Activities

The 45th GERAS International Conference took place from 21-23 Mar 2024 at ZHAW Université des sciences appliquées de Zurich, in Winterthur (Switzerland). This is an annual conference organised by the French association of English for specific purposes. Our colleagues Oana Maria Carciu and Rosana Villares, presented the study “Recontextualizing the RA abstract for a diversified audience:  …

Conference: 45th GERAS International Conference: Language use in specialized contexts: new perspectives on research in English and French as specialized languages Read More »

Scientists as Engaged and Engaging: Investigating the Scientific Discourse about Climate Change in the Website Latest Thinking. Mª Ángeles Velilla Sánchez and Antoinette Fage-Butler Abstract As global publics broadly know about (Pew Research Centre, 2022) and increasingly trust in climate change science (World Economic Forum, 2021), science communication to publics that just presents the epistemological …

Conference: Twentieth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society, Valencia (Spain), 7-8 March 2024 Read More »

#ilooklikeasurgeon: using Twitter to challenge stereotypes and draw attention to diversity. Luzón, M.J. Abstract In August 2015, the hashtag #ILookLikeASurgeon was introduced and used to tweet photos of practicing or aspiring surgeons around the world, and thus highlight diversity in surgery. The hashtag went viral and it is still being used frequently to challenge stereotypes, …

Conference: Languaging Diversity International Conference 2023, “Languaging identities in changing times: challenges and opportunities”, University of Napoli “L’orientale”, Torino, Italy, 14- 16 Dec. Read More »

In October 2023, it took place the “International Research and Training Week for Academia – New academic, communication and research competences for the digital age”, organised and coordinated by Professor Laura Mureşan with the support of the Department of Modern Languages and Communication in Business from ASE. Debates, presentations and networking activities from this week …

International research week organised by our partners in ASE (Bucharest) Read More »

Source: https://bifi.es/the-conference-genres-and-languages-in-digital-communication-trends-and-new-directions-was-held-in-june/# On June 28-30, the international congress GENRES AND LANGUAGES IN DIGITAL COMMUNICATION: TRENDS AND NEW DIRECTIONS was held at the Patio de la Infanta (Fundación Ibercaja), organized jointly with the 21st annual conference of the European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes (AELFE2023) and the 7th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Association of Languages …

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100% crowdfunded! A study on phraseology for successful scientific communication in an emerging digital genre. Vela-Rodrigo, A. A. Abstract The close relationship between lexis and grammar has been ample proved in a considerable number of publications on corpus linguistics, highlighting the importance of phraseology when studying the performance of a genre (e.g., Hoey 2005, Gries …

Conference: 7th Meeting of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE7) “Combining Tradition and Computation”, University of Queensland, Brisbane (Australia), 19-23 June, 2023. Read More »

Science communication and the new needs for EAP in the digital age: Producing science crowdfunding videos as multimodal literacy practice. Vivas- Peraza, A.C. Abstract At a time of rapidly changing technologies and explosion of the Open Science movement, online science communication is becoming a major skill for scientists. The Internet and the Web 2.0 allow …

Conference: 16th NFEAP International Conference: EAP and time, Oslo (Norway), 15- 16 June 2023 Read More »

Digital genre of crowdfunding projects in the context of science and society. Vela-Rodrigo, A. A. (Invited talk)

Lexical Bundles for the Creation of Reliability and Proximity in Crowdfunding Campaigns. Vela-Rodrigo, A. A. Abstract Crowdfunding platforms support the production of scientific knowledge and its dissemination online. It is therefore of interest to uncover how formulaic language operates through the lens of lexical bundle analysis in such emerging genres to know the manner scientists …

Conference: 32nd Annual International Conference on British and American Studies (BAS 2023), English Department at the Faculty of Letters, West University of Timişoara (Romania), 11-13  May Read More »

A rhetorical profile of art-related crowdfunding projects in a new communicative culture. Vela Rodrigo, A. Abstract Today, scientific researchers are creating a brand-new communicative culture using the digital affordances of the Web 2.0 to disseminate their work to lay publics, making science more accessible and decipherable, at same time they engage society in issues of …

Conference: Cultures & Contrasts (C&C 2023) LANGUAGES IN CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES: PRACTICES, DISCOURSES, COGNITION. State University of Applied Sciences in Konin (Poland) 27-29 March 2023 Read More »

A lexical bundle analysis for artistic campaigns in Crowdfunding Communication. Vela Rodrigo, A. Abstract At present, researchers are increasingly using different digital resources and tools to make scientific contents accessible to lay publics and also to engage them in various ways in scientific research. In the context of science crowdfunding, the technological affordances of digital …

Conference: 44th GERAS International Conference: Cultures, Mémoires et Héritages en Anglais de Spécialité, École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (France), 23-25 March 2023 Read More »

Lengua y discurso en géneros digitales: el caso de la comunicación pública de la ciencia (conferencia plenaria). Carmen Pérez-Llantada En el contexto de la Ciencia Abierta y de la agenda para la “democratización de la ciencia”, la investigación en lingüística aplicada sobre lengua y comunicación en contextos sociales y culturales está ganando impulso en la …

Conference: Participation at the 40th International Conference of the Spanish Society of Applied Linguistics (AESLA). Mérida, Spain, 26th-28th April 2023 Read More »

First prize poster award: How to persuade a wide Internet audience to donate money for a research project: Lessons from a rhetorical and multimodal analysis of science crowdfunding videos. Vivas-Peraza, AC.

