 2012). The use of Twitter enables scholars to select and combine a variety of semiotic resources …

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Conference: Participation at Seminar in English Studies ( SEING 2021), 27-28 May 2021

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Studying the rhetorical structure of crowdfunding discourse: A move-step analysis of project videos. Vivas Peraza, Ana Cristina Abstract Crowdfunding (CF) is a strategy for scientists and entrepreneurs of any kind to collect funds for their projects by requesting online donations to the public. As an alternative to the highly competitive traditional institutional funding, this revolutionary …

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Conference: Participation at 3rd Metadiscourse Across Genres (MAG2021). Universitat Jaume I de Castelló (Spain). 27-28 May 2021

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Metadiscourse and predatory scholarly journals: how publishers interact with prospective article authors. Bocanegra-Valle, A. Abstract Predatory practices have proliferated in the last decade as a part of the pressure-to publish explosion of scholarly publishing (Fazel & Hartse, 2020). These practices are often associated with on-line Open Access (OA) publishing; however, because the OA model in …

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Conference: Participation at ENTRETEXTOS, ALICANTE, 13-14 May 2021

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Uncovering the discourse of open access predatory journals. Bocanegra-Valle, A. Abstract The pressure-to publish trend in academia has contributed to the proliferation and expansion of journals from predatory publishers (Fazel & Hartse, 2020; Power, 2018). Many of these publishers usually email scholars promising short peer review turnarounds, high acceptance rates and, therefore, fast publication (Bocanegra-Valle, …

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New publication: Muresan & Orna-Montesinos (eds). (2021)

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Muresan, L. M. & Orna-Montesinos, C. (eds). (2021). Academic Literacy Development. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62877-2 Abstract This edited book brings together an international cast of contributors to examine how academic literacy is learned and mastered in different tertiary education settings around the world. Bringing to the fore the value of qualitative enquiry through ethnographic methods, …

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New publication: Pérez-Llantada (2021)

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Pérez-Llantada, C. (2021). Genres and languages in science communication: The multiple dimensions of the science-policy interface. Language & Communication, 78, 65-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2021.02.004 Abstract This article investigates science dissemination practices on the Internet across the disciplinary spectrum and maps out the mono-/multilingual uptake of those practices. Results show that the production of traditional genres for expert-to-expert communication is …

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New publication: Pérez-Llantada (2021)

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Pérez-Llantada, C. (2021). Grammar features and discourse style in digital genres: The case of science-focused crowdfunding projects. Revista Signos. Estudios de Lingüística, 54(105), 73-96. Open access. DOI: 10.4067/S0718-09342021000100073 Abstract As advances in digital media render new forms of knowledge dissemination, new genres in the Internet are attracting increasing scholarly attention. Yet, although these genres have been investigated extensively …

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New publication: Luzón & Albero-Posac (2020)

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Luzón, M. J. & Albero-Posac, S. (2020). “Had a lovely week at #conference2018”: An analysis of interaction through conference tweets. RELC Journal, 51(1), 33-51. https://doi.org/10.1177/0033688219896862 Abstract Twitter has become a common feature of academic conferences, used by organizers to provide information about the conference and by attendees to engage in discussion about the conference topics, share information, and …

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New publication: Guillén-Galve & Vela-Tafalla (2020)

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Guillén-Galve, I. & Vela-Tafalla, M. A. (2020). New research genres and English prosody: An exploratory analysis of academic English intonation in Video Methods Articles in experimental biology. Language Value, 12(1), 1-19. Abstract The digital multimedia environment where research communication develops nowadays has important consequences for EAP course design (Pérez-Llantada 2016), since speaking and visuals are ever more …

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