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Lingua, 2021
In the introduction to this special issue we consider the dynamics of language from three interre... more In the introduction to this special issue we consider the dynamics of language from three interrelated perspectives: ontogenesis, or the development of the language system in the individual; logogenesis, or the development of meanings in across texts and discourses; and phylogenesis, or the changes to individual language systems over
time. We discuss how these three methods of development are intrinsically connected, feeding into each other in such a way that they can be theorised as essentially different spatiotemporal perspectives on the same phenomenon. From there we pose three central questions for the modelling of change and contrast in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), summarised briefly as: How can the theoretical and descriptive
architecture of SFL be developed to account for the dynamics between these three genetic systems? How can we account for the expansion of the meaning potential of individual languages as a result of these processes? And to what extent are the fundamental categories of SFL adequate to the description of languages other than English and, hence, to the comparison of different languages? We then provide an overview of how the different papers in this special issue respond to these three
questions.
Corpus-Based Approaches to English …, Jan 1, 2010
Since Krashen put forward his Input Hypothesis in 1985, many language acquisition theories stress... more Since Krashen put forward his Input Hypothesis in 1985, many language acquisition theories stress the importance of input in L2 acquisition, especially its critical role in our understanding of how learners create linguistic systems (Van Patten 2003: 25). The kind of input that teachers of higher education courses consider for learners of English Studies at tertiary level includes texts dealing with literary or cultural aspects of the L2 which also show great variation in terms of topic, style or length. One of the strategies to minimize this ...
La interfaz semántica-cognición: mecanismos de construcción del significado y lagunas de conocimi... more La interfaz semántica-cognición: mecanismos de construcción del significado y lagunas de conocimiento especializado Izaskun ELORZA Universidad de Salamanca Como citar este artículo: ELORZA, Izaskun (2003) «La interfaz semántica-cognición: mecanismos de construcción del significado y lagunas de conocimiento especializado», en MUÑOZ MARTÍN, Ricardo [ed.]
[ES] Esta Language Learning Roundtable Conference se centra en 'La lingüística de corpus para el ... more [ES] Esta Language Learning Roundtable Conference se centra en 'La lingüística de corpus para el aprendizaje de la lengua en el Siglo XXI'y busca explorar cómo y hasta qué punto la lingüística de corpus ha impregnado el aprendizaje de las lenguas extranjeras o las segundas lenguas, con un especial hincapié en los contextos educativos españoles y latinoamericanos, tanto en términos de la descripción de la lengua nativa o extranjera, como del aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera (típicamente la lengua inglesa).
Applied Linguistics Now Recurso Electronico Understanding Language and Mind La Linguistica Aplicada Actual Comprendiendo El Lenguaje Y La Mente 2009 Isbn 978 84 692 1479 4 Pags 1373 1382, 2009
VIAL, Vigo international journal of applied …, Jan 1, 2003
Resumen: La observación de análisis descriptivos de muestras de lenguaje real nos indica un uso m... more Resumen: La observación de análisis descriptivos de muestras de lenguaje real nos indica un uso muy variado de unidades analíticas. No obstante, la utilización de diferentes unidades de tipo supraoracional dificulta la generalización de los resultados obtenidos en estos análisis, por lo que supone un impedimento para la investigación textual. En este artículo delimitamos los conceptos de las unidades analíticas más relevantes mediante las dicotomías,, y. De este modo, determinamos la naturaleza de este problema para poder ...
The 29th AESLA Conference was held on the 4-6 May 2011, under the title 'Empiricism and analytica... more The 29th AESLA Conference was held on the 4-6 May 2011, under the title 'Empiricism and analytical tools for 21st Century Applied Linguistics'. Its objective was to offer a venue for researchers in several fields of Applied Linguistics to debate on theoretical, methodological, empirical and analytical aspects as regards language description.
Discourse analysis & multimodal analysis by Izaskun Elorza
Libros álbum que desafían los estereotipos de género y el concepto de familia tradicional, 2020
Este capítulo presenta un análisis de la identidad y los rasgos de atribución de los protagonista... more Este capítulo presenta un análisis de la identidad y los rasgos de atribución de los protagonistas de cinco libros álbum infantiles en lengua inglesa. El análisis se centra en los recursos léxico-gramaticales y visuales (Halliday, 1985 y 2004; Kress y Van Leeuwen, 2001 y 2006; Painter, Martin y Unsworth, 2013) utilizados para representar experiencialmente a los personajes protagonistas masculinos con una identidad de género que no se corresponde con el estereotipo tradicional. Se han estudiado la estabilidad y el cambio de sus rasgos identificativos y atributivos a lo largo de las narraciones, como aspectos relacionados con la aceptación social de los protagonistas y su relevancia para una educación en valores de tolerancia y comprensión
de la diferencia.
