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Metaphors in the conceptualisation of meditative practices
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2017)
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 ...
The transmission of the Agnus Castus Herbal: from manuscript to early print
(Wydział I Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych PAN, 2021)
This article aims at understanding how scientific writing was evolving from the medieval to the Early Modern times through the study of two copies of the same text belonging to both periods: the Agnus Castus ...
Functional diversity and the multimodal listening construct
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)
Genuine instances of communication are multimodal in nature. Thus, important aspects of effective communication such as gestures, facial expression, visual context, or interpersonal distance, are usually present in listening ...
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 ...
When pointing becomes more than pointing: Multimodalevaluation in product pitches
(Elsevier, 2020)
The main function of a product pitch is to convince an audience of the validity of a product. This paper presents a study of evaluation as a persuasive strategy in product pitches. We combine Multimodal Discourse Analysis ...
Affordances and constraints on research publication: A comparative study of the language choices of Spanish historians and psychologists
(2015-06-16)
Research publication in the international arena, is crucial for multilingual scholars in most disciplinary areas. For many, among them Spanish scholars, it still represents a considerable hurdle. The findings we report ...