Journals
Authors:
Breeze, Ruth ; Halbach, A. (Autor de correspondencia)
Journal:
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION JOURNAL
ISSN:
1082-3301
It has long been known that children who grow up in situations of economic and social disadvantage tend to have more difficulties when they enter school, and that these are often perpetuated, leading to underachievement and disaffection. The role of the family and home environment in stimulating children's language acquisition and pre-literacy competences during their earliest years is clearly important. It is possible that with appropriate exposure and encouragement before the age of 3, children from disadvantaged backgrounds could start school on an equal footing with their more privileged counterparts. We provide a conceptual overview of the factors in the home affecting language and subsequent literacy development in children aged 0-3, and a review of programs designed to enhance the home learning environment.
Journal:
ASP
ISSN:
2108-6354
Year:
2023
N°:
83
pp.
34 - 45
Journal:
ESP TODAY
ISSN:
2334-9050
Year:
2023
Vol.:
11
N°:
1
pp.
138 - 159
To academic researchers in many fields, particularly within the social sciences, qualitative research offers an attractive option. However, the task of writing qualitative research articles poses specific challenges for L2 English users. Such papers are expected to include more detailed descriptions and reflections than is usual when working in the quantitative paradigm, and writers need to negotiate their own identity as researcher, writer and participant carefully. This paper approaches qualitative writing through the methods section, where it is reasonable to assume that specific features of the text signal adherence to the principles of qualitative research. After reviewing previous academic writing research on methods sections, this article applies the conventional 9-step framework used for analysing methods sections in quantitative publications to ascertain to what this structure is used in qualitative research papers, and to establish what other steps specifically occur in papers that are based on qualitative research paradigms. Additional steps include mention of ethical clearance, and reflections on the researcher role and the complexity involved in collecting and analysing data. A revised step framework for qualitative methods in the social sciences is proposed, as it will prove useful for novice academic writers.
Journal:
IBERICA
ISSN:
1139-7241
Year:
2022
N°:
43
pp.
1 - 6
Journal:
IBERICA
ISSN:
1139-7241
Year:
2022
N°:
44
pp.
1 - 6
Journal:
DISCOURSE AND SOCIETY
ISSN:
0957-9265
Year:
2022
Vol.:
33
N°:
3
pp.
303 - 323
This paper investigates digital discursive practices of hostility against women in UK politics through quantitative and qualitative analysis of a corpus of Twitter data retrieved across the 3 weeks preceding the UK General Elections in December 2019. A mixed-methods approach was designed. First, we used quantitative semantic analysis to compare the large datasets of tweets about female and male MPs, with a view to detecting possible gendered patterns. We then triangulated our quantitative findings with an in-depth critical discursive analysis of the tweets mentioning female MPs. Rather than showing gendered patterns across the board, the results from the quantitative analysis brought out large inter-individual differences. Some female MPs received comments containing more lexis related to appearance, sexual history and violence, as well as more emotional or extreme language. Critical analysis of the hostile and abusive messages targeting women reveals them to be deeply embedded in a social perception of women's political activity as breaching the rules of gender performativity.
Journal:
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW
ISSN:
0952-8059
Year:
2022
Vol.:
35
N°:
2
pp.
431 - 454
When the new Scottish Parliament was established through the Scotland Act of 1998, various innovative steps were taken to guarantee greater public participation in political processes. One of these measures, the Scottish e-petitioning system, provides a vehicle for interested citizens to petition the parliament directly on matters of public interest. This article examines all the e-petitions submitted since September 2011 in the area of Justice and Law, establishing how petitioners convey their own motivation for taking this step, and how Scottish justice is represented. Analysis of these petitions shows citizens engaging proactively with legal issues, and probes into citizens' conceptualizations of law and justice both in their current reality and as projections of how they could or should be. It also explores the association between legal and national consciousness, and the way in which citizens adopt an increasingly transnational approach to framing legal issues. The petitions thus reveal both active concern to achieve justice in highly specific individual matters, and a more theoretical concern with the specific status of Scottish justice, portrayed as lagging behind the rest of the United Kingdom in various respects.
Journal:
PRAGMATICS AND SOCIETY
ISSN:
1878-9714
Year:
2022
Vol.:
13
N°:
1
pp.
85 - 106
Recent discourse research has examined the rise of right-wing populism. Yet the predominant focus on political parties and politicians means that we know less about how right-wing identities are performed among ordinary people with different degrees of political engagement. This paper examines reader comments pages in three British newspapers, analysing how participants perform, defend and reinforce their political identities in online fora. It traces how supporters of the far-right United Kingdom Independence Party perform collective identities and enact political antagonisms. The conclusions emphasise how online media particularly propitiate the blending of personal and societal discourses, and suggest that the internal dynamics of affordances such as comments pages propel conflict escalation and heighten antagonism.
Journal:
LODZ PAPERS IN PRAGMATICS
ISSN:
1895-6106
Year:
2021
Vol.:
17
N°:
1
pp.
43 - 63
This paper analyses letters to shareholders by bank presidents in the ten years after the financial crisis to establish whether apologies for corporate wrongdoing and mismanagement are present, and if not, how these negative aspects are communicated. Apologies and quasi apologies are shown to be part of a wider repertoire of strategies including alignment with those affected, disassociation from negative events, scapegoating of perpetrators, and promises of future good conduct. These findings are discussed in terms of the banks¿ ongoing relationship with shareholders, and their wider reputation management endeavours.
Journal:
PUBLICATIONS (BASEL)
ISSN:
2304-6775
2304-6775
2304-6775
Year:
2021
Vol.:
9
N°:
34
pp.
1 - 15
At times of crisis, access to information takes on special importance, and in the Internet age of constant connectedness, this is truer than ever. Over the course of the pandemic, the huge public demand for constantly updated health information has been met with a massive response from official and scientific sources, as well as from the mainstream media. However, it has also generated a vast stream of user-generated digital postings. Such phenomena are often regarded as unhelpful or even dangerous since they unwittingly spread misinformation or make it easier for potentially harmful disinformation to circulate. However, little is known about the dynamics of such forums or how scientific issues are represented there. To address this knowledge gap, this chapter uses a corpus-assisted discourse approach to examine how ¿expert¿ knowledge and other sources of authority are represented and contested in a corpus of 10,880 reader comments responding to Mail Online articles on the development of the COVID-19 vaccine in February¿July 2020. The results show how ¿expert¿ knowledge is increasingly problematized and politicized, while other strategies are used to claim authority. The implications of these findings are discussed in the context of sociological theories, and some tentative solutions are proposed.
Journal:
BMJ SUPPORTIVE & PALLIATIVE CARE
ISSN:
2045-435X
Year:
2021
Vol.:
11
N°:
2
pp.
