Looking into international research groups’ digital discursive practices: Criteria and methodological steps taken towards the compilation of the EUROPRO digital corpus

Oliva, Daniel Pascual; Mur-Dueñas, Pilar; Sanz, Rosa Lorés

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“…It ensured that we could get in contact with potential informants close to us and which could provide us with valuable contextual information. This sample constitutes part of the EUROPROWebs (European Project Research website) Corpus compiled by the InterGedi group (Pascual et al, 2020). first, a navigating mode (Askehave & nielsen, 2005) was applied to analyse the content and different sections of the websites based on their communicative purpose, which led to the identification of two different types of digital texts and genres: "website-generated" and "web-hosted".…”

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Exploring researchers’ digital professional and discursive practices: A genre analysis of international research project websites

Mur-Dueñas

2023

Ibérica

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Academics’ professional and discursive practices are becoming more and more varied and demanding. It seems to be increasingly necessary to collaborate and network with international scholars and obtain funding from international institutions and not only to publish research results, but also to disseminate them globally. In this context, international research project websites play an important role and are a relevant object of analysis. Drawing on Genre Analysis this paper presents a text-based rhetorical analysis of a sample of 10 websites from European research projects within the H2020 program. Specific digital genres in the sample of research project websites are identified and labelled, and some genre relations established between these and other genres. A distinction is drawn between genres that are labelled “website-generated” and “website-hosted”. A move analysis of website-generated genres is then presented discerning specific moves and communicative functions bearing in mind the context in which these websites are created. Through the analysis, valuable insights are gained into international researchers’ professional and digital discursive practices in English and how these websites are used to gain visibility and promote the research groups’ self-branding by disseminating new knowledge, promoting their work and accounting for the funding received.

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Exploring researchers’ digital professional and discursive practices: A genre analysis of international research project websites

Mur-Dueñas

2023

Ibérica

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“…The study of digital practices through the compilation of corpora allows both quantitative and qualitative analyses at various levels (rhetorical, pragmatic and linguistic). The decontextualisation of texts and their features, which is a frequently criticised methodological aspect in corpus-based studies, can be overcome by the compilation of specialised ready-made corpora (Pascual, et al 2020), as is the case in some of the studies included in the present volume.…”

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Disseminating knowledge: the effects of digitalised academic discourse on language, genre and identity

Sanz

Diani

2021

European Journal of English Studies

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In this introduction to the special issue Disseminating knowledge: The effects of digitalised academic discourse in language, genre and identity, the authors discuss the impact that digital technologies and the Web have had on academia. They show how this attests to interrelations between new digital platforms of knowledge creation and dissemination and their use within discourse communities as elements of innovation and change in the shaping and reshaping of existing academic practices. The introduction also discusses the various methodological approaches that have been adopted with a view to investigating digital academic discourse. Exploring some current academic discoursal practices and their specific textual manifestations in the form of digitally-mediated genres, the authors highlight the complexities of the study of digital academic communication.

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“…For further information on the compilation of the corpus, the InterGedi research group website can be accessed: <http://intergedi.unizar.es/methodology/>, and seePascual et al (2020).…”

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Engagement markers in research project websites: Promoting interactivity and dialogicity

Mur-Dueñas

2021

Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

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Scholars are currently not only required to produce primary output, i.e. peer-reviewed research articles, chapters or books, which constitutes certified and legitimised knowledge (Puschmann 2015), but also to disseminate such output, which is frequently carried out digitally and in English. In this context it is the aim of this paper to gain insights into scholars’ digital discursive practices by analysing academic websites of research projects funded under the European H2020 programme. More specifically, it explores the ways in which a potentially wide, blurred audience is addressed by means of engagement markers, particularly, reader pronouns, questions, and directives, including imperatives, obligation modals and adjectival phrases expressing necessity. Results indicate that the frequency of use of engagement markers varies across websites and that it may affect their degree of potential interactivity. They further show that some engagement markers are more common than others and that they tend to display specific rhetorical purposes. Differences on their use and function when compared to their use in RA writing are also shown. It is concluded that these interpersonality features have an important role in the potential promotion of dialogicity in this digital medium, and crafting an effective professional identity of the research teams.

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Looking into international research groups’ digital discursive practices: Criteria and methodological steps taken towards the compilation of the EUROPRO digital corpus

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

Exploring researchers’ digital professional and discursive practices: A genre analysis of international research project websites

Exploring researchers’ digital professional and discursive practices: A genre analysis of international research project websites

Disseminating knowledge: the effects of digitalised academic discourse on language, genre and identity

Engagement markers in research project websites: Promoting interactivity and dialogicity

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