María José Luzón

• PhD
• Senior Lecturer at University of Zaragoza

Twitter is being increasingly used in academia as a tool for self-promotion, information sharing, networking and public outreach. To achieve these purposes scholars combine a variety of semiotic resources afforded by this social networking site. The aim of this study is to analyse the use of multimodal semiotic resources to express stance and engag...

This paper explores the forms and functions of intertextuality in academic tweets composed by research groups. Academic tweets are dialogic and intertextual texts, usually composed by incorporating other voices and taking up text-visual elements from other contexts. Based on the analysis of 300 tweets taken from the Twitter accounts of four researc...

Abstract Tweetorials, long Twitter threads to communicate complex concepts, are becoming increasingly popular among medical experts. While a few studies have analyzed tweetorials which serve to communicate scientific information to a general audience, no attention has been paid to how tweetorials are used to report on and publicize research and res...

The need to promote research and make it visible to various audiences has led to the emergence of various digital genres which seek to draw attention to research publications. Tweetorials, long Twitter threads to communicate complex concepts, are increasingly being used by medical researchers to report on and promote their own published articles an...

Social media such as Twitter enable scientists and science organisations to reach audiences beyond the scientific community and convey content in a way that is engaging for these audiences. Twitter has therefore become a powerful tool for scientific organisations to disseminate scientific knowledge and engage the public in societal action. However,...

This innovative book employs genre as a fruitful lens for exploring the complexity of science communication online and the new genre assemblages formed at the interface of multiple genres in digital environments. We argue for a conceptualization of Science 2.0 that views digital genres in conjunction with other genres, accounting for the ways in w...

The conference Digital Genres and Open Science focuses on the rapidly evolving repertoire of genres that support Open Science communication practices online. Specifically, it aims to be a space for reflection and analysis on the opportunities that digital genres offer to communicate science openly to various audiences and of the challenges that com...

This book presents an overview of the wide variety of digital genres used by researchers to produce and communicate knowledge, perform new identities and evaluate research outputs. It explores the role of digital genres in the repertoires of genres used by local communities of researchers to communicate both locally and globally, both with experts...

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a host of critical reflections about discourse practises dealing with public health issues. Situating crisis communication at the centre of societal and political debates about responses to the pandemic, this volume analyses the discursive strategies used in a variety of settings. Exploring how crisis discourse has...

This book illustrates the use of ethnography as an analytical approach to investigate academic writing, and provides critical insights into how academic writing research can benefit from the use of ethnographic methods. Throughout its six theoretical and practice-oriented studies, together with the introductory chapter, foreword and afterword, ethn...

In the last decades new technologies have been integrated in the communication practices of disciplinary communities and academics are increasingly using digital genres to conduct research, share their research data and outcomes, interact and discuss knowledge and information, and engage diverse audiences (including public audiences). Since digital...

Twitter has become a common feature of academic conferences, used by organizers to provide information about the conference and by attendees to engage in discussion about the conference topics, share information, and create social links and networks within the community. This study examines the tweets from two conferences in Applied Linguistics in...

Websites offer research groups a powerful tool for self-promotion and dissemination of their research to a diversified audience. The aim of this study is to explore how research groups affiliated to a research institution in a non-Anglophone country compose their websites to achieve visibility and impact and reach multiple audiences. Content analys...

This book examines the expanding world of genres on the Internet to understand issues of science communication today. The book explores how some traditional print genres have become digital, how some genres have evolved into new digital hybrids, and how and why new genres have emerged and are emerging in response to new rhetorical exigences and com...

This book examines the expanding world of genres on the Internet to understand issues of science communication today. The book explores how some traditional print genres have become digital, how some genres have evolved into new digital hybrids, and how and why new genres have emerged and are emerging in response to new rhetorical exigences and com...

The Internet provides researchers with tools to disseminate their research findings to different audiences and meet the information needs of various publics. One of these tools is online science videos, which can be addressed to audiences with different degrees of expertise and shared on various platforms. The current study analyzes a set of online...

Blogs provide an open space for research groups to publicise their research and activities, become more visible both to the local and international disciplinary communities, and conduct self-promotion. Research groups harness the affordances of the medium to weave a narrative about the group, presented through various modalities, and thus construct...