The contrastive analysis of two sets of newspaper articles has been carried out in order to obser... more The contrastive analysis of two sets of newspaper articles has been carried out in order to observe how the reports of the same events are constructed in two different languages and cultures as represented by El País and The Guardian newspapers. The first set of texts consists of two science popularization articles dealing with the same scientific finding (Bee Texts), whereas the second set consists of all the articles covering the opening day of a world summit held in Rome (Summit Texts) which were published in the online versions of El País and The Guardian respectively. Newsworthiness (Bell, 1991), attribution and lexicogrammatical strategies have been studied in order to show how ideological construction has been developed in these two different kinds of report, one dealing with a non-controversial event (as represented in the Bee Texts) and the other with a controversial event (as represented in the Summit Texts).
Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics Conference 2009 2009 Pag 395, 2009
Lenguas Para Fines Especificos Vii Investigacion Y Ensenanza 2002 Isbn 84 8138 486 0 Pags 41 48, 2002
This paper discusses how different voices are constructed along the narration of scientific findi... more This paper discusses how different voices are constructed along the narration of scientific findings in the discourse of popularization articles from newspapers. Our main aim is to see if there is any relation between the construction and indexing (Clift 2006) of authorial stance, in this case defined as the writer’s expression of feelings and assessments concerning epistemic considerations, attitudes and style (Conrad and Biber 2000; Bednarek 2006) and the introduction of external sources of information. We rely on Chafe’s (1986) broad notion of evidentiality as the attitudes towards knowledge, considering that knowledge is “the basic information whose status is qualified in one way or another by markers of evidentiality” (Chafe 1986: 262). Readers’ expectations about how popularizations are constructed include the assumption that the journalists narrate scientific findings objectively, without expressing their personal position on the events narrated, and that they are fully relia...
This chapter presents a study on the relation between the introduction of authorial voices in sci... more This chapter presents a study on the relation between the introduction of authorial voices in science popularization articles and the construction of the journalists' stance. Science popularizations are polyphonic texts which, similarly to other media genres, are typically constructed by relying on other voices apart from the journalist's. When an external voice is being introduced in the text, there is a transition area between the voice which was speaking so far and the new voice. In this chapter it is claimed that this transition area functions as an evaluative space which can be potentially used by journalists to include their own stance towards the information presented. In order to support and illustrate this, we present an analysis of some of the elements in the evaluative spaces which are found when journalists introduce authorized sources by means of direct speech constructions in popularizations in the British press. Our results show that journalists of these texts construct their stance by two different means, either overtly through the use of reporting verbs and evaluative expressions, or covertly by blurring the boundaries between their voices and the voices from experts.
Revista ES 31, Jan 1, 2010
Birkbeck Studies in Applied Linguistics 4, 2009
A corpus-based analysis was carried out with the aim of revealing dissimilarities in newspaper di... more A corpus-based analysis was carried out with the aim of revealing dissimilarities in newspaper discourse in Spanish and English which can both reflect and be due to differences in the use of cultural patterns. For this purpose, two small corpora consisting of the news articles covering an event of global importance were compiled. This event was the world food summit organized by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization and the corpora cover all the texts which were published on the opening day of the summit (3 June 2008). One corpus consists of all the articles appearing in the electronic version of El País newspaper and the other contains all the articles from the electronic version of the Guardian.
El Departamento de Filología Inglesa de la Universidad de Salamanca estudia el papel del periodis... more El Departamento de Filología Inglesa de la Universidad de Salamanca estudia el papel del periodista y la voz de investigadores y otros colectivos en artículos de la prensa británica relacionados con la ciencia
Aspects of discourse analysis (eds.: Alonso, Pilar / Sánchez, María Jesús / Hyde, John / Christopher Moran), 2002
Información del artículo A corpus-based analysis of reader positioning: Robert Mugabe as a patter... more Información del artículo A corpus-based analysis of reader positioning: Robert Mugabe as a pattern in the Guardian newspaper.
En esta comunicación presentamos los resultados preliminares de un análisis sobre la construcción... more En esta comunicación presentamos los resultados preliminares de un análisis sobre la construcción del discurso referido en los artículos de divulgación científica en cuatro lenguas diferentes.
