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Development of discourse-pragmatic markers in a multilingual classroom: A mixed method research approach
(Elsevier, 2018)
Research has shown that being multilingual is a valuable asset for learning pragmatics.
By adopting a multilingual turn perspective, this study investigates patterns of
pragmatic development in the multilingual classroom ...
Multimodality in medicine: How university medical students approach informative leaflets
(Elsevier, 2018)
This study aims to analyse multimodality in medical leaflets to see how images and
other semiotic modes combine with text-flow, adding meaning to the message and
broadening the communicative spectrum. Traditionally, in ...
Revisiting persuasion in oral academic and professional genres: Towards a methodological framework for Multimodal Discourse Analysis of research dissemination talks
(Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos (AELFE), 2018)
Previous work on oral genres (Kress & Van Leeuwen, 2001; Kress, 2010;
Bateman, 2011) as well as on persuasion (O’Keefe, 2002; Perloff, 2003; Poggi &
Pelachaud, 2008) has indicated that effective ...
EFL Students' Preferences Towards Written Corrective Feedback: An Exploratory Study on Age and Level of Proficiency
(El Grupo de Investigación Hum 0271 de la Junta de Andalucía y la Universidad de Jaén, 2016)
Corrective feedback (CF, henceforth) has been an issue of investigation in
second language acquisition for a number of years now. In the English-as-aforeign-language
classroom, students may have different preferences ...
Polysemy derivation in a multidimensional framework
(Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Filología Inglesa, 2014)
The aim of this paper is to systematise and illustrate the process of semantic
network derivation within the multidimensional polysemy framework
(Navarro, 1998, 2006) by way of a detailed analysis of the preposition ...
Multimodal enactment of characters in conference presentations
(SAGE, 2019-05-13)
In academic oral genres such as conference presentations, speakers resort to more than
words to convey meaning. Research also suggests that persuasion, an important element of the
communicative purpose of conference ...
Pragmatic variation in British and International English language users' e-mail communication: a focus on requests
(Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada, AESLAJohn Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013)
The present study analyses the use of request strategies and
mitigation devices during academic cyber-consultation. More specifically, it explores
whether the degree of directness and mitigation in academic virtual ...
Researching Specialized Languages
(Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos (AELFE), 2014)
In the last few decades, the field of speci
alised language
s (LSP) has attracted
increasing attention no
t only as a discipline in itself but also as a
multidisciplinary area which
feeds ...
Pragmatic Development During Study Abroad: An Analysis of Spanish Teenagers’ Request Strategies in English Emails
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)
Previous research has shown that adolescent second language learners benefit from pragmatic instruction during study abroad (Alcón-Soler, 2015). As a follow-up investigation, the present study looked at late adolescent ...
Using American Coming-of-Age Stories in the ELT Classroom
(Janice Bland, Christiane Lütge and Sandie Mourão, 2017-05)
Reading constitutes solid grounds for the development of basic language and critical skills as well as for the improvement of Intercultural Communicative Competence. However, in a world dominated by visual media and ...