Blogs provide an open space for scholars to share information, communicate about their research, and reach a diversified audience. Posts in academic blogs are usually hybrid texts where various genres are connected and recontextualized; yet little research has examined how these genres function together to support scholars’ activity. The purpose of...

Travel blogs constitute a new platform where travelers can tell about their travel experiences and share information and impressions with their readers. Most travel blogs incorporate commenting capabilities, which enable social interaction among members of communities with shared traveling interests. English is most often used as a Lingua Franca, f...

One basic skill of academic writers is to be able to locate their claims within a disciplinary framework. However, undergraduate students find it difficult to integrate sources into their own writing successfully, which often results in inappropriate textual borrowing and poor referencing. The aim of the research reported here was to identify probl...

New media are having a significant impact on science communication, both on the way scientists communicate with peers and on the dissemination of science to the lay public. Science blogs, in particular, provide an open space for science communication, where a diverse audience (with different degrees of expertise) may have access to science informat...

Academic weblogs are sometimes used by scholars and interested public to engage in discussion about discipline-specific topics. The nature of the blog and its technological affordances affect the interaction taking place and the strategies used by the participants in the blog to negotiate interpersonal relations. The purpose of this paper is to exa...

The weblog incorporates technical capabilities which facilitate interaction and make it easy to exchange information and engage in discussion about controversial issues. This chapter presents a methodological framework to study how both allegiance and conflict are expressed and constructed in scientific controversies in science blogs. The study is...

Academic weblogs are a new form of scholarly communication which provides both a space for researchers to present their ideas, observations, and reactions to others work and a discussion forum. Although evaluation has been shown to play a prominent role in academic discourse, the function of this rhetorical device in academic blogs has not yet been...

This volume presents the latest research of an international group of scholars engaged in the analysis of academic discourse from a genre-oriented perspective. The area covered by this volume is a central one, as in the last few years important developments in research on academic discourse have not only concerned the more traditional genres, but,...

Professional and academic discourse is characterised by a specific phraseology, which usually poses problems for students. This paper investigates atypical verb+noun collocations in a corpus of English technical writing of Spanish students. I focus on the type of verbs that most frequently occurred in these awkward or questionable combinations and...

Professional and academic discourse is characterised by a specific phraseology, which usually poses problems for students. This paper investigates atypical verb+noun collocations in a corpus of English technical writing of Spanish students. I focus on the type of verbs that most frequently occurred in these awkward or questionable combinations and...

The purpose of this article is to analyse interaction in academic weblogs, focusing on discursive features that provide cues as to the participants’ interpersonal behaviour. The data for this study consisted of postings and their corresponding comments taken from 11 academic weblogs. The analysis of the corpus allowed us to work out a framework of...

Blogging is becoming increasingly popular among scholars, who see it as a helpful tool to promote their research to a broad audience and to engage in discussion about discipline-specific topics and more general (sometimes ideology-laden) issues. However, although academic weblogs share many technological and structural features, they are not a homo...

First person pronouns are a rhetorical strategy which allows researchers to perform different discourse functions in the text, through which they construct a convincing argument that persuades readers of the validity and novelty of their claims and of their own competence. In this paper I explore how Spanish EFL Engineering students use first perso...

Weblogs are gaining momentum as one of most versatile tools for online scholarly communication. Since academic weblogs tend to be used by scholars to position themselves in a disciplinary blogging community, links are essential to their construction. The aim of this article is to analyze the reasons for linking in academic weblogs and to determine...

Although scientific research has always been a social activity, in recent years the adoption of Internet-based communication tools by researchers (e.g., e-mail, electronic discussion boards, electronic mailing lists, videoconferencing, weblogs) has led to profound changes in social interaction and collaboration among them. Research suggests that In...

Although scientific research has always been a social activity, in recent years the adoption of Internet-based communication tools by researchers (e.g., e-mail, electronic discussion boards, electronic mailing lists, videoconferencing, weblogs) has led to profound changes in social interaction and collaboration among them. Research suggests that In...

Although scientific research has always been a social activity, in recent years the adoption of Internet- based communication tools by researchers (e.g., e-mail, electronic discussion boards, electronic mailing lists, videoconferencing, weblogs) has led to profound changes in social interaction and collaboration among them. Research suggests that I...

