The Importance of Metadiscourse in the genre 'Promotion of Touristic Services and Products': Differences in English and Spanish.

Este trabajo intenta poner de relieve la importancia del metadiscurso, un aspecto del discurso crucial en la relación que establecen el emisor y el receptor de un texto en el género Promoción de Servicios y Productos Turísticos en inglés y español. También se pretende enfatizar la importancia de conocer este género discursivamente, aplicado a la enseñanza superior en lenguas para fines específicos. Este género es uno de los más frecuentes en la industria del turismo y necesita a menudo ser traducido o redactado respetando la adecuada imagen que se quiere promocionar o promover. Las implicaciones comerciales son evidentes, por lo cual es importante conocer las diferencias entre las dos lengu…

Agenda meetings : Topic progression in negotiating activity.

Rosana.Dolon@uv.es

The Traveller Fórum : An Advice-seeking Site Contributing to the Construction of Parental Social Actors and to On-line Parental Bond Creations

This paper studies how parental social actors and co-parental relationships are interactively constructed in traveller forums, analysing a corpus obtained from the London for Kids Trip Advisor forum, and carrying out a qualitative study of the interactants¿ uses of kids in their choice of transitivity patterns. Starting from a Critical Discourse Analytical methodological framework and from corpus-driven research, I address the question of how participants are endowed with authority and legitimation in parenting matters while engaged in this advice-seeking site. The results point at the emergence of inter-subjective role creations of parenting social actors, of instances of co-parental intru…

Multilingual dictionary of tourism = Diccionario multilingüe de turismo

Este recurso lexicográfico ha sido elaborado por el Grupo de investigación COMETVAL (Corpus Multilingüe de Turismo de la Universitat de València) http://www.uv.es/cometval/wikibase/cas/index.wiki). COMETVAL se crea en 2009 y desde entonces ha contado con ayudas de diversos organismos (Universitat de València, la Agencia Valenciana de Turismo y, en la actualidad, el Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad). Pertenecen a dicho grupo un importante número de investigadores de diferentes departamentos y universidades españolas (Universitat de València, Universitat Politècnica de València, Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir, Universitat Jaume I de Castellón y Universidad de Almer…

Linguistic Approaches to Negotiating Activity.

One of the main concerns we often share as teachers and applied linguists, is how to approach certain conversational activities both as to what refers to their linguistic characterization and as to what concerns the pedagogic side of the teaching/learning of the activity at issue. What is established then at the outset is an existing link between language description and implementation of method(s). The study of negotiating activity is one such example, where the linguistic approach has undergone a series of shifts, which have largely influenced the learning/teaching approach to this conversational genre. It is our purpose in this article to review the processes that studies into negotiatin…

Análisis del discurso : competencia discursiva en ámbitos profesionales: el contexto de la empresa

Esta monografía analiza las funciones lingüísticas más frecuentes y su realización en textos de economía y empresa en inglés a partir del análisis del discurso. This work analizes the most common linguistic functions in a series of business and economics texts as well as how they are materialized through language in English.

Representational choices of social actors in letters of application

The evaluation of status in Boris Johnson's political speeches.

This study compares two seminal speeches given by Boris Johnson in the context of Brexit. The first is from 2018 during his tenure as Foreign Secretary, and the second from 2020, by which time he had become Prime Minister. The transcripts of the two complete speeches together constitute a corpus of 7,270 words. The current study applies Hunston's (2000, 2008, 2011) model of evaluation as a means of testing Johnson's attitude towards the propositions he develops through his political oratory. Using the concepts of evaluation of status and value, this model allows us to identify Johnson's degree of alignment with his representation of the world, and to perceive an ideological component in his…

What is critical discourse analysis?

Theresa May’s Representation of Reality in her Brexit Speeches

This study analyses Theresa May’s three seminal Brexit speeches. These describe the kind of desirable post-Brexit EU-UK relationship that she envisioned, and together constitute a corpus of 18,532 words. The speeches can be considered as landmarks on a timeline that was initially meant to lead to the delivery of Brexit. It is hypothesized that there may be meaningful differences between the speeches, and that these affect the representation of reality. These in turn would have a bearing on May’s discursive self-representation as either an individualized or a collectivized social actor. To account for such representational values, the study draws on Halliday’s Transitivity System (1994), sta…

Theresa May's Representation of Reality in her Brexit Speeches

This study analyses Theresa May's three seminal Brexit speeches. These describe the kind of desirable post-Brexit EU-UK relationship that she envisioned, and together constitute a corpus of 18,532 words. The speeches can be considered as landmarks on a timeline that was initially meant to lead to the delivery of Brexit. It is hypothesized that there may be meaningful differences between the speeches, and that these affect the representation of reality. These in turn would have a bearing on May's discursive self-representation as either an individualized or a collectivized social actor. To account for such representational values, the study draws on Halliday's Transitivity System (1994), sta…

A Corpus Study of Ideology-Driven Discourse Practice: The University Language Learner as Researcher. The Case of Prepositions

It is widely acknowledged that both language learners and teachers have benefitted in many ways from the implementation of ICTs in and outside the classroom, and continue to do so. The range of skills that students, as future professionals, are required to master has risen exponentially in recent times, partly as a result of these technological developments. The implementation of ICTs has been coupled with a focus in higher education on exploring new ways of encouraging creativity in teaching and learner autonomy, both areas having gained ground recently in teaching practices (Weimer 2002). In this context, open-minded instructors should accept ICTs not just as simple gadgets, blindly adapt…

El metadiscurso en la traducción de textos performativos

Esta comunicación pone de relieve la importancia del metadiscurso, un aspecto del discurso que es crucial en la relación del emisor y receptor en los textos performativos y en particular en el género Promoción de Servicios y Productos Turísticos. Este género es uno de los más frecuentes tipos de texto que circulan en la industria turística y una buena traducción proporciona una imagen positiva o negativa del producto o servicio que se promociona y por tanto tiene el poder de influir en el éxito o fracaso de esta transacción comercial. Se describen y argumentan en esta comunicación las diferencias metadiscursivas y genéricas en español e inglés con el propósito de concienciar sobre las carac…