Lingua, 2021
In the introduction to this special issue we consider the dynamics of language from three interre... more In the introduction to this special issue we consider the dynamics of language from three interrelated perspectives: ontogenesis, or the development of the language system in the individual; logogenesis, or the development of meanings in across texts and discourses; and phylogenesis, or the changes to individual language systems over
time. We discuss how these three methods of development are intrinsically connected, feeding into each other in such a way that they can be theorised as essentially different spatiotemporal perspectives on the same phenomenon. From there we pose three central questions for the modelling of change and contrast in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), summarised briefly as: How can the theoretical and descriptive
architecture of SFL be developed to account for the dynamics between these three genetic systems? How can we account for the expansion of the meaning potential of individual languages as a result of these processes? And to what extent are the fundamental categories of SFL adequate to the description of languages other than English and, hence, to the comparison of different languages? We then provide an overview of how the different papers in this special issue respond to these three
questions.
Corpus-Based Approaches to English …, Jan 1, 2010
Since Krashen put forward his Input Hypothesis in 1985, many language acquisition theories stress... more Since Krashen put forward his Input Hypothesis in 1985, many language acquisition theories stress the importance of input in L2 acquisition, especially its critical role in our understanding of how learners create linguistic systems (Van Patten 2003: 25). The kind of input that teachers of higher education courses consider for learners of English Studies at tertiary level includes texts dealing with literary or cultural aspects of the L2 which also show great variation in terms of topic, style or length. One of the strategies to minimize this ...
La interfaz semántica-cognición: mecanismos de construcción del significado y lagunas de conocimi... more La interfaz semántica-cognición: mecanismos de construcción del significado y lagunas de conocimiento especializado Izaskun ELORZA Universidad de Salamanca Como citar este artículo: ELORZA, Izaskun (2003) «La interfaz semántica-cognición: mecanismos de construcción del significado y lagunas de conocimiento especializado», en MUÑOZ MARTÍN, Ricardo [ed.]
[ES] Esta Language Learning Roundtable Conference se centra en 'La lingüística de corpus para el ... more [ES] Esta Language Learning Roundtable Conference se centra en 'La lingüística de corpus para el aprendizaje de la lengua en el Siglo XXI'y busca explorar cómo y hasta qué punto la lingüística de corpus ha impregnado el aprendizaje de las lenguas extranjeras o las segundas lenguas, con un especial hincapié en los contextos educativos españoles y latinoamericanos, tanto en términos de la descripción de la lengua nativa o extranjera, como del aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera (típicamente la lengua inglesa).
Applied Linguistics Now Recurso Electronico Understanding Language and Mind La Linguistica Aplicada Actual Comprendiendo El Lenguaje Y La Mente 2009 Isbn 978 84 692 1479 4 Pags 1373 1382, 2009
VIAL, Vigo international journal of applied …, Jan 1, 2003
Resumen: La observación de análisis descriptivos de muestras de lenguaje real nos indica un uso m... more Resumen: La observación de análisis descriptivos de muestras de lenguaje real nos indica un uso muy variado de unidades analíticas. No obstante, la utilización de diferentes unidades de tipo supraoracional dificulta la generalización de los resultados obtenidos en estos análisis, por lo que supone un impedimento para la investigación textual. En este artículo delimitamos los conceptos de las unidades analíticas más relevantes mediante las dicotomías,, y. De este modo, determinamos la naturaleza de este problema para poder ...
The 29th AESLA Conference was held on the 4-6 May 2011, under the title 'Empiricism and analytica... more The 29th AESLA Conference was held on the 4-6 May 2011, under the title 'Empiricism and analytical tools for 21st Century Applied Linguistics'. Its objective was to offer a venue for researchers in several fields of Applied Linguistics to debate on theoretical, methodological, empirical and analytical aspects as regards language description.
Libros álbum que desafían los estereotipos de género y el concepto de familia tradicional, 2020
Este capítulo presenta un análisis de la identidad y los rasgos de atribución de los protagonista... more Este capítulo presenta un análisis de la identidad y los rasgos de atribución de los protagonistas de cinco libros álbum infantiles en lengua inglesa. El análisis se centra en los recursos léxico-gramaticales y visuales (Halliday, 1985 y 2004; Kress y Van Leeuwen, 2001 y 2006; Painter, Martin y Unsworth, 2013) utilizados para representar experiencialmente a los personajes protagonistas masculinos con una identidad de género que no se corresponde con el estereotipo tradicional. Se han estudiado la estabilidad y el cambio de sus rasgos identificativos y atributivos a lo largo de las narraciones, como aspectos relacionados con la aceptación social de los protagonistas y su relevancia para una educación en valores de tolerancia y comprensión
de la diferencia.