Although scientific research has always been a social activity, in recent years the adoption of Internet-based communication tools by researchers (e.g., e-mail, electronic discussion boards, electronic mailing lists, videoconferencing, weblogs) has led to profound changes in social interaction and collaboration among them. Research suggests that In...

Online scholarly journals have become an important tool for the generation of knowledge and the distribution and access to research. The purpose of this article is to analyze the features of online scholarly journals and to determine whether they incorporate new Internet-enabled features and functions which help to meet the needs of the members of...

The internet can promote learner autonomy if the technology is used to create learning environments where students can make their own choices, reflect on how they are learning and assess their own progress. However, when working in an online environment, students also need sufficient support to use resources and engage in a task. Providing the appr...

An increasing body of research relies on genre to analyze academic and professional communication and to describe how members of a community use language. The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of genre-based research in technical communication and to describe the different approaches to genre and to genre teaching. While some research fo...

Describes the benefits of a content-based approach to English for specific purposes, (ESP) examines how WebQuests can be integrated into a content-based ESP syllabus, analyze the different types of WebQuests suitable for ESP teaching, and discuses the limitations of this type of activity and the factors that should be considered when using WebQuest...

Novelty is a concept of great importance in the writing of a research paper, given that the author has to persuade the audience of the news value of the reported research, which makes it worth publishing. In this paper I use a corpus of computer science papers to investigate how novelty is created in this discipline. I analyse how the author uses e...

Each genre favours some linguistic structures and elements over others. The present paper reveals the usefulness of corpus-based analysis to discover the linguistic patterns selected and favoured by a specific genre. It analyzes the use of collocational frameworks, or discontinuous sequences of words, in a corpus of medical research papers and desc...

En las revistas especializadas en el campo de la infor-mática encontramos artículos sobre tecnología cuyo obje-tivo es proporcionar información que pueda ser útil a los lectores en el desarrollo de su actividad profesional. El objetivo de este artículo es caracterizar este género, al que llamaremos artículo de aplicación. Para ello asumi-mos que lo...

This article examines the communicative categories and linguistic features of university textbook prefaces. The textbook preface is a highly interactive genre, with a double purpose: informative and promotional. The analysis of the genre moves and of their realization reveals that the preface is used by the author both to help the audience use the...

El sistema inglés de pronombres personales carece de la distinción entre formas de segunda persona formales y familiares. Esta distinción está representada en español por la oposición entre "tú / vosotros" y "usted / ustedes". En "Por quién doblan las campanas" Hemingway recurre a la distinción que existía en Inglés Medio entre "thou" and "you" par...

Fail to belongs to a type of verbal structures which are in a syntactic construction with other verbs (e.g. fail to win) and which have meanings related to aspect or modality. In this paper we used the COBUILD corpus to analyse the discursive function of fail to and the meaning it adds to the verbal group where it occurs. The paper shows that with...

This paper reports a corpus-basad analysis of the discursive function of the auxiliary do in positive clauses. One of the basic principles of corpus analysis is that the meaning of a word or a structure is contextual. Since do occurs in the context of negation and repetition it has been analysed by focusing on the pragmatic function of these lingui...

Procedural vocabulary has been defined as a type of core vocabulary with low lexicality and high indexicality (Widdowson 1983 1984; Robinson 1989 1992). This paper analyzes the linguistic notion of procedural vocabulary and proposes that several vocabulary concepts described by different authors (e.g. Vocabulary 3, Anaphoric nouns) are part of this...

Todo discurso contiene señales que indican las relación entre sus partes y ayudan al lectora interpretar el texto. En este artículo se discuten carias taxonomías de señales léxicas y se presenta un modelo para la descripción de estas señales. Me baso en la teoría de los esquemas para analizar las señales léxicas en relación a la estructura retórica...

Over the past 15 years, corpus linguistics (CL) has emerged as an important area of applied linguistics research and it has been used for various purposes in applied linguistics. A good number of authors have devoted their research to the development of applied discourse analysis, lexicography, and language teaching (Biber et al., 1998), or to the...

In this paper we aim to analyse how language learning tasks can help students develop an autonomising wreading competence, i.e. a competence involving the ability to read online texts and to construct one’s own text by traversing sites. This competence involves different types of skills: technical skills of information elaboration and management, l...