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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 ...
Evaluation in discussion sessions of conference presentations: theorical foundations for a multimodal analysis
(2014)
Discussions sessions have not received much attention within the genre of conference presentations. In this paper, we present the theoretical framework that underlies the approach followed to analyse the multimodal expression ...
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 ...
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 ...
Translation and language learning: AlfraCovalt as a tool for raising learners' pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic awareness of the speech act of requesting
(Universidade de Brasília, 2009)
Interlanguage pragmatic research has shown that speech act categories and their realisation strategies are found across languages. However, they do not apply to all languages in the same way. Leech (1983) and Thomas (1983) ...
Developing pragmatic awareness of suggestions in the EFL classroom: A focus on instructional effects
(University of New Brunswick, 2007)
The role of instruction to develop learners’ pragmatic competence in both second and foreign language contexts has recently motivated a great deal of research. However, most of this research has adopted an explicit ...
Teaching and Learning EFL Successfully Through An Online Environment: An Experimental Study With "Legal English" Students
(Quest Journals, 2016)
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are developing exponentially and are
having a great impact on the redefinition of learning and literacy in the 21st century. For this reason, ...
Technology and task-based language teaching (TBLT): Exploring pragmatics
(The University of the West Indies, 2018-08)
This paper focuses on the teaching of pragmatics in English as a Foreign Language classroom and how the traditional way of teaching languages can be challenged. It also aims to highlight the importance of incorporating ...
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 ...