Sofía ALBERO-POSAC
Sofía Albero Posac is a lecturer at San Jorge University, where she teaches different courses on English for Specific Purposes at the Faculty of Health Sciences and the School of Architecture and Technology. Her main research interests include genres for science dissemination and professional communication. She has analysed multimodal recontextualisation processes in emerging digital genres such as the video abstract.
Research keywords:
• digital genres
• English for Specific Purposes
• genre analysis
• multimodality
• professional communication
• recontextualisation
• science dissemination
Publications
- Luzón, M. J., & Albero-Posac, S. (2025). Disseminating research results in The Conversation: An analysis of comprehensibility strategies. Discourse, Context & Media, 67, Article 100920. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100920
Luzón, M.J., & Albero-Posac, S. (2023). Digital genres and Open Science practices. Ibérica: Revista de la Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 46: 1-21
Albero-Posac, S. & Luzón, M.J. (2021). Understanding academics online: Ethnographic approaches to the analysis of online academic discourse and practices. In I. Guillén-Galve and A. Bocanegra-Valle (Eds), Ethnographies of Academic Writing Research: Theory, Methods, and Interpretation (pp. 62-81). Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Presentations
- 2025
• Albero-Posac, S. (2025). “‘One size does not fit all’: A repertoire of rhetorical units in biomedical video abstracts”. Congreso internacional Multimodalidad y voces emergentes en la comunicación biomédica, Università degli Studi di Milano, 25-26 September 2025, Milan, Italy.
• Albero-Posac, S. & Luzón, M. J. (2025). Recontextualising science: How visuals and hyperlinks facilitate understanding in The Conversation . 23rd International AELFE Conference, Castellón, 25-27 June 2024, Universitat Jaume I, Spain. Conference Presentation.
2024
• Albero-Posac, S. (2024). “A methodological framework for the analysis of multimodal recontextualisation of discourse in video abstracts”. 22nd International AELFE Conference, Semmelweis University, 6-7 September 2024, Budapest, Hungary.
2021
• Albero-Posac, S. (2021). “Intended Audience in Video Abstracts: Towards a Better Understanding of an Emerging Multimodal Genre”. 6th International Conference of the Asia-Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Association (LSPPC6). Online. City University of Hong Kong, China, 3-5 June 2021.