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Descortesía en las páginas de Facebook de festivales de música
2015
El presente artículo se centra en las interacciones que se desarrollan en Facebook (FB), el conocido sitio web de redes sociales que también es un recurso para la comunicación, y la promoción turística. Nos planteamos caracterizar este contexto sociocultural específico, que abarca comportamientos, actitudes y valores conocidos, aceptados y practicados en una comunidad discursiva, para luego describir el fenómeno de la descortesía en un corpus acotado de páginas de Facebook de festivales musicales, ofreciendo algunas reflexiones sobre sus características y sus funciones. This article focuses on interaction in Facebook (FB), as one of the best known and effective social media networks for mar…
Learners’ identifies at stake: Digital identity texts in the ELF classroom
2018
Author/s María Dolores García-Pastor GIEL – Universitat de València, Spain ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the study of identity in digital identity texts produced by English as a foreign language (EFL) learners within a specific subject of the Teacher in Primary Education (English) degree at a Spanish university. To this end, 51 digital identity texts were analysed following a “positioning perspective”, which views identity in terms of “reflexive” and “interactive” positions (Davies & Harré 1990). Results show that learners constructed non-unitary identities whose subject positions were often contradictory. They also associated certain positions with silencing identities, transition ident…
Teaching medical students online consultation: reframing the doctor-patient exchange
2017
After qualifying, doctors are expected to refine and develop professional knowledge and competences with a greater emphasis on the communication and consultation skills needed to create and maintain a good doctor-patient relationship. The ‘doctorability’, which is the act of legitimating the patient’s decision to seek medical care during the doctor-patient exchange, has been first studied by Heritage and Maynard (2006). However, the concept has been adapted to the new frames offered by the digital context and, as such, Stommel (2010) talks about the ‘forumability’, which refers to the users’ negotiations and legitimization within the group contributing to health fora. Using Digital Discours…