The contrastive analysis of two sets of newspaper articles has been carried out in order to obser... more The contrastive analysis of two sets of newspaper articles has been carried out in order to observe how the reports of the same events are constructed in two different languages and cultures as represented by El País and The Guardian newspapers. The first set of texts consists of two science popularization articles dealing with the same scientific finding (Bee Texts), whereas the second set consists of all the articles covering the opening day of a world summit held in Rome (Summit Texts) which were published in the online versions of El País and The Guardian respectively. Newsworthiness (Bell, 1991), attribution and lexicogrammatical strategies have been studied in order to show how ideological construction has been developed in these two different kinds of report, one dealing with a non-controversial event (as represented in the Bee Texts) and the other with a controversial event (as represented in the Summit Texts).
Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics Conference 2009 2009 Pag 395, 2009
Lenguas Para Fines Especificos Vii Investigacion Y Ensenanza 2002 Isbn 84 8138 486 0 Pags 41 48, 2002
This paper discusses how different voices are constructed along the narration of scientific findi... more This paper discusses how different voices are constructed along the narration of scientific findings in the discourse of popularization articles from newspapers. Our main aim is to see if there is any relation between the construction and indexing (Clift 2006) of authorial stance, in this case defined as the writer’s expression of feelings and assessments concerning epistemic considerations, attitudes and style (Conrad and Biber 2000; Bednarek 2006) and the introduction of external sources of information. We rely on Chafe’s (1986) broad notion of evidentiality as the attitudes towards knowledge, considering that knowledge is “the basic information whose status is qualified in one way or another by markers of evidentiality” (Chafe 1986: 262). Readers’ expectations about how popularizations are constructed include the assumption that the journalists narrate scientific findings objectively, without expressing their personal position on the events narrated, and that they are fully relia...
This chapter presents a study on the relation between the introduction of authorial voices in sci... more This chapter presents a study on the relation between the introduction of authorial voices in science popularization articles and the construction of the journalists' stance. Science popularizations are polyphonic texts which, similarly to other media genres, are typically constructed by relying on other voices apart from the journalist's. When an external voice is being introduced in the text, there is a transition area between the voice which was speaking so far and the new voice. In this chapter it is claimed that this transition area functions as an evaluative space which can be potentially used by journalists to include their own stance towards the information presented. In order to support and illustrate this, we present an analysis of some of the elements in the evaluative spaces which are found when journalists introduce authorized sources by means of direct speech constructions in popularizations in the British press. Our results show that journalists of these texts construct their stance by two different means, either overtly through the use of reporting verbs and evaluative expressions, or covertly by blurring the boundaries between their voices and the voices from experts.
Revista ES 31, Jan 1, 2010
Birkbeck Studies in Applied Linguistics 4, 2009
A corpus-based analysis was carried out with the aim of revealing dissimilarities in newspaper di... more A corpus-based analysis was carried out with the aim of revealing dissimilarities in newspaper discourse in Spanish and English which can both reflect and be due to differences in the use of cultural patterns. For this purpose, two small corpora consisting of the news articles covering an event of global importance were compiled. This event was the world food summit organized by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization and the corpora cover all the texts which were published on the opening day of the summit (3 June 2008). One corpus consists of all the articles appearing in the electronic version of El País newspaper and the other contains all the articles from the electronic version of the Guardian.
El Departamento de Filología Inglesa de la Universidad de Salamanca estudia el papel del periodis... more El Departamento de Filología Inglesa de la Universidad de Salamanca estudia el papel del periodista y la voz de investigadores y otros colectivos en artículos de la prensa británica relacionados con la ciencia
Aspects of discourse analysis (eds.: Alonso, Pilar / Sánchez, María Jesús / Hyde, John / Christopher Moran), 2002
Información del artículo A corpus-based analysis of reader positioning: Robert Mugabe as a patter... more Información del artículo A corpus-based analysis of reader positioning: Robert Mugabe as a pattern in the Guardian newspaper.
En esta comunicación presentamos los resultados preliminares de un análisis sobre la construcción... more En esta comunicación presentamos los resultados preliminares de un análisis sobre la construcción del discurso referido en los artículos de divulgación científica en cuatro lenguas diferentes.
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Lenguas para fines …, Jan 1, 2002
Información del artículo Manifestaciones del contexto en el discurso publicitario.
Language and Intercultural Communication, Jan 1, 2008
This paper explores the potential usefulness of translation activities in the learning of intercu... more This paper explores the potential usefulness of translation activities in the learning of intercultural competence. First, the theoretical framework adopted and the problems involved in the use of translation activities for formative evaluation are discussed. Then, a pedagogic tool which implements the data provided by the students' translations is presented.