156 - 162
OBJECTIVE:Cultural backgrounds and values have a decisive impact on the phenomenon of the wish to die (WTD), and examination of this in Mediterranean countries is in its early stages. The objectives of this study were to establish the prevalence of WTD and to characterise this phenomenon in our cultural context. METHODS:A cross-sectional study with consecutive advanced inpatients was conducted. Data about WTD (Assessing Frequency & Extent of Desire to Die (AFFED) interview) and anxiety and depression (Edmonton Symptom Assessment System-revised (ESAS-r)) were collected through two face-to-face clinical encounters. Data were analysed with descriptive statistics, ¿2 and analysis of variance. RESULTS:201 patients participated and 165 (82%) completed both interviews. Prevalence of WTD was 18% (36/201) in the first interview and 16% (26/165) in the second interview (p=0.25). After the first interview, no changes in depression (p=0.60) or anxiety (p=0.90) were detected. The AFFED shows different experiences within WTD: 11% of patients reported a sporadic experience, while 7% described a persistent experience. Thinking about hastening death (HD) appeared in 8 (22%) out of 36 patients with WTD: 5 (14%) out of 36 patients considered this hypothetically but would never take action, while 3 (8%) out of 36 patients had a more structured idea about HD. In this study, no relation was detected between HD and frequency of the appearance of WTD (p=0.12). CONCLUSIONS:One in five patients had WTD. Our findings suggest the existence of different experiences within the same phenomenon, defined according to frequency of appearance and intention to hasten death. A linguistically grounded model is proposed, differentiating the experiences of the 'wish' or 'desire' to die, with or without HD ideation.
Journal:
DISCOURSE APPROACHES TO POLITICS, SOCIETY AND CULTURE
ISSN:
1569-9463
Year:
2021
Vol.:
92
pp.
15 - 38
In European politics today, the issues of nationalism and populism are attracting considerable research attention. However, most discourse studies have either focused exclusively on far-right politics, or have looked at populism at both extremes of the political spectrum. In this chapter, I approach the discursive representation of the nation and the people from an exploratory, comparative perspective informed by corpus assisted discourse studies, drawing on mixed methodology, and focusing on the politics of Great Britain. My corpus contains six 2017 election manifestos: Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrats, UKIP, Scottish National Party, and Plaid Cymru. Principled searches are conducted for references to nations, national groups and people/citizens, which are then analysed qualitatively in a contrastive perspective. © 2021 John Benjamins Publishing Company
Journal:
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LEGAL DISCOURSE
ISSN:
2364-883X
Year:
2021
Vol.:
6
N°:
1
pp.
43 - 67
Good governance is a key factor in underpinning the integrity and efficiency of an institution, whether it is a private company or a national or international organisation. The core principles of good governance are now often defined as fairness, accountability, responsibility and transparency. Although these terms are familiar to all those involved in corporate social responsibility/sustainability and business ethics, and are frequently discussed in the European Parliament and European directives, they often pose a challenge to the translator, since obvious equivalents for all of them do not exist in all EU languages. In this paper, I take the example of accountability, and examine the way that it is represented in both Spanish and German in the EUROPARL7 parallel corpus of European Parliament Proceedings, available in the Sketch Engine corpus platform. Accountability in English can be defined as an assurance that individuals or organizations will be evaluated on their performance or behaviour related to something for which they are responsible, or more simply, as being responsible for explaining what you do and able to give a satisfactory account of it to those whom your actions affect. The English term accountability thus differs from responsibility and transparency, although it overlaps with both. However, not all languages allow us to distinguish easily between the concepts they designate. In fact, the majority of Spanish translations of accountability found in EUROPARL7 simply use responsabilidad, while others make reference to rendir cuentas or rendicion de cuentas, and a few actually use transparencia. In German, the picture is less confused, with the closer term Rechenschaftspflicht employed as the usual translation, but an abundance of alternatives such as Verantwortlichkeit and Auskunftspflicht also appear. In my conclusions, I discuss the rationale that may underlie the different choices, point to problems that might arise from poor translations, and suggest reasons we should strive to maintain clear definitions of these key concepts.
Journal:
PRAGMATICS
ISSN:
1018-2101
Year:
2021
Vol.:
31
N°:
4
pp.
483 - 508
In the ten years from 2008 onwards the banking sector was constantly in the spotlight. Blame for the financial crisis and concern regarding controversial government bailouts were followed by public outrage about inflated bonuses, money laundering and false reporting. Over this period, banks deployed a range of legitimation strategies to salvage their reputation. This paper proposes a modified typology of legitimation strategies based on previous research (van Leeuwen and Wodak 1999; Vaara, Tienari and Laurila 2006), and examines how these are used by in the "letter to shareholders" published by the chairs of the five main UK-based banks over the ten years following the crisis. The strategies are analysed in terms of their object, target and interdiscursive features, and the particular persuasive roles of narrative and emotion are underlined.
Journal:
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE STUDIES
ISSN:
2157-4898
Year:
2021
Vol.:
15
N°:
3
pp.
25 - 44
This rapid spread of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) across Europe means that secondary education teachers of subjects like science or history are increasingly required to teach their subjects in English. For some this is a positive impulse to professional development, but in all cases changing the language of instruction poses a challenge, sometimes triggering negative feelings and leading teachers to question their professional identity. After reviewing relevant research, we analyse the impact of a training programme for in-service CLIL teachers on their emotions and identity. Our findings show that the transition to CLIL was a cause of considerable insecurity in this sample, associated with threats to the teachers¿ professional self-confidence and satisfaction. Future training should allow more space for consideration of emotional factors, with a view to helping teachers reshape their professional identity.
Journal:
LANGUAGE AWARENESS
ISSN:
0965-8416
Year:
2021
Vol.:
30
N°:
2
pp.
195 - 215
English medium instruction (EMI) is widespread in European universities. In most such contexts, students and teachers are able to communicate in at least one other language, generally the shared L1. Recent studies in English-speaking countries and postcolonial settings have suggested that attitudes towards L1 use in EMI are changing, and that multilingualism in the classroom is accepted or even positively embraced. However, some studies in expanding circle countries such as Spain and Turkey indicate that this trend is not universal. This paper uses evidence from narrative frames administered to 60 EMI lecturers at 5 universities in northern Spain to investigate their attitudes to L1 use, identify how these intersect with their age, years of experience in EMI, gender and subject area, and shed light on their conceptualisations of EMI and emergent practices. Around half believed that L1 use was not acceptable, while most of the others only allowed the L1 in highly circumscribed conditions (to repair breakdowns in communication, to foster empathy outside the classroom, or to refer to local phenomena). Our evidence reflects the struggle to further the use of English in EMI settings where this language is a relative newcomer.
Journal:
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AGGRESSION AND CONFLICT
ISSN:
2213-1272
Year:
2020
Vol.:
8
N°:
1
pp.
118 - 145
The rise of populism has turned researchers' attention to the importance of affect in politics. This is a corpus-assisted study investigating lexis in the semantic domain of anger and violence in tweets by radical-right campaigner Nigel Farage in comparison with four other prominent British politicians. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses of discourse show that Farage cultivates a particular set of affective-discursive practices, which bring anger into the public sphere and offer a channel to redirect frustrations. Rather than expressing his own emotions, he presents anger as generalised throughout society, and then performs the role of defending 'ordinary people' who are the victims of the elites. This enables him to legitimise violent emotions and actions by appealing to the need for self-assertion and self-defence
Journal:
ESP TODAY
ISSN:
2334-9050
Year:
2020
Vol.:
8
N°:
2
pp.
250 - 274
Primer cuartil en SCIMAGO
Journal:
LINGUE E LINGUAGGI
ISSN:
2239-0359
Year:
2020
Vol.:
34
pp.
167 - 189
Journal:
WORLD ENGLISHES
ISSN:
0883-2919
In public controversy after the Brexit referendum, social media played a prominent role. In particular, veteran populist anti-EU campaigner Nigel Farage used Twitter as a powerful weapon to further his cause. This paper compares a corpus of Farage's tweets in 2017-2018 with those by four other prominent British politicians (May, Johnson, Corbyn and Starmer). Quantitative corpus linguistics techniques are combined with qualitative analysis to examine how Farage creates a distinctive discursive style that is both down-to-earth and emotive. Various markers of register and affect are identified, and three core aspects of Farage's populist appeal to 'the people' are outlined, including the projection of negative emotions, especially anger/violence; the use of questions to provoke reactions; and the deployment of colloquial expressions and catchphrases to resonate with popular audiences and claim the status of 'common sense'.
