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Ibé r ica

Revista de la asociación euRopea de lenguas paRa Fines especíFicos

JouRnal oF the euRopean association oF languages FoR speciFic puRposes

issn: 1139-7241 / e-issn: 2340-2784

directora/editor-in-chief:carmen pérez-llantada

(universidad de Zaragoza, spain) [email protected], [email protected]

directora ejecutiva/associate editorconcepción orna-Montesinos

(universidad de Zaragoza, spain)

ayudantes editoriales/editorial assistantsoana Maria carciu

diana giner

Dirección postal / Corresponding address: Carmen Pérez-LlantadaRevista Ibérica

Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filología Inglesa y Alemanac/ Pedro Cerbuna 1250009 ZARAGOZA SPAINTfno/Phone: +34 976 762 238

Dirección administrativa / Journal administration contact: Nuria Edo ([email protected])

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Desde 2011 Ibérica tiene el Sello de Calidad de RevistasCientíficas Españolas, otorgado por la Fundación Española parala Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT), organismo dependiente delMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación de España.

Since 2011 Ibérica holds the Quality Seal for Excellence ofscientific journals, awarded by the Spanish Foundation forScience and Technology (FECYT), a scientific body pertainingto the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

A.E.L.F.E.Asociación Europea de Lenguaspara Fines Específicos

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SUSCRIPCIÓN ANUAL / ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION: Individual 36 €Institucional 90 €

© Del texto: los autores© De la edición: AELFE

Depósito Legal: Z-40/99ISSN: 1139-7241 / e-ISSN: 2340-2784Impresión: Tórculo AG


DIRECTORA / EDITOR-IN-CHIEFCarmen Pérez-Llantada

DIRECTORA EJECUTIVA / ASSOCIATE EDITORConcepción Orna Montesinos

AYUDANTES EDITORIALES / EDITORIAL ASSISTANTSOana Maria Carciu

Diana Giner

COMITÉ DE REDACCIÓN / EDITORIAL BOARDMarta Aguilar (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

Elena Bárcena (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia)Mª Enriqueta Cortés (Universidad de Almería)

Mercedes Eurrutia (Universidad de Murcia)Amparo García-Carbonell (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)

Rosa Giménez (Universitat de València)Victoria Guillén (Universidad de Alicante)

Honesto Herrera (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)Maria Kuteeva (Stockholm University, Sweden)

Laura M. Muresan (Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania)Claus-Peter Neumann (Universidad de Zaragoza)

María Ángeles Orts (Universidad de Murcia)Juan Carlos Palmer (Universitat Jaume I)Ramón Plo (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Carmen Sancho (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)Chelo Vargas (Universidad de Alicante)

Marisol Velasco (Universidad de Valladolid)

COMITÉ CIENTÍFICO / INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARDCarol Berkenkotter (University of Minnesota, USA)Vijay K. Bhatia (City University, Hong Kong, China)M. Teresa Cabré (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

Maria Vittoria Calvi (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)Gibson R. Ferguson (University of Sheffield, UK)

Maurizio Gotti (Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy)Thomas N. Huckin (University of Utah, USA)

Ken Hyland (The University of Hong Kong, China)Chris Kennedy (University of Birmingham, UK)

Ricardo Mairal (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain)Françoise Salager-Meyer (Universidad de los Andes, Venezuela)

Mike Scott (Aston University, UK)John Skelton (University of Birmingham, UK)John M. Swales (University of Michigan, USA)

Sven Tarp (Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, Denmark)Bern