Digital genres and practices in English for Specific Purposes: Current perspectives and future directions. Carmen Pérez-Llantada.13th December 2022. Jilin University, China Abstract Over the past years, digital communication in specific communities has been a focus of direct interest for English for Specific Purposes (ESP) researchers and practitioners. Such critical focus on ESP research has been …

Webinar: Invited presentation at Jilin University, China Read More »

Pérez-Llantada, C. and M.J. Luzón (2022). Genre networks. Intersemiotic relations in digital science communication. New York/Oxon: Routledge. Book description This innovative book employs genre as a fruitful lens for exploring the complexity of science communication online and the new genre assemblages formed at the interface of multiple genres in digital environments. Pérez-Llantada and Luzón argue …

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On 28-29th September, the 9th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora was held in Santiago de Compostela. Our team members Oana Carciu and Rosana Villares presented part of their current research projects. The abstracts of their presentations are linked below. Digital science communication beyond expert audiences: Exploring add-on genres in enhanced publications. …

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Exploring discoursal uptake and recontextualization in a genre network online: A case study. Carmen Pérez-Llantada Abstract The intertextual and hypertextual relations among genres (discourse types) that result from the Web 2.0 technological affordances invite genre analysts to better grasp the complexity of meaning making processes and the generic interrelations that are established in web-based specialized …

Conference: 20th International AELFE Conference, Communication in the academic, professional, and political spheres during pandemic times. University of Pisa, Italy,  14-15 Sept. Read More »

Vivas-Peraza, A. C. (2022). The role of women in STEM disciplines. A multimodal analysis of crowdfunding project videos for the iGEM science competition. Sociología y tecnociencia, 12(2), 228-251. https://doi.org/10.24197/st.2.2022.228-251 Abstract The gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is a matter of growing social concern: although the female presence in these disciplines has …

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During the 27th-29th April, the 39th AESLA Conference was held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Our team members Rosana Villares, Alberto Vela, and Marian Velilla presented part of their current research projects. The abstracts of their presentations are linked below. A genre-based analysis of researchers’ scientific dissemination strategies on Twitter. Villares,R. Abstract: Technological advances …

Conference: Participation at 39th International Conference of the Spanish Society of Applied Linguistics (AESLA). Read More »

Luzón M.J. (2022).“Coronavirus explainers” for public communication of science: everything the public needs to know. In Musolff, A.,  Breeze, R., Kondo, K. and Vilar-Lluch, S. (eds). Pandemic and Crisis Discourse. Bloomsbury Publishing. 10.5040/9781350232730.ch-006 Abstract Disseminating knowledge to the public and communicating it by using engaging and non-technical language is particularly important in health-related crisis such …

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Predatory journals: A potential threat to the dissemination of validated knowledge in open science. Bocanegra-Valle, A. Abstract Predatory publishing practices have proliferated in the past years by 25% (Oermann et al., 2018) as a result of researchers’ pressure to publish or perish in international journals and, concurrently, the expansion of digital editorial practices and the …

Conference: International Conference on Digital Communication, Identity and Visibility in Research Dissemination (INTERGEDI2021), University of Zaragoza, Spain, 9-10 December 2021. Read More »

Velilla-Sánchez, M. A. (2021). Bilingual resources in English-medium instruction lectures: the role lecturer’s L1 is playing in EMI courses. Language Value, 14(2), 45-67. DOI: 10.6035/languagev.6122 Abstract English is increasingly used as a lingua franca (ELF) for academic activities in Spanish higher education institutions. The notion of ELF is now being redefined to include in its  …

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El objetivo general de este curso, impartido por la Dra. Carmen Pérez-Llantada,  es dar a conocer a los asistentes distintas estrategias de comunicación escrita que les puedan facilitar la redacción de artículos para su publicación en revistas científicas y la difusión de los artículos en medios digitales. Para más información ir al siguiente enlace: https://elearning.campusiberus.es/

Register choice and patterns of interaction across text varieties. Pérez-Llantada, C. Abstract In the context of Open Science and of the “democratization of science” agenda for reaching broader publics (Bonney et al., 2009; Fecher & Friesike, 2014), scholars are increasingly encouraged to produce new kinds of writing online that target a non-specialist/lay readership. This is …

Conference: Plenary talk at 10th Brno Conference on Linguistic studies in English, Czech Republic, 16-17 September 2021 Read More »

Language standards and style in a trans-scientific genre, BAAL SIG Health and Science Communication. Pérez-Llantada, C. Abstract This paper focuses on the crowdfunding project, a trans-scientific genre that is attracting increasing attention among researchers in the fields of Medicine and Health Sciences. The extant literature conceptualizes this genre as ‘trans-scientific’ (or ‘para-scientific’) because it operates …

Conference: Participation at BAAL 2021 Conference, Newcastle, University of Northumbria, 9-10 September 2021 Read More »

Scholarly communication and Twitter: Multilingual practices of Spanish research groupsference. María José Luzón Abstract Individual scholars as well as research groups are increasingly using Twitter as a tool for self-promotion, information sharing, networking and public outreach (Mahrt, Weller and Peters, 2014; Veletsianos, 2012). Multilingual scholars, in particular, use their Twitter accounts to reach diverse local …

Conference: Participation at the 19th International Conference of AELFE (Vilanova i la Geltrú), 7-9 July 2021 Read More »

On 9th July, some of our team members won the 8th Enrique Alcaraz Research Award at the AELFE-TAPP 2021 Conference. María José Luzón and Carmen Pérez-Llantada won the best published work with their book Science communication on the Internet (2019), and Rosana Villares won the best unpublished PhD Thesis with her work entitled The convergence …

Awards: 8th Enrique Alcaraz Research Award Read More »