Engagement in Professional Genres
Edited by Carmen Sancho Guinda
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 301] 2019. xiv, 373 pp.
Carmen Sancho Guinda
List of John Benjamins publications for which Carmen Sancho Guinda plays a role.
Title
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semiotics
Articles
2019 Chapter 1. Networking engagement in professional practices: Towards an integrative view Engagement in Professional Genres, Sancho Guinda, Carmen (ed.), pp. 1–26 | Chapter
In this chapter I revisit the concept of metadiscursive engagement, track its major courses of research up to date, and discuss the interpersonal and discursive assumptions it entails. In light of these assumptions, I draw connections among the different contributions to this volume, present a… read more
2019 Chapter 14. Promoemotional science? Emotion and intersemiosis in graphical abstracts Emotion in Discourse, Mackenzie, J. Lachlan and Laura Alba-Juez (eds.), pp. 357–386 | Chapter
In this chapter I explore how the visual mode favors the expression of emotion in graphical abstracts, an academic genre increasingly demanded by high-impact scientific journals. My starting point is the set of expectations aroused by written scholarly discourse with regard to attitudinal… read more
2013 How patent can patents be? Exploring the impact of figurative language on the engineering patents genre Metaphor and Metonymy revisited beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: Recent developments and applications, Gonzálvez-García, Francisco, María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Lorena Pérez-Hernández (eds.), pp. 183–200 | Article
This paper examines the import of figurative language (specifically of conceptual and grammatical metaphors) in the discourse of engineering patents, a genre hardly researched for stylistic and pedagogical purposes and traditionally regarded as highly impersonal. To that end, a corpus of over 300… read more
2011 Integrating approaches to visual data commentary: An exploratory case study Researching Specialized Languages, Bhatia, Vijay, Purificación Sánchez and Pascual Pérez-Paredes (eds.), pp. 115–136 | Article
This paper highlights the need for explicit instruction in visual data commentary within ESP environments, positing its status as a multi-skill and cross-disciplinary practice. It reviews the state of the art in linguistic and didactic research and reports on a preliminary case study conducted at… read more
2011 How patent can patents be? Exploring the impact of figurative language on the engineering patents genre Metaphor and metonymy revisited beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: Recent developments and applications, Gonzálvez-García, Francisco, María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Lorena Pérez-Hernández (eds.), pp. 179–197 | Article
This paper examines the import of figurative language (specifically of conceptual and grammatical metaphors) in the discourse of engineering patents, a genre hardly researched for stylistic and pedagogical purposes and traditionally regarded as highly impersonal. To that end, a corpus of over 300… read more