Journal:
LANGUAGE VALUE
ISSN:
1989-7103
Year:
2020
Vol.:
12
N°:
1
pp.
i - iii
Journal:
JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
ISSN:
2013-8423
Year:
2020
Vol.:
13
N°:
3
pp.
529 - 545
Purpose: The objective of the present study is to analyze the effects of the transition to English Medium Instruction (EMI) on lecturers in Spanish universities in one specific area, namely Operations Management courses taught in Business degrees. Methodology: After reviewing the bibliography, we designed a questionnaire based on previous research into EMI in non-Anglophone countries. By administering this online, we gathered information from 20 EMI lecturers giving Operations Management courses in thirteen Spanish Universities. The data were analyzed by means of a descriptive analysis of the closed-ended questions and thematic content analysis of the open-ended questions. Findings: Most professors report that they initially reacted negatively to the idea of having to teach in English, but now realize that most of their fears were ungrounded. They emphasize that it is very important to invest time in training seminars and the exchange of experiences. Other relevant findings are the perceived lack of incentives to teach in English, the need to use tools and techniques to improve the interaction with students, and the considerable amount of time needed for class preparation. Our results are discussed in the light of the bibliography on EAU and recommendations are made with regard to the implementation of EMI in Operations Management courses and related areas. Originality/value: The results of this small-scale study of EMI in OM shed important light on how EMI is impacting on one field. They are consistent with previous research elsewhere, but also provide some insights that may pave the way for further research and development.
Journal:
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND POLITICS
ISSN:
1569-2159
Year:
2019
Vol.:
18
N°:
3
pp.
463 - 466
Journal:
MISCELANEA. A JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES
ISSN:
1137-6368
Year:
2019
Vol.:
59
pp.
173 - 176
Journal:
E-JOURNALL
ISSN:
2376-905X
Year:
2019
Vol.:
6
N°:
1
pp.
21 - 36
Journal:
DISCOURSE AND SOCIETY
ISSN:
0957-9265
Year:
2019
Vol.:
30
N°:
1
pp.
24 - 43
Recent political trends in many countries have sparked renewed interest in populism. Despite general agreement that the affective/emotive aspects of political communication are particularly important in this, there is little recent analysis of how populists operationalise emotion or how they genuinely differ from mainstream parties in this sense. This article applies mixed methods to explore the 'affective-discursive practices' that characterise the discourses of two opposition parties in the United Kingdom: United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and Labour. Comparison of the frequency of semantic subcategories related to emotion in corpora of press releases published by these parties on their websites is complemented by qualitative analysis of how specific emotional areas such as fear, anger and anxiety are invoked by the two parties. Different 'affective-discursive practices' underpin their discourses, since Labour characteristically frames reactions to social phenomena in terms of worry and concern, while UKIP legitimates fear and anger, but also projects more positive emotions.
Journal:
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND POLITICS
ISSN:
1569-2159
Year:
2019
Vol.:
18
N°:
1
pp.
1 - 20
Journal:
IELTS RESEARCH REPORTS
ISSN:
2201-2982
Year:
2019
Vol.:
2019
N°:
1
pp.
1 - 36
Journal:
JAVNOST
ISSN:
1318-3222
Year:
2019
Vol.:
26
N°:
1
pp.
89 - 104
Journal:
DISCOURSE, CONTEXT & MEDIA
ISSN:
2211-6958
Year:
2018
Vol.:
25
pp.
60 - 67
Journal:
ESE. ESTUDIOS SOBRE EDUCACION
ISSN:
1578-7001
Year:
2018
N°:
34
pp.
313 - 315
Journal:
LANGUAGE VALUE
ISSN:
1989-7103
Year:
2018
Vol.:
10
N°:
1
pp.
45 - 66
Fine arts offer opportunities for multimodal approaches in education. Museums and galleries are now aware of their social role, and provide outreach activities designed to bring an understanding of art to a wider public. Their websites offer educational material for school children, showing how artistic knowledge and sensitivity can be cultivated with young age groups. However, little attention has been paid to such didactic material by discourse analysts interested in multimodality. This paper builds on Swales's (2016) article on the genre of the single image account (SIA), which centres on texts about famous paintings written by experts for a general readership. Here, I focus on SIAs for didactic purposes, examining pedagogical resources on the National Gallery's website. Accessible SIAs are combined with suggestions to enhance primary school pupils' learning through creative activities across a variety of modes. Guidelines are provided for writing SIAs for educational purposes in other contexts
Journal:
IBERICA
ISSN:
1139-7241
Year:
2018
N°:
35
pp.
41 - 65
This article uses the semantic tagging tools provided by Wmatrix3 to investigate the discourse of corporate annual reports to shareholders from leading UK-based companies in four sectors: pharmaceuticals, food, mining and finance. Six potentially interesting areas of commonality are identified (change, inclusion, size: big, important, cause and effect, and time: begin). Concordance lines from these areas in each subcorpus are then analysed qualitatively to identify the presence of shared value-systems in the discourse of the reports. A contrastive analysis is then conducted which reveals differences between the four sectors in the keyness of areas such as safety, strength, newness and focus, as well as colleague and client orientation. These findings are discussed in the light of previous research on business communication. Finally, some advantages of using semantic tagging over standard corpus linguistic tools are discussed.
Journal:
SYSTEM
ISSN:
0346-251X
Year:
2017
Vol.:
70
pp.
81 - 91
Journal:
LANGUAGE AND LAW
ISSN:
2194-7414
Year:
2017
Vol.:
6
pp.
1 - 17
Corpus use has revolutionised the teaching of languages for specific purposes. In this article, I review some of the ways in which corpus studies can enhance our understanding of the regularities in legal language, looking particularly at formulaic language in four different areas of legal language: academic law articles, case law (judgments and opinions), documents (contracts, merger agreements, etc.) and legislation. After a brief overview of lexical issues in legal language, I look in greater detail at 4- to 8-word bundles in legal texts. After some consideration of legal modality and recurring syntactic structures, I show how these aspects come together with the phenomenon of bundles and formulaicity. I then provide some examples of how the kind of information provided here by specialised corpora can be exploited for teaching purposes
Journal:
IBERICA
ISSN:
1139-7241
Year:
2017
Vol.:
34
pp.
67 - 88
Metaphorical language plays an important role in spreading and popularising scientific information. However, little is known about the process through which sober scientific research is transformed into colourful or even sensational news. This paper examines the main metaphor scenarios used to explain nutritional discoveries, generally related to the overarching metaphors of 'combat' and 'maintenance', and explores how they are developed and distributed across institutional press releases, online news reports, and magazines/blogs. Most of the metaphor scenarios seem to arise first in the press release, but these are considerably extended and embellished by the other media. Only occasionally are new metaphor scenarios engaged, which reflect societal discourses concerning science and nutrition.
Journal:
ESP TODAY
ISSN:
2334-9050
Year:
2017
Vol.:
5
N°:
2
pp.
