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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.

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. …

Conference: Participation at the 9th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora. Read More »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 …

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

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 …

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

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 …

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

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, …

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