Mercedes Díez-Prados

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Associate) at University of Alcalá

This study presents the results of research carried out to unveil how nonverbal paralinguistic signs are used in persuasive business communication in two parallel Spanish/British English corpora of TV entrepreneurial pitches. A specific analytic method has been developed to identify discrete nonverbal signs together with their function in the commu...

In this article we examine the identity construction of two politicians in the 2011 Spanish pre-electoral debate, following four of Bucholtz & Hall’s (2005) linguistic means: evaluation, implicatures, interactional negotiation, and complementary identity relations. For the analysis, Martin & White’s (2005) evaluation model and Corpus Linguistics ar...

The present chapter analyzes verbal and nonverbal engagement devices in four business pitches delivered by entrepreneurs in the British TV program Dragon's Den. Taken for granted their eminently persuasive character, the purpose is to analyze the expression of engagement in verbal and nonverbal signs aiming at convincing potential investors of the...

En este estudio se explora la función evaluativa del lenguaje desde el punto de vista de la expresión del "estatus"-es decir, cómo se presenta el mundo-y su potencial persuasivo en los debates preelectorales en Estados Unidos y España. Para ello, se contrastan los tipos de proposiciones utilizadas en dos corpus equivalentes en español e inglés para...

El discurs acadèmic es caracteritza per l’abundància de noms abstractes, com ara anàlisi, recerca, procés, concepte, aproximació o rol. Considerats mecanismes cohesius, atès que el seu significat discursiu es determina per referència al context en què apareixen, han rebut denominacions diverses en la bibliografia anglosaxona (anaphoric, signaling,...

This article examines how the Internet can be used to ease the process of writing by suggesting resources for the planning, writing and revising stages and how they can be used to carry out a writing task. One such resource is the Blackboard platform, which serves as a discussion tool and for teacher-to-student and student-to-student feedback. Base...

This volume offers readers interested in Discourse Analysis and/or Socio-Cognitive models of language a closer view of the relationship between discourse, cognition and society by disclosing how the cognitive mechanisms of discourse processing depend on shared knowledge and situated cognition. An inter- and multidisciplinary approach is proposed th...

The present study explores the language of evaluation in a sub-genre of political discourse, preelectoral debates, and its potential persuasive function for gaining voters via a contraposition of positive self-evaluation and negative evaluation of the other candidate. A further aim of this research is to check whether the candidate’s ideology has a...

The present study explores the language of evaluation in a sub-genre of political discourse, pre-electoral debates, and its potential persuasive function for gaining voters via a contraposition of positive self-evaluation and negative evaluation of the other candidate. A further aim of this research is to check whether the candidate’s ideology has...

The words we use are a gate into our mind and as such uncover patterns of thought including ideological ways of thinking. They also become necessary tools for mental processes, such as forming relationships and analogies, ordering, classifying and distinguishing (Arribas, 2003:1), and reflect our educational background. For (Arribas, 2003:4), the l...

Contact with the English language, especially from the 20th century onwards, has had as a consequence an increase in the number of words that are borrowed from English into Spanish. This process is particularly noticeable in Spanish for Specific Purposes, and, more specifically, in the case of Spanish computer language. Although sociocultural and l...

It is traditionally assumed that the influence of English upon Spanish is par- ticularly pervasive in the area of languages for specific purposes. In the case of the language of tourism it is more complicated than in other areas, as it covers several subfields, for example economics, history of art, marketing, sports, law, etc. We have carried out...

Resulta evidente que, además de a los procedimientos propios de una lengua para la formación de palabras, el lenguaje tecno-científico recurre a menudo a neo- logismos ingleses, al ser ésta la lengua de transmisión de cultura y conocimiento en gran parte del ámbito científico. Debido a ello, se suele considerar que la frecuen- cia de préstamos ingl...

Desde hace casi tres decadas, el concepto de estrategias de aprendizaje esta siendo centro de atencion en la investigacion y practica docente de las lenguas extranjeras. A pesar de ello, existe poca claridad en torno a ellas, lo que hace necesario un gran esfuerzo de investigacion y experimentacion docente. El presente volumen ofrece una coleccion...

Incluye anexos con textos, encuestas y análisis de armonía cohesiva y análisis tipológico de cohesión. Bibliografía [22] p. Estudiar textos escritos en inglés por hablantes no nativos para proporcionar, a los alumnos de inglés, las claves que les permita escribir textos en esta lengua con cohesión y coherencia, Estudiantes hispano-parlantes residen...