196 - 221
In this paper we propose genre-based strategies for integrating two key lifelong competencies, critical and creative thinking, in Engineering and Journalism. In both disciplines there is a need to apply professional expertise in various contexts and to communicate with different audiences. Drawing on previous studies, we sketch a basic needs analysis in these professional fields, point to major learning obstacles, and provide guidelines for collaboration between language and content teachers in English-medium instruction settings. In such collaboration, genre is simultaneously the hub, the framing structure, and the shared middle ground between content and form and even between disparate disciplines. Our goal is an integrative pedagogy that merges the acquisition of disciplinary content and procedures with the practice of `soft skills¿ and the ability to transform and interrelate knowledge. Our contention for both Engineering and Journalism is that by allowing students to understand genres and explore their potential, we can provide them with learning experiences in which critical thinking and creativity are engaged.
Journal:
CULTURA, LENGUAJE Y REPRESENTACION
ISSN:
1697-7750
Year:
2017
Vol.:
18
pp.
7 - 25
Political discourse is rich in dichotomies, but there is considerable variation in the way this rhetorical strategy is used. This article explores the dichotomies in two of Donald Trump¿s high-profile pre-election speeches, showing how the speaker uses a full range of attitudinal resources to exploit their persuasive effects. To ensure a systematic analysis, Appraisal theory is used, which proves productive to analyse political speeches on the different levels proposed, particularly when the regions of affect and judgement/appreciation are considered holistically.
El discurso político se sirve de las dicotomías, pero la aplicación concreta de esta estrategia ofrece una variación considerable. En este artículo se estudian las dicotomías que surgen en dos de los discursos más conocidos de la campaña electoral de Donald Trump, y se investiga cómo el hablante usa una amplia gama de recursos actitudinales para conseguir unos efectos persuasivos potentes. La teoría de la valoración, aplicada aquí para sistematizar el análisis de los textos, se demuestra fructífera para el abordaje de los discursos políticos en los distintos niveles propuestos, especialmente cuando se consideran de forma holística los niveles del afecto y del juicio/apreciación.
Journal:
ESE. ESTUDIOS SOBRE EDUCACION
ISSN:
1578-7001
Year:
2016
Vol.:
31
pp.
187 - 190
Journal:
JOURNAL OF IMMERSION AND CONTENT-BASED LANGUAGE EDUCATION
ISSN:
2212-8433
Year:
2016
Vol.:
4
N°:
2
pp.
282 - 284
Journal:
PHILOLOGIA HISPALENSIS
ISSN:
1132-0265
Year:
2016
Vol.:
30
N°:
1/2
pp.
265 - 266
Journal:
ESE. ESTUDIOS SOBRE EDUCACION
ISSN:
1578-7001
Year:
2016
Vol.:
31
pp.
184 - 186
Journal:
LANGUAGE AWARENESS
ISSN:
0965-8416
Year:
2016
Vol.:
25
N°:
4
pp.
318 - 335
Journal:
TEXT AND TALK
ISSN:
1860-7330
Year:
2016
Vol.:
36
N°:
4
pp.
363 - 389
Although arbitration is increasingly being used to settle important disputes, particularly on an international level, little attention has focused on the language used by arbitrators. This article contains a qualitative analysis of the discursive moves and resources used in separate (dissenting and concurring) opinions published on the website of the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes from 1987 to 2013. Arbitrators' discursive practices in this forum are analyzed, with a particular focus on the tensions that arise between the need to sustain the arbitral system and maintain professional relations, on the one hand, and the equally pressing need to display commitment to the losing party's cause, on the other. These tensions have parallels in other areas of legal practice and professional life, and can be understood as part of the way power systems operate and replicate through discourse
Journal:
ESE. ESTUDIOS SOBRE EDUCACION
ISSN:
1578-7001
Year:
2016
Vol.:
31
pp.
9 - 12
Journal:
PRAGMATICS
ISSN:
1018-2101
Year:
2016
Vol.:
26
N°:
1
pp.
1 - 19
Journal:
ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES
ISSN:
0889-4906
Year:
2016
Vol.:
42
pp.
50 - 65
Journal:
DISCOURSE, CONTEXT & MEDIA
ISSN:
2211-6958
Year:
2015
Vol.:
10
pp.
36 - 44
Although second person pronouns are relatively unusual in formal written genres, they are frequent in the editorials of some newspapers. This has been associated with ongoing trends towards a more informal style of public discourse, and with the construction of more equal relationships between writers and readers, which may be either ideologically or economically motivated. This analysis of all the instances of "you" in Guardian editorials for 2011 brings to light several different ways in which the writer employs the second person. Although the primary motivation appears to be epideictic, in that the writer seeks to forge strong bonds with the readership and thereby strengthen the sense of communion and shared values, some other uses are identified, including dramatisation and irony. This leads on to consideration of the type of reader constructed by these uses of "you", and the relationships projected between writer/newspaper, reader, and other entities
Journal:
ESP TODAY
ISSN:
2334-9050
Year:
2015
Vol.:
3
N°:
2
pp.
238 - 242
Journal:
ESP TODAY
ISSN:
2334-9050
Year:
2015
Vol.:
3
N°:
1
pp.
44 - 63
Journal:
IBERICA
ISSN:
1139-7241
Year:
2014
N°:
27
pp.
233 - 235
Journal:
DISCOURSE AND COMMUNICATION
ISSN:
1750-4813
Year:
2014
Vol.:
8
N°:
3
pp.
241 - 259
Journal:
RESEARCH NOTES
ISSN:
1756-509X
Year:
2014
Vol.:
57
pp.
3 - 13
Journal:
LFE. REVISTA DE LENGUAS PARA FINES ESPECIFICOS
ISSN:
1133-1127
Year:
2013
Vol.:
19
pp.
452 - 458
Journal:
LANGUAGE LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION
ISSN:
2191-611X
Year:
2013
Vol.:
2
N°:
2
pp.
339 - 351
This article deals with university language teaching in the perspective of its shift from linguistic competence towards communicative competence, and presents some aspects of the underlying process. It analyses the findings from a survey conducted within the Leonardo project "Transparency in the Acquired Language Competences" (TALC; SK/05/B/F/LA-177427). This survey was organised using a genre-based approach to identify language needs in real professional contexts. Its results point to the need to focus on integrated skills in course design. Ideally, learning should model the processes linked to the genres typically used by in-group members of an academic/professional field, which generally involve coordinated use of two or more skills. This integrated skills model of professional language use provides a sound basis for language programme design. The article presents examples of language programmes of various different lengths
Journal:
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CORPUS LINGUISTICS
ISSN:
1384-6655
Year:
2013
Vol.:
18
N°:
2
pp.
229 - 253
Legal language is often said to be formulaic, but little research is available on the nature of frequently occurring sequences of words in different legal genres. This article investigates the lexical bundles found in four legal corpora: academic law, case law, legislation, and documents. Major differences are brought to light between the type of bundles that are found, and the roles they have in the text. Academic legal writing uses relatively little formulaic language. Case law uses noun phrase bundles relating to agents, documents and actions, as well as many extended prepositional phrases. Legislation and documents contain many noun phrase bundles, and verb phrase bundles with a deontic or referential function. The function of these different types of bundle as parts of a schematic frame or as slot-fillers is discussed
Journal:
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW
ISSN:
0952-8059
Year:
2012
Vol.:
25
N°:
3
pp.
393 - 413
ICS
Journal:
DISCOURSE AND SOCIETY
ISSN:
0957-9265
Year:
2012
Vol.:
23
N°:
1
pp.
3 - 18
ICS
Journal:
LANGUAGE VALUE
ISSN:
1989-7103
Year:
2012
Vol.:
4
N°:
1
pp.