Empiricism and Analytical Tools For 21 Century Applied Linguistics Selected Papers from the Xxix International Conference of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics 2012 Isbn 978 84 9012 154 2 Pags 327 336, 2012
Actas Del Xxvii Congreso Internacional De Aedean Proceedings of the 27th International Aedean Conference 2004 Isbn 84 7455 103 X, 2004
Empiricism and Analytical Tools For 21 Century Applied Linguistics Selected Papers from the Xxix International Conference of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics 2012 Isbn 978 84 9012 154 2 Pags 327 336, 2012
In this paper we present an analysis of the popularization of the scientific finding that bees fr... more In this paper we present an analysis of the popularization of the scientific finding that bees from different species can communicate, which was revealed in June 2008, as it was made public in Spain and Great Britain and reported in the newspapers El País and The Guardian. The scientific report was published in a research article appearing in the open-access electronic scientific journal PLoS One (http://www. plosone. org). As Myers (1990: 142) posits, popularizing articles, such as the ones analysed, present “a sequential narrative of ...
Clina an Interdisciplinary Journal of Translation Interpreting and Intercultural Communication, May 20, 2015
Actas del XXVII Congreso Internacional de …, Jan 1, 2004
Información del artículo Desarrollar la competencia intercultural en lengua inglesa mediante las ... more Información del artículo Desarrollar la competencia intercultural en lengua inglesa mediante las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación.
… on Specialized Translation. Barcelona, March 2Á4, Jan 1, 2000
Domain-Specific English: Textual Practices Across …, Jan 1, 2002
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En este trabajo presentamos los primeros resultados del Proyecto tradotros: Enciclopedia crítica ... more En este trabajo presentamos los primeros resultados del Proyecto tradotros: Enciclopedia crítica de la comunicación intercultural (hum 2005-05066). El objetivo principal de este proyecto es la compilación de una base de datos multilingüe sobre terminología y conceptos en los campos interdisciplinarios de la comunicación intercultural y la traducción, en sus vertientes cognitiva, sociológica, antropológica, pragmalingüística, semiótica, traductológica y de teoría de la comunicación en general, que convergen en la comunicación intercultural. Se trata de una aproximación crítica, pues se evalúa el uso de los términos más representativos en estas áreas afines, proporcionando definición de conceptos, ejemplos de uso y equivalentes en español, inglés, francés, alemán, árabe y sueco, y próximamente en japonés. La base de datos consta en la actualidad de unos 4000 términos extraídos de un corpus representativo de unos 10 millones de palabras en cada lengua. Palabras clave: Base de datos multilingüe, comunicación intercultural, lingüística, traducción, traducción cultural, análisis de corpus. ABSTRACT This paper presents the first results of the research project tradotros: a Critical Encyclopaedia of Intercultural Communication Theory, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education (hum 2005-05066). the main objective of this project is the compilation of a multilingual database of terms and concepts in the interdisciplinary fields of intercultural communication and translation, from cognitive, sociological, anthropological, pragmalinguistic, semiotic, translatological and communicative perspectives, concurring all these fields in the common ground of intercultural communication. We have applied a critical
Guest Editors: Izaskun Elorza & Ovidi Carbonell Articles: Ideological features in the trans... more Guest Editors: Izaskun Elorza & Ovidi Carbonell
Articles:
Ideological features in the translation of alternative medicine texts (Reyes Albarrán Marín)
Mapping the cultural interference of term variation (Mª Luisa Carrió Pastor)
'Occupy Nigeria 2012': A critical analysis of Facebook posts in the fuel subsidy removal protests (Innocent Chiluwa)
The decalogue of legal translation -Contracts in intercultural legal communication (Alenka Kocbeck)
Towards a translation: Between, by Christine Brooke-Rose (Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte)
'Pensar la mezcla. Un relato intercultural' by Yolanda Onghena. Review by Icíar Alonso Araguás
Información del artículo Textos técnicos: de los conocimientos previos al conocimiento compartido... more Información del artículo Textos técnicos: de los conocimientos previos al conocimiento compartido en la enseñanza de ESP.
