Digital Genres for Academic and Professional Communication Mapping Research and Practice

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

List of acronyms and abbreviations

Part I Theorising digital genres

Chapter 1. Digital genres in ESP: Theoretical and practical issues

Oana Maria Carciu and Rosana Villares

Chapter 2. Exploring digital genre analysis in LSP: A key thematic lemma-based approach

Alejandro Curado Fuentes

Part II Exploring digital genres in academic contexts

Chapter 3. Research results announcements online: Actors and genres in the processes of parallel knowledge entextualisation

Krystyna Warchał

Chapter 4. Digital journal submission invitations: Multimodality, discourse, and journals’ status

Tatyana Yakhontova

Chapter 5. Comparing the written and the video abstract: The impact of multimodality on metadiscourse choice

Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova

Chapter 6. A corpus-based multimodal analysis of Open Access dissertations: The impact of discipline and language

Flor de Lis González-Mujico and David Lasagabaster

Part III Exploring digital genres in professional contexts

Chapter 7. Digital emergency management posters in the context of pandemic communication

Francisco Miguel Ivorra-Pérez and Rosa Giménez-Moreno

Chapter 8. “Unsure of the next step in care”: A genre analysis of patients’ questions in digital medical consultations

Stevan Mijomanović

Chapter 9. Digital annual reports of financial institutions: An analysis of credibility and persuasion on a global scale

Sophia Kaltenecker

Chapter 10. Framing facilitation and causation in aircraft maintenance manuals: A case study of the A330 manual

Meng Ye, Eric Friginal, Malila Prado, and Daniela Terenzi

Chapter 11. The liminal language of promotion in dark tourism: A corpus-driven critical genre analysis methodology

Marian Alesón-Carbonell

Part IV Pedagogical applications of digital genres

Chapter 12. Fostering multimodal literacy using video highlights: A collaborative approach to pedagogy in EME and ESP settings

Nuria Edo-Marzá and Vicent Beltrán-Palanques

Chapter 13. From brochures to blogs: Opportunities and challenges in implementing a digital genre in English for tourism

Balbina Moncada-Comas and Irati Diert-Boté

Index

Biography

Oana Maria Carciu is Associate Professor at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. She is affiliated with the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), in the Digital Science Lab research line.

Rosana Villares is Assistant Professor of English for Specific Purposes at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. She is affiliated with the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), in the Digital Science Lab research line. She holds a PhD in English Studies, for which she received the Enrique Alcaraz Award, granted by the European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes (AELFE).

"It is an outstanding collection of insightful and engaging multiperspective accounts of digitally mediated genres from academic as well as professional practice. The edited volume brings together a diverse range of scholars from different disciplines and frameworks reflecting on and unfolding the complexities of disciplinary and professional actions. It is an innovative addition to genre studies with focus on digital media."

-Vijay K Bhatia, Adjunct Professor, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

 

"Emerging from the Digital Genres and Open Science project and the AELFE-LSPPC7 conference, this volume brings together current scholarship examining how digitally mediated forms are taken up in academic and professional settings. The collection places these contributions in relation to broader research and pedagogical conversations shaping work in this area."

- Christine Feak, Lecturer, University of Michigan, US