84 - 96
ICS Aunque las combinaciones verbo-partícula suelen ser relativamente poco comunes en inglés formal, se producen con cierta frecuencia en textos relacionados con la economía, y específicamente en el análisis periodístico y académico centrado en los mercados financieros. La primera parte de este trabajo consiste en un estudio de corpus de las combinaciones verbo-partícula encontradas en dos corpus de 200.000 palabras de inglés para los negocios, uno que contiene informes de mercado del Financial Times, y el otro, trabajos académicos de investigación de economía extraídos de una serie de revistas con sistema de evaluación por pares. Las partículas UP, DOWN, OFF, OUT, BACK y AHEAD resultan ser especialmente frecuentes, en combinación con una amplia gama de verbos, principalmente de movimiento. La última sección del documento ofrece algunos modelos para crear ejercicios con finalidades didácticas, que empiezan a partir de un análisis de las metáforas asociadas con cada partícula y avanzan hacia la comprensión de ejemplos reales de los informes de mercado publicados en el Financial Times
Journal:
PRAGMATICS
ISSN:
1018-2101
Year:
2011
Vol.:
21
N°:
4
pp.
493 - 525
This article briefly reviews the rise of Critical Discourse Analysis and teases out a detailed analysis of the various critiques that have been levelled at CDA and its practitioners over the last twenty years, both by scholars working within the "critical" paradigm and by other critics. A range of criticisms are discussed which target the underlying premises, the analytical methodology and the disputed areas of reader response and the integration of contextual factors. Controversial issues such as the predominantly negative focus of much CDA scholarship, and the status of CDA as an emergent "intellectual orthodoxy", are also reviewed. The conclusions offer a summary of the principal criticisms that emerge from this overview, and suggest some ways in which these problems could be attenuated
Journal:
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC ENGLISH
ISSN:
1754-6850
Year:
2011
N°:
38
pp.
28 - 30
ICS
Journal:
IBERICA
ISSN:
1139-7241
Year:
2011
Vol.:
21
pp.
93 - 115
The last 20 years have seen increasing interest in the way in which meaning is made in different professional and academic disciplines. Central to this issue is the notion of disciplinary values, that is, qualities which define what is prized or stigmatised by different professional communities. In the present paper, the notion of disciplinary values is used to examine the way legal writers communicate meaning in different genres. To this end, six adjective/adverb sets which have a prominent place in legal discourse ("clear/ly", "important/ly", "reasonable/ly", "appropriate/ly", "correct/ly" and "proper/ly") are identified. Their collocates and semantic preferences are studied in four 500,000-word corpora consisting of texts from the area of commercial law: academic journal articles, case law, legislation, and legal documents. Although the frequency and use of "clear/ly" and "important/ly" appear not to differ greatly from those found in other corpora of written and academic written texts such as the British National Corpus (BNC) and the British Academic Written English corpus (BAWE), "reasonable/ly", "appropriate/ly", "correct/ly" and "proper/ly" were found to be salient in some or all of the subcorpora. The reasons for this are then analysed within the framework of disciplinary values. These words appear to convey attributes that have particular importance in the legal profession, reflecting disciplinary values that cross the boundaries between various written genres
Journal:
CULTURA, LENGUAJE Y REPRESENTACION
ISSN:
1697-7750
Year:
2011
Vol.:
9
pp.
9 - 30
ICS
Books
Place:
Lanham
Publisher:
Lexington Books
Year:
2024
For centuries the people of Africa have been on the move, seeking new opportunities, fleeing from dangers, or tragically uprooted through human greed and cruelty. In the twenty-first century, with over 40 million people migrating from and within Africa each year, it is clear that migration still has a significant impact on every aspect of African life. For this reason, Sarali Gintsburg and Ruth Breeze in their new book, African Migrations: Traversing Hybrid Landscapes, explore the hybrid landscapes of African migration and provide new insights into the complexity of migratory movements and migrant experiences associated with the African continent. Taking the view that the only ecologically valid way to understand migration is by looking at it through the eyes of the migrants themselves, the authors draw on a wide spectrum of first-hand evidence from a multitude of sources, including testimonies, media artefacts, workplace experiences, interviews, and ethnographic observations. The contributors reflect on a wide array of themes linked to the African context, such as diasporic mapping of landscapes, hybridity, heterotopia, métissage, cultural mixing, and complementation. This book presents the African continent not only in its cultural diversity but also to cover the complex and wide trajectories of migrations to, from and within Africa.
Place:
Hamburgo
Publisher:
Graphic design: Criamagin
Year:
2023
Place:
London
Publisher:
Bloomsbury
Year:
2022
Place:
London
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year:
2022
Place:
London
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year:
2022
This book provides practical help and guidance for non-native English-speaking higher education lecturers faced with the need to deliver lectures and seminars in English. It builds on the authors' years of experience as researchers and teacher trainers in the area of English Medium Instruction (EMI), combining practical advice and research findings with useful case studies from different global settings, including Australia, China, Hong Kong, Slovakia, Spain, the UK and the USA, and a range of subject areas, such as philosophy, mathematics and genetics. The authors present an overview of what generally happens when university teachers make the transition to teaching in English. After dispelling some common myths and setting out priorities, Ruth Breeze and Carmen Sancho Guinda move on to explain how practitioners can prepare to give lectures and interact with both local and international students effectively in English, tackling difficult issues, such as encouraging participation, promoting creativity and critical thinking, and evaluating written student work. The final chapters address good practices in EMI, proposing ways to achieve excellence in global settings.
Place:
Pamplona
Publisher:
Ediciones Universidad de Navarra (EUNSA)
Year:
2020
Metaphors play a central role in political discourse: the images we use to speak about an issue both reveal and configure the way we think about it. In situations of conflict, the metaphors people choose are particularly significant, as they can be used to provoke strong reactions and manipulate public opinion, but also to propose creative approaches to restoring harmony. This collection of studies explores the use of metaphor in contemporary political contexts from the USA to Spain, the Netherlands, Russia and Iran, covering a range of genres from speeches and parliamentary debates to social media.
Place:
Newcastle
Publisher:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Year:
2020
Se trata de un libro coeditado con: Girolamo Tessuto, Vijay K. Bhatia, Nicholas Brownlees, Martin Solly
Place:
Amsterdam
Publisher:
John Benjamins
Year:
2019
The political landscape in Europe is currently going through a phase of rapid change. New actors and movements that claim to represent 'the will of the people' are attracting considerable public attention, with dramatic consequences for election outcomes. This volume explores the new political order with a particular focus on discursive constructions of 'the people' and the category of populism across the spectrum. It shows how a unitary representation of 'the people' is a central element in a vast range of very diverse political discourses today, acting to anchor identities and project antagonisms in a multitude of settings. The chapters in this book explore commonality and contrast in representations of `the people¿ in both radical and mainstream political movements, looking in depth at recent political discourses in the European sphere. The authors draw on approaches ranging from Essex-style discourse theory over critical discourse studies, corpus analysis and linguistic pragmatics, to investigate how historically situated categories such as the people and populism become fixed through local linguistic, textual and narrative practices as well as through wider ideological and discursive patterns.