English For International and Intercultural Communication Research Innovation and Employability Across Educational Curricula 1st International Conference 3 4 June 2011 Faculty of Arts University of Zaragoza 2011 Isbn 978 84 15 27420 9 Pags 41 42, 2011
Estudios De Metodologia De La Lengua Inglesa Vol 1 2000 Isbn 84 8448 006 2 Pags 109 118, 2000
Experiencias De Innovacion Docente Universitaria I Congreso Internacional De Intercambio De Experiencias De Innovacion Docente Universitaria 2009 Isbn 978 84 7800 280 1 Pags 305 312, 2009
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Technological Ecosystem for Enhancing Multiculturality - TEEM '13, 2013
Realizado en la Facultad de Filología de Salamanca, por 5 profesores del centro, para las asignat... more Realizado en la Facultad de Filología de Salamanca, por 5 profesores del centro, para las asignaturas de Estudios Culturales Británicos y Estudios Culturales Norteamericanos. Su objetivo era asignar al estudiante y al profesor nuevos papeles de forma práctica y efectiva dentro del proceso de enseñanza aprendizaje de esas asignaturas. Logrando que el estudiante utilice los mecanismos a su alcance para construir una visión plural, contrastada, global y crítica de la cultura norteamericana y que los profesores involucrados en el proyecto utilicen los conocimientos necesarios para diseñar y llevar a cabo un proyecto educativo basado en la enseñanza y el aprendizaje en red mediante el uso de una plataforma virtual. Las páginas Web tienen enlaces a fuentes escritas y audiovisuales y hay Webquests con tareas de aprendizaje y listas de discusión. En cuanto a los resultados es necesario el reajuste de contenidos por sobrecarga y conviene aumentar el número de webquests, ya que los estudiante...
Internet in linguistics, translation and literary studies, 2003
LOs TRABAJOS ESCRITOS suelen ser empleados como un método de evaluación muy frecuente en el campo... more LOs TRABAJOS ESCRITOS suelen ser empleados como un método de evaluación muy frecuente en el campo de las humanidades en los estudios universitarios. Este tipo de evaluación tiene varios aspectos característicos, que habitualmente se suelen recoger en las normas de preparación del trabajo o las recomendaciones que se entregan a los estudiantes. En muchas instituciones universitarias donde este método de evaluación está ampliamente extendido, estas normas o guías de preparación de trabajos escritos suelen ...
English For International and Intercultural Communication Research Innovation and Employability Across Educational Curricula 1st International Conference 3 4 June 2011 Faculty of Arts University of Zaragoza 2011 Isbn 978 84 15 27420 9 Pags 15 16, 2011
Technology-Enhanced Language Learning for Specialized Domains provides an exploration of the late... more Technology-Enhanced Language Learning for Specialized Domains provides an exploration of the latest developments in technology-enhanced learning and the processing of languages for specific purposes. It combines theoretical and applied research from an interdisciplinary angle, covering general issues related to learning languages with computers, assessment, mobile-assisted language learning, the new language massive open online courses, corpus-based research and computer-assisted aspects of translation.
Información del artículo ESP course design: Identifying relevant words by means of corpus linguis... more Información del artículo ESP course design: Identifying relevant words by means of corpus linguistics methodology.
Información del artículo Verbs of saying and the teaching of reported speech in English.
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Technological Ecosystem for Enhancing Multiculturality - TEEM '13, 2013
ABSTRACT This article presents a proposal to increase the safety of students in the laboratory of... more ABSTRACT This article presents a proposal to increase the safety of students in the laboratory of Food Technology through the use of techniques of Augmented Reality.
Modos y formas de …, Jan 1, 2010
En esta comunicación presentamos los resultados de una prueba para la medición de "velocidad de l... more En esta comunicación presentamos los resultados de una prueba para la medición de "velocidad de lectura" realizada durante el curso 2007-2008 con una muestra de 204 estudiantes de Filología Hispánica de primer y tercer curso y de Filología Inglesa de segundo curso de la Universidad de Salamanca. Esta prueba se ha diseñado y llevado a cabo con el fin de poder obtener datos fiables sobre la velocidad de lectura de los estudiantes universitarios. El objetivo último era poder hacer estimaciones sobre la duración de las actividades de lectura que los estudiantes van a realizar como trabajo autónomo en la planificación de las asignaturas y de las guías didácticas de los nuevos planes de estudio. La prueba realizada ha medido la velocidad de lectura de textos literarios incluidos en los planes de estudios actuales y se han obtenido datos sobre la velocidad cuando los estudiantes leen textos en español y en inglés.
Atlantis Journal of the Spanish Association For Anglo American Studies, Dec 1, 2014
Atlantis
Multimodal analysis has received great attention in the last decade, partly due to the developmen... more Multimodal analysis has received great attention in the last decade, partly due to the development of new ways of analysing complex text forms (i.e., Dreyfus, Hood and Stenglin 2011; Machin and Mayr 2012; Unsworth 2008), and Th e Multimodal Analysis of Television Commercials adds to this wealth of studies at the adept hands of two discourse analysts with a long experience in the description of media discourse. As Pennock-Speck and del Saz-Rubio state in the introduction, this volume aims to provide readers with " food for thought " and to " spark new approaches to the analysis of television advertising " (14). In order to achieve this, eight contributions are presented in an attempt to account for " the exegesis and explanation of tv commercials from several diff erent cultures and from diff erent theoretical stances " (14). As the editors explain, the motivation for this volume comes from the fact that previous studies, especially those focusing on gen...
