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Predictive First-Principles Modeling of a Photosynthetic Antenna Protein: The Fenna–Matthews–Olson Complex

2020

High efficiency of light harvesting in photosynthetic pigment–protein complexes is governed by evolutionary-perfected protein-assisted tuning of individual pigment properties and interpigment interactions. Due to the large number of spectrally overlapping pigments in a typical photosynthetic complex, experimental methods often fail to unambiguously identify individual chromophore properties. Here, we report a first-principles-based modeling protocol capable of predicting properties of pigments in protein environment to a high precision. The technique was applied to successfully uncover electronic properties of the Fenna–Matthews–Olson (FMO) pigment–protein complex. Each of the three subunit…

CORTESÍA Y LENGUAS DE ESPECIALIDAD ENTRE LO LOCAL Y LO GLOBAL: EL CASO DE LAS RESEÑAS DE HOTELES EN ESPAÑOL E INGLÉS

2015

El presente trabajo analiza el género de la reseña de hoteles en español y en inglés para explorar la evolución de este género a raíz de su internacionalización. El análisis basado en corpus se realiza a través de una comparación monolingüe y bilingüe contrastiva, observando la distribución de estrategias de atenuación e intensificación (Briz, 2001; Albelda, 2007) de los adjetivos con carga semántica negativa en tres tipos de reseñas: reseñas en español publicadas en plataformas nacionales españolas, reseñas en español publicadas en plataformas internacionales, y reseñas en inglés publicadas en plataformas internacionales. Los resultados cuantitativos demuestran que la difusión global de es…

Book review: Jane Gravells, Semiotics and Verbal Texts: How the News Media Construct a Crisis

2018

Linking News Value Theory With Online Deliberation: How News Factors and Illustration Factors in News Articles Affect the Deliberative Quality of Use…

2018

Previous research suggests that distinct characteristics of news articles, such as their news factors, account for the different participation rates in comment sections as well as the degree of interactivity among the discussants. In this study, this assumption is tested in the Facebook environment and extended to the analysis of how news factors (i.e., event characteristics) and illustration factors (i.e., characteristics resulting from a specific journalistic editing) of news articles predict the inclusiveness of discussions, as well as the occurrence of civility, rationality, and deliberative interactivity in user comments. A content analysis of 619 news articles and 11,218 related user…

Reflexiones en torno al género boletín digital turístico: situación comunicativa y análisis lingüístico

2015

La newsletter es una estrategia de web marketing muy utilizada en la actualidad por empresas e instituciones de todo tipo. De hecho, se trata de un género nuevo y emergente de Internet (Shepherd y Watters, 1998: 98), cuyo principal propósito comunicativo es la persuasión directa de los suscriptores. En el presente estudio nos proponemos determinar las principales características de este género discursivo, utilizando como corpus de referencia las últimas 27 newsletter del portal Spain.info. The newsletter is a web marketing strategy currently used by most companies and institutions of all kinds. In fact, this is a novel genre of Internet, an emergent genre (Shepherd and Watters, 1998: 98), w…

Towards a pragma-linguistic framework for the study of sensationalism in news headlines

2013

This article sets out a framework for a language-oriented analysis of sensationalism in news media. Sensationalism is understood here as a discourse strategy of ‘packaging’ information in news headlines in such a way that news items are presented as more interesting, extraordinary and relevant than might be the case. Unlike previous content analyses of sensational coverage, this study demonstrates how sensationalism is instantiated through specific illocutions, semantic macrostructures, narrative formulas, evaluation parameters, and interpersonal and textual devices. Examples are drawn from a corpus of headlines of the ‘most read’ articles in the online outlet of the British mid-market tab…

Double intercultural dialogue in the Hispanic press in the United States: the case of New York newspapers

2015

Taking as a starting point research carried out in 2000 into the concept of Hispanic identity in Spanish-language newspapers in the city of New York, this article provides a diachronic analysis of these media over the period 2000–2012. In the first study, it was established that Spanish-language newspapers reflected an intercultural dialogue among different Latino groups, thus creating a pan-Hispanic identity. In this article we wish to go a step further and explore whether the Spanish-language newspapers may also reflect, and foster, a second level of intercultural dialogue between the Hispanic and the non-Hispanic communities. In order to carry out this research, a qualitative content ana…

Domestic violence and public participation in the media

2013

Recent research suggests that as a social public problem, domestic violence is sustained in a number of social contexts that naturalize violence against women through gendered discourses and ideologies of male violence. This paper examines domestic violence vis-à-vis public participation in the media. In doing so, it seeks to explore the social public aspects of domestic violence and to investigate whether the gendered discourse of male violence is also sustained through the new electronic spaces of public participation. To this end, a corpus of unsolicited digital comments – a form of ‘citizen journalism’ – to a British online newspaper was compiled and analysed. This paper draws from rese…

Book review: Criterial Features in L2 English: Specifying the Reference Levels of the Common European Framework

2015

Coercive metaphors in news headlines :a cognitive-pragmatic approach

2014

This article explores the application of metaphors in news headlines with a view to interrogating their potential for coercion. Coercion in news discourse is understood as a strategic deployment of pragma-linguistic devices, including metaphors, to foreground the representations of socio-political reality that are compatible with the interests of the news outlet rather than those that inform public debate. It is argued that coercion can be exposed through systematic discourse analysis. Methodologically, the study aims to integrate the cognitive and pragmatic approaches to metaphor in regarding it as both a conceptual building block of news representations and a strategic framing device in n…