Place:
Berlin
Publisher:
Peter Lang
Year:
2019
Place:
Pamplona
Publisher:
Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra
Year:
2018
Place:
Bern
Publisher:
Peter Lang
Year:
2017
Despite the apparent novelty and fluidity of the media today, there is strong evidence that patterns are emerging which both reflect and extend the evaluative paradigms previously observed in the print and broadcast media. In this complex scenario, discourse analysis offers a rich and varied methodology for understanding the different types of evaluation conveyed through media texts and the way these project, reflect and develop their relationships with their audience. The chapters in this volume draw on a variety of analytical tools, including appraisal analysis, argumentation theory, multimodal approaches and corpus linguistics, to address the issue of evaluation in media discourse. The theoretical underpinning for these chapters ranges from corpus-informed discourse studies, through critical discourse analysis and semio-communicative approaches, to Bakhtinian perspectives. Although the chapters are all in English, the scope of the volume is broadly European, covering aspects of the British, Spanish, Dutch and German media in their traditional and online manifestations, as well as contrastive studies
Place:
Bern
Publisher:
Peter Lang Verlag
Year:
2017
This volume focuses on the study of linguistic manipulation, persuasion and power in the written texts of professional communication, to go further into the understanding of how they are constructed, interpreted, used and exploited in the achievement of specific goals. Such texts are here contemplated from the stance of genre theory, which starts from the premise that specialised communities have a high level of rhetorical sophistication, the keys to which are offered solely to their members. In particular, the book investigates the communicative devices that serve the need of such professions to exert power and manipulation, and to use persuasion. The perspective adopted in this work does not envisage power simply as a distant, alienated and alienating supremacy from above, but as an everyday, socialized and embodied phenomenon. To attain its goal, the volume brings forth studies on the language of several professions belonging to various specialised fields such as law and arbitration, engineering, economics, advertising, business, politics, medicine, social work, education and the media
Place:
Pamplona
Publisher:
Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra
Year:
2016
Place:
Dordrecht
Publisher:
Springer
Year:
2016
Place:
London
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Year:
2015
Corporate discourse examines business communication practices from a discourse perspective, looking in detail at the ways in which corporations around the world communicate with individuals, with other collective entities and with the world at large. It is concerned with understanding how language works in business contexts and how corporate identity and personal and professional relationships are configured through discourse. Using a range of analytical techniques to examine different forms of textual evidence from companies operating in many sectors, this book maps out current developments in corporate discourse against the complex background of globalization
Place:
Amsterdam
Publisher:
Rodopi
Year:
2014
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has now become a feature of education in Europe from primary school to university level. CLIL programmes are intended to integrate language and content learning in a process of mutual enrichment. Yet there is little consensus as to how this is to be achieved, or how the outcomes of such programmes should be measured. It is evident that a further type of integration is required: that of bringing the practice of CLIL into closer contact with the theory. In this, it is necessary to establish the role played by other fundamental aspects of the learning process, including learner and teacher perspectives, learning strategies, task design and general pedagogical approaches. The first part of this book provides a variety of theoretical approaches to the question of what integration means in CLIL, addressing key skills and competences that are taught and learned in CLIL classrooms, and exploring the role of content and language teachers in achieving an integrated syllabus. The second part takes specific cases and experimental studies conducted at different educational levels and analyses them in the light of theoretical considerations
Place:
Bern
Publisher:
Peter Lang
Year:
2014
Few concepts in Discourse Studies are so versatile and intricate and have been so frequently contested as interpersonality. This construct offers ample terrain for new research, since it can be viewed using a range of diverse theoretical frameworks, employing a variety of analytical tools and social perspectives.
Studies on the relationship between writer/reader and speaker/audience in the legal field are still scarce, dispersed, and limited to a narrow range of genres and a restricted notion of interpersonality, since they are most often confined to modality and the Gricean cooperative principles.
This volume is meant to help bridge this gap. Its chapters show the realisation and distribution of interpersonal features in specific legal genres. The aim is to achieve an expansion of the concept of interpersonality, which besides modality, Grice¿s maxims and other traditionally interpersonal features, might comprise or relate to ideational and textual issues like narrative disclosure, typography, rhetorical variation, or Plain English, among others
Place:
Londres
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year:
2013
Corporate discourse examines business communication practices from a discourse perspective, looking in detail at the ways in which corporations around the world communicate with individuals, with other collective entities and with the world at large. It is concerned with understanding how language works in business contexts and how corporate identity and personal and professional relationships are configured through discourse. Using a range of analytical techniques to examine different forms of textual evidence from companies operating in many sectors, this book maps out current developments in corporate discourse against the complex background of globalization
Place:
Amsterdam
Publisher:
Rodopi
Year:
2012
All over Europe, universities are moving over to English as the language of instruction. This development has been accelerated by global forces, and its pedagogical consequences have yet to be fully explored. This book examines this situation from the point of view of students and teachers, focusing particularly on the acquisition of English language writing skills in European university contexts. It takes an academic approach, and is firmly grounded in the bibliography on teaching academic writing to second language users in English-speaking countries, as well as in the bibliography on teaching English in Europe in higher education. In addition to providing sound pedagogical guidelines, it also brings together the most recent critiques of current practice and an overview of the innovative approaches devised in the last ten years. This is a book for all those who are involved in the changing European university scenario: English teachers and writing instructors, lecturers faced with the challenge of teaching their courses in English, university administrators and decision-makers
Place:
Pamplona
Publisher:
Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra
Year:
2012
Book chapters
Book title:
African Migrations: Traversing Hybrid Landscapes
Place:
Lanham
Publisher:
Lexington Books
Year:
2024
pp.
109 - 127
For centuries the people of Africa have been on the move, seeking new opportunities, fleeing from dangers, or tragically uprooted through human greed and cruelty. In the twenty-first century, with over 40 million people migrating from and within Africa each year, it is clear that migration still has a significant impact on every aspect of African life. For this reason, Sarali Gintsburg and Ruth Breeze in their new book, African Migrations: Traversing Hybrid Landscapes, explore the hybrid landscapes of African migration and provide new insights into the complexity of migratory movements and migrant experiences associated with the African continent. Taking the view that the only ecologically valid way to understand migration is by looking at it through the eyes of the migrants themselves, the authors draw on a wide spectrum of first-hand evidence from a multitude of sources, including testimonies, media artefacts, workplace experiences, interviews, and ethnographic observations. The contributors reflect on a wide array of themes linked to the African context, such as diasporic mapping of landscapes, hybridity, heterotopia, métissage, cultural mixing, and complementation. This book presents the African continent not only in its cultural diversity but also to cover the complex and wide trajectories of migrations to, from and within Africa.
Book title:
African Migrations: Traversing Hybrid Landscapes
Place:
Lanham
Publisher:
Lexington Books
Year:
2024
pp.
1 - 14
Book title:
African Migrations: Traversing Hybrid Landscapes
Place:
Lanham
Publisher:
Lexington Books
Year:
2024
pp.
169 - 186
Book title:
Digital Scientific Communication. Identity and Visibility in Research Dissemination
Place:
Cham
Publisher:
Palgrave MacMillan
Year:
2023
pp.
33 - 52
Book title:
Popularisation as a Method of Knowledge Mediation in Legal Linguistics
Place:
Berlin
Publisher:
LIT Verlag
Year:
2023
pp.
285 - 312
The focus of Legal Linguistics (Rechtslinguistik) has shifted from lexical, syntactic and terminological issues to expert-lay communication. This volume focuses on popularisation as a method of knowledge mediation in the law. It deals with different forms of communication (e.g., explanatory videos, brochures, websites), addressees (e.g., children, adolescents, adults), topics (e.g., empathy, emotions, trust), settings (e.g., courts, law firms, EU institutions), and finally, specific areas of law (e.g., inheritance law, criminal law, environmental law). The contributions, written in German and English, discuss theoretical issues and apply them practically to the corpus. The book is stimulating for anyone wanting to delve more deeply into the topic of popularisation.