IBÉRICA, Jan 1, 2008
La tesis de Elorza Amorós parte de la paradoja de que, a pesar de que las actividades de traducci... more La tesis de Elorza Amorós parte de la paradoja de que, a pesar de que las actividades de traducción se utilizan en muchos cursos de Inglés para Fines Específicos (IFE), no se han analizado suficientemente cuáles son las funciones didácticas de la traducción en ese entorno. La autora pretende establecer un marco teórico que pueda aplicarse al IFE, en la consecución de objetivos como la autoevaluación y la evaluación formativa, al tiempo que contribuya a la inclusión de las tareas de traducción en la metodología de los cursos de esta disciplina.
RAEL: revista electrónica de lingüística …, Jan 1, 2009
From a systemic functional perspective, language is considered essentially a probabilistic system... more From a systemic functional perspective, language is considered essentially a probabilistic system. An important part of the meaning of any feature is its relative probability in relation to other mutually defining features and, therefore, language description is intimately related to the (un)expectedness of the behaviour, presence, absence, etc. of linguistic phenomena. However, globalization is dynamically pervading cultural and historical groups, identities and languages to an unprecedented extent and thus it is not surprising that cultural differences, hybridizing processes and diversity are challenging our knowledge and our expectations on the probability and extent of linguistic phenomena and their behaviour. Thus, by postioning linguistics at the crossroads, the conference invites participants to explore how cultural dynamics challenges linguistic description both in theory and practice from a variety of perspectives, including how paradigmatic choices are realized syntagmatically in different languages, how experience is construed in different settings, or how social roles and relations are enacted in culturally diverse situations, just to name a few. The conference also aims at addressing the question of how SFL is located at the crossroads between past and future in terms of the theoretical achievements and practical applications so far achieved and, therefore, it also invites proposals dealing with up-to-date theoretical constructs and practical applications from intra-and inter-disciplinary perspectives which show how SFL is at the cutting edge of linguistic description.
From a systemic functional perspective, language is considered essentially a probabilistic system... more From a systemic functional perspective, language is considered essentially a probabilistic system. An important part of the meaning of any feature is its relative probability in relation to other mutually defining features and, therefore, language description is intimately related to the (un)expectedness of the behaviour, presence, absence, etc. of linguistic phenomena. However, globalization is dynamically pervading cultural and historical groups, identities and languages to an unprecedented extent and thus it is not surprising that cultural differences, hybridizing processes and diversity are challenging our knowledge and our expectations on the probability and extent of linguistic phenomena and their behaviour. Thus, by postioning linguistics at the crossroads, the conference invites participants to explore how cultural dynamics challenges linguistic description both in theory and practice from a variety of perspectives, including how paradigmatic choices are realized syntagmatically in different languages, how experience is construed in different settings, or how social roles and relations are enacted in culturally diverse situations, just to name a few. The conference also aims at addressing the question of how SFL is located at the crossroads between past and future in terms of the theoretical achievements and practical applications so far achieved and, therefore, it also invites proposals dealing with up-to-date theoretical constructs and practical applications from intra-and inter-disciplinary perspectives which show how SFL is at the cutting edge of linguistic description.
Dentro del Grupo de Evaluación Educativa y Orientación (Ge2o), el equipo que trabaja en este proy... more Dentro del Grupo de Evaluación Educativa y Orientación (Ge2o), el equipo que trabaja en este proyecto está constituído por los siguientes miembros, bajo la dirección de María José Rodríguez Conde y dentro del contexto del
ILCEA
Research funding Development of disciplinary literacies in English as a lingua franca at universi... more Research funding Development of disciplinary literacies in English as a lingua franca at university-(LIDISELF)-PID2019-107451GB-I00. Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades. 1. Introduction 1 Language has been widely considered a key element in the performing and display of identities and in the construction of our individuality. According to Joseph, "[i]dentities are manifested in language as, first, the categories and labels that people attach to themselves and others to signal their belonging; second, as the indexed ways of speaking and through which they perform their belonging; and third, as the interpretations that others make of those indices" (2016: 19). Norton defines 'identity' as "how a person understands his or her relationship to the world, how that relationship is structured across time and space, and how the person understands possibilities for the future" (2013: 45).
Aula: Revista de Pedagogía de la Universidad de Salamanca, 2012
Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2003
When investigating descriptive analyses of real-world language samples we find a highly varied us... more When investigating descriptive analyses of real-world language samples we find a highly varied use of analytic units. However, the use of different units of a suprasentential order makes it difficult to generalize the results obtained in such analyses, which supposes a dilemma in text research. This article is an attempt at delimiting the most relevant analytic units, focusing on the dichotomies 'text/discourse', 'register/genre', theoretical unit/practical unit' and 'level/range'. The background of terms is analyzed with a view to find a series of rules which would fill the void of a missing singles analytic criterion. We also consider the practical environment of discourse in the areas of language for specific purposes and translation, where this problem frequently surfaces
Estudios de metodología de la lengua inglesa (V), 2010, ISBN 978-84-8448-531-5, págs. 433-440, 2010
Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 2011
This volume provides an exploration of the latest developments in Systemic Functional Linguistics... more This volume provides an exploration of the latest developments in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), an area of linguistics developed by Michael Halliday (1925-2018). Combining different aims and perspectives, chapters cover key issues on intercultural and contrastive aspects of language, and are organised in four thematic areas dealing with the description of self, identity, polyphony and alignment in discourse, with applications of SFL to education, with the analysis of theme and with the description of patterns, functions, modes and choice in discourse. The selection of papers, authored by international experts in the field, constitutes a representative panoply of the contributions presented at the 27th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference, which took place at the University of Salamanca (Spain) from June 29th to July 1st, 2017.
We are intercultural albeit unique: In the words of Cristina Sepsi Soare, «[m]an is a unity in di... more We are intercultural albeit unique: In the words of Cristina Sepsi Soare, «[m]an is a unity in diversity, a paradoxical creature» (2009, 745) because the myth of society as monocultural is «consistently denied by the dynamic realities of the development of political and socio-economic communities» (2009, 747) in such a way that it is the coexistence, cooperation and communication of different ethnic populations which produce positive mutual influences. These, as she contends, constitute «the premises of interculturality as a basic resource of social development of all ethnic communities involved» (ibid.). In her view,
Lingua, 2021
Abstract In the introduction to this special issue we consider the dynamics of language from thre... more Abstract In the introduction to this special issue we consider the dynamics of language from three interrelated perspectives: ontogenesis, or the development of the language system in the individual; logogenesis, or the development of meanings across texts and discourses; and phylogenesis, or the changes to individual language systems over time. We discuss how these three methods of development are intrinsically connected, feeding into each other in such a way that they can be theorised as essentially different spatiotemporal perspectives on the same phenomenon. From there we pose three central questions for the modelling of change and contrast in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), summarised briefly as: How can the theoretical and descriptive architecture of SFL be developed to account for the dynamics between these three genetic systems? How can we account for the expansion of the meaning potential of individual languages as a result of these processes? And to what extent are the fundamental categories of SFL adequate to the description of languages other than English and, hence, to the comparison of different languages? We then provide an overview of how the different papers in this special issue respond to these three questions.
Topics in Linguistics, 2014
The contrastive analysis of two sets of newspaper articles has been carried out in order to obser... more The contrastive analysis of two sets of newspaper articles has been carried out in order to observe how the reports of the same events are constructed in two different languages and cultures as represented by El País and The Guardian newspapers. The first set of texts consists of two science popularization articles dealing with the same scientific finding (Bee Texts), whereas the second set consists of all the articles covering the opening day of a world summit held in Rome (Summit Texts) which were published in the online versions of El País and The Guardian respectively. Newsworthiness (Bell, 1991), attribution and lexicogrammatical strategies have been studied in order to show how ideological construction has been developed in these two different kinds of report, one dealing with a non-controversial event (as represented in the Bee Texts) and the other with a controversial event (as represented in the Summit Texts).
Aspects of discourse analysis, 2002
... In general terms, all meaningful discourse seeks to convey information efficiently in the sam... more ... In general terms, all meaningful discourse seeks to convey information efficiently in the sameway as, generally ... 144 IZASKUN ELORZA-NELY IGLESI AS persuasiveness emotional suggestion infbrmativity reasoning !+/continuum persuasive/connotative advertising informative ...
[ES] Esta Language Learning Roundtable Conference se centra en 'La lingüística d... more [ES] Esta Language Learning Roundtable Conference se centra en 'La lingüística de corpus para el aprendizaje de la lengua en el Siglo XXI'y busca explorar cómo y hasta qué punto la lingüística de corpus ha impregnado el aprendizaje de las lenguas extranjeras o las segundas lenguas, con un especial hincapié en los contextos educativos españoles y latinoamericanos, tanto en términos de la descripción de la lengua nativa o extranjera, como del aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera (típicamente la lengua inglesa).
Revista Espanola De Linguistica Aplicada, 2013