Book title:
Remedies against the Pandemic How politicians communicate crisis management
Place:
Amsterdam
Publisher:
John Benjamins
Year:
2023
pp.
276 - 298
Book title:
Research Handbook on Jurilinguistics
Publisher:
Edward Elgar Publishing
Year:
2023
pp.
348 - 359
Book title:
Languages of Politics
Place:
Newcastle
Publisher:
Cambridge Scholar Publishing
Year:
2023
pp.
37 - 58
Book title:
Narrating migrations from Africa and the Middle East. A spatio-temporal approach
Place:
London
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year:
2022
pp.
121 - 142
The recent waves of migration from Africa and the Middle East to Europe have given rise to an ample volume of research in areas as diverse as sociology, law, international relations, geography and global security. However, such studies tend to focus on members of the active population, mainly men, and young people in full-time education, probably because of the relative ease of contacting these groups. Despite the considerable presence of women in the migrant population, they tend to be less visible than their male counterparts and have attracted less research attention. However, this very invisibility suggests that female migrants have greater difficulty accessing public spaces and are accordingly less integrated into European societies. This problem seems to be particularly acute among women from the Muslim world, where various factors seem to hinder them from participating actively in the workplace.
Book title:
Narrating migrations from Africa and the middle east: a spatio-temporal approach
Place:
London
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Year:
2022
pp.
1 - 14
Narrating Space and Time in Migration Ruth Breeze Sarali Gintsburg Mike Baynham Migration is one of the defining issues of our time. The number of international migrants worldwide has grown enormously over the last half century, motivated by a series of extremely powerful pull and push factors at work on a global level. The scale of this phenomenon is such that today, on a global level, one in every thirty people lives in a country where he/she was not born, with the current number of migrants estimated at 270 million. Substantial numbers of these migrants originated in the Middle East and North Africa region, and also in sub-Saharan Africa, and were motivated, despite danger and hardship, by the promise of a better life elsewhere. Many of them have crossed the Mediterranean or negotiated complex land routes to Turkey and onwards to Europe, while others have remained in countries near their...
Book title:
Law, language and the courtroom: legal linguistics and the discourse of judges
Place:
London
Publisher:
Routledge
Year:
2022
pp.
69 - 82
This chapter examines the digital media representations of the 2019 UK Supreme Court¿s ruling that declared Prime Minister Boris Johnson¿s suspension of Parliament to be unlawful. Using framing analysis supported by corpus-assisted discourse analysis, it explores how this ruling, and presiding Supreme Court judge, Baroness Hale, were woven into public debates concerning Brexit and democracy. Digital comments on the events were subsumed into populist anti-establishment frames, and the judges themselves were discredited through symbolic representations as ¿conspiratorial¿, ¿unpatriotic¿, and ¿treacherous¿, with particular misogynist undertones evoked through references to witchcraft and the supernatural used in the context of Baroness Hale herself.
Book title:
Discourse Studies in Public Communication
Place:
Amsterdam
Publisher:
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year:
2021
pp.
15 - 38
In European politics today, the issues of nationalism and populism are attracting considerable research attention. However, most discourse studies have either focused exclusively on far-right politics, or have looked at populism at both extremes of the political spectrum. In this chapter, I approach the discursive representation of the nation and the people from an exploratory, comparative perspective informed by corpus assisted discourse studies, drawing on mixed methodology, and focusing on the politics of Great Britain. My corpus contains six 2017 election manifestos: Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrats, UKIP, Scottish National Party, and Plaid Cymru. Principled searches are conducted for references to nations, national groups and people/citizens, which are then analysed qualitatively in a contrastive perspective.
Book title:
Metaphor in political conflict. Populism and discourse
Place:
Pamplona
Publisher:
Ediciones Universidad de Navarra (EUNSA)
Year:
2020
pp.
177 - 208
Book title:
Metaphor in political conflict. Populism and discourse
Place:
Pamplona
Publisher:
Ediciones Universidad de Navarra (EUNSA)
Year:
2020
pp.
11 - 25
Book title:
English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and the Underlying Dynamics of Power, Empowerment and Disempowerment
Place:
Grenoble
Publisher:
Institut des Langues et Cultures d'Europe, Amérique, Afrique, Asie et Australie
Year:
2020
pp.
1 - 16
Book title:
Politics and populism across modes and media
Place:
Bern
Publisher:
Peter Lang
Year:
2019
pp.
259 - 281
Book title:
Discourse and Politics
Place:
Belgrade
Publisher:
Institute for Political Studies
Year:
2019
pp.
151 - 172
Book title:
Imagining the peoples of Europe. Populist discourses across the political spectrum
Place:
Amsterdam
Publisher:
John Benjamins
Year:
2019
pp.
363-372
Book title:
Science Communication on the Internet. Old genres meet new genres
Place:
Amsterdam
Publisher:
John Benjamins
Year:
2019
pp.
107 - 129
The move to new open access formats in scientific peer review is thought to have influenced the way referees and authors interact. This chapter considers the genre of author responses to referees in terms of relational work, and compares published responses in an anonymized online open access review system with a similar corpus of confidential responses to referees submitted by traditional means. In general, the online open access responses are longer, more syntactically complex and show more evidence of relational work than the confidential responses. However, when analyzed qualitatively, the proportions of different compliant and non-compliant moves are found to be similar in the two corpora. This chapter thus illustrates continuity and change in one genre¿s transition from traditional to open, online format.
Book title:
Emotion in Discourse
Place:
Amsterdam
Publisher:
John Benjamins
Year:
2019
pp.
113 - 138
Cross-linguistic studies of phraseology enable us to draw increasingly accurate maps of the specific ways different languages express emotions. This chapter focuses on the phraseology used to express emotions in Spanish, taking English as its point of comparison. We situate the topic within the broad perspective of the presence, absence and control of the emotions, centering exclusively on expressions consisting of non-emotional lexis. First, we investigate phrases indicating presence and absence of emotions in Spanish and English. Second, we examine emotional control and lack of control, finding different patterns in the use of the underlying container metaphor. Finally, we explore linguistic affordances for expressing uncomfortable but vague emotions. We conclude with some comparisons between Spanish and English phraseology.
Book title:
Populist discourse: critical approaches to contemporary politics
Place:
London
Publisher:
Routledge
Year:
2019
pp.
120 - 135
Book title:
Imagining the peoples of Europe: Populist discourses across the political spectrum
Place:
Amsterdam
Publisher:
John Benjamins
Year:
2019
pp.
1 - 18
Book title:
Politics and populism across modes and media
Place:
Bern
Publisher:
Peter Lang Publishing
Year:
2019
pp.
7 - 21
Book title:
Corpus based research on variation in English legal discourse
Place:
Amsterdam
Publisher:
John Benjamins
Year:
2019
pp.
79 - 103
Four corpora constructed from different genre families in business law (academic texts, case law, legal documents, and legislation) are analysed in terms of key parts of speech. The differences between them show that legal academic writing and case law tend to follow patterns comparable to argumentative texts elsewhere, while documents and legislation show unusual patterns of cohesion and modality. These phenomena are related to the functional requirements of the genres in question, and to disciplinary conventions.
Book title:
Engagement in Professional Genres. Deference and disclosure
Place:
Amsterdam
Publisher:
John Benjamins
Year:
2019
pp.
197 - 216
The complex culture of the large corporation today is mainly shaped by persuasive rather than coercive means. In its messages, the company moulds its own identity and proposes roles for the different players through discourse, providing the information that is considered appropriate to each addressee, and suggesting what behaviours are desirable or acceptable. This trend is most intense at the beginning of a person¿s life with the firm. How a corporate body engages with would-be and recent recruits is of considerable interest to analysts who focus on the workings of discourse in society. This chapter explores the system of engagement operating multimodally in the recruitment and careers websites of twenty high-profile companies
Book title:
Engagement in Professional Genres
Place:
Amsterdam
Publisher:
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year:
2019
pp.
197 - 215
Book title:
Populist Discourse. International Perspectives.
Place:
Cham
Publisher:
Palgrave MacMillan
Year:
2019
pp.
27 - 58
Book title:
Legal Linguistics Beyond Borders: Language and Law in a World of Media, Globalisation and Social Conflicts
Place:
Berlin
Publisher:
Duncker & Humblot
Year:
2019
pp.
291 - 313
Book title:
Phraseology in Legal and Institutional Settings: A Corpus-based Interdisciplinary Perspective
Place:
London
Publisher:
Routledge
Year:
2018
pp.
221 - 239
Book title:
Essential Competencies for English-medium University Teaching
Place:
Basel
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing
Year:
2017
pp.
37 - 49
Book title:
Teaching English reflectively with technology
Place:
Canterbury
Publisher:
IATEFL
Year:
2017
pp.
51 - 63
Despite the importance teachers and learners attach to having an acceptable pronunciation for successful communication, its teaching and learning may still present a complex challenge. In practice, this might result in its neglect by the teacher in the classroom. For the student, this means a missed opportunity and, perhaps, a sense of frustration. This article reflects on the possible contributions ICT (information and communication technologies) can make to improve pronunciation when students return to language learning as adults. The results of our research show that students improve their pronunciation and strengthen their own commitment to continue learning
Book title:
¿Cómo la innovación mejora la calidad de la enseñanza del Derecho? Propuestas en un mundo global.
Place:
Cizur Menor
Publisher:
Thomson Reuters-Aranzadi
Year:
2017
pp.
23 - 37
Book title:
Evidentiality revisited
Place:
Amsterdam
Publisher:
John Benjamins
Year:
2016
pp.
295 - 311
Book title:
English as a Scientific and Research Language
Place:
Berlin
Publisher:
De Gruyter
Year:
2015
pp.
37 - 58
Book title:
Insights into Medical Communication
Place:
Bern
Publisher:
Peter Lang
Year:
2015
pp.
311 - 330
Book title:
Publizistik und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung: Festschrift für Wolfgang Donsbach
Place:
Wiesbaden
Publisher:
Springer
Year:
2015
pp.
215 - 226
Sixty years ago, Harwood and Cartier (1953a) suggested that the progress in certain areas of knowledge tended ¿to underscore the need for a general theory of communication¿. In view of the vast range of different proposals from different disciplines, they concluded that whatever else, they had to avoid emulating the character invented by Stephen Leacock, who ¿mounted his horse and rode off furiously in all directions.¿ Communications theorists have charged around enthusiastically ever since then, leading us to the situation described by Donsbach (2006), who emphasizes that, despite the extraordinary way in which communication has flourished in academia, it still lacks an identity of its own as a field of research, or perhaps has even actually lost the one it originally had. Although a considerable volume of empirical evidence exists concerning the communication process, this area of research can increasingly be seen to be suffering from a kind of erosion on the one hand, and a flawed epistemology on the other
Book title:
Language and Law in Professional Discourse: Issues and Perspectives
Place:
Newcastle upon Tyne
Publisher:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Year:
2014
pp.
93 - 108
Book title:
Integration of theory and practice in CLIL
Place:
Amsterdam
Publisher:
Rodopi
Year:
2014
pp.
143 - 159
Book title:
Languages for specific purposes in the digital era
Place:
Cham
Publisher:
Springer Verlag
Year:
2014
pp.
111 - 128
Explores the direct relation of modern CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning) to aspects of natural language processing for theoretical and practical applications, and worldwide demand for formal language education and training that focuses on restricted or specialized professional domains. Unique in its broad-based, state-of-the-art, coverage of current knowledge and research in the interrelated fields of computer-based learning and teaching and processing of specialized linguistic domains. The articles in this book offer insights on or analyses of the current state and future directions of many recent key concepts regarding the application of computers to natural languages, such as: authenticity, personalization, normalization, evaluation. Other articles present fundamental research on major techniques, strategies and methodologies that are currently the focus of international language research projects, both of a theoretical and an applied nature
Book title:
Evaluation in context
Place:
Amsterdam
Publisher:
John Benjamins
Year:
2014
pp.
303 - 320
In a world dominated by the Internet, it is becoming increasingly important to develop analytical tools that can take in multiple dimensions of media texts. This chapter presents a multimodal analysis of a corpus of online newspaper texts about controversies surrounding the wearing of religious items by Muslims, Sikhs and Christians, which received considerable media coverage in Britain in early 2010. Although the text itself generally provides a balanced account of the issues, a comparison of the results across modes shows that the groups are evaluated differently in visual images, headlines and direct quotations. This study represents a step on the road to devising an integrative model for multimodal analysis
Book title:
Language Use in the Public Sphere: Methodological Perspectives and Empirical Applications
Place:
Bern
Publisher:
Peter Lang
Year:
2014
pp.
271 - 307
Book title:
Interpersonality in Legal Genres
Place:
Bern
Publisher:
Peter Lang
Year:
2014
pp.
281 - 302
Book title:
Léxico y argumentación en el discurso público actual
Place:
Frankfurt am Main
Publisher:
Peter Lang
Year:
2013
pp.
13 - 27
Book title:
Verbal and visual rhetoric in a media world
Place:
Leiden
Publisher:
Leiden University Press
Year:
2013
pp.
193 - 207
Book title:
Narratives in Academic and Professional Genres
Place:
Bern
Publisher:
Peter Lang
Year:
2013
pp.
343 - 362
Book title:
New Perspectives on (Im)Politeness and Interpersonal Communication
Place:
Newcastle upon Tyne
Publisher:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Year:
2012
pp.
220 - 237
Book title:
Discourse and Practice in International Commercial Arbitration : Issues, Challenges and Prospects
Place:
Farnham
Publisher:
Ashgate
Year:
2012
pp.
113 - 127
Book title:
Communication and social life: Studies in Honor of Professor Esteban López-Escobar
Place:
Pamplona
Publisher:
Ediciones Universidad de Navarra (EUNSA)
Year:
2012
pp.
29 - 52
Book title:
IELTS collected papers 2: research in reading and listening assessment
Place:
Cambridge
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Year:
2012
pp.
487 - 518
Book title:
Technological Innovation in the Teaching and Processing of LSPs: Proceedings of TISLID'10
Place:
Madrid
Publisher:
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Year:
2011
pp.
397- 404
Book title:
English for Professional and Academic Purposes
Place:
Amsterdam
Publisher:
Rodopi
Year:
2010
pp.
181 - 196
Book title:
Exploring Corpus-Based Research in English Language Teaching
Place:
Castellón de la Plana
Publisher:
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I
Year:
2010
pp.
77 - 86
Book title:
Constructing Interpersonality: multiple perspectives and applications to written academic discourse
Place:
Newcastle upon Tyne
Publisher:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Year:
2010
pp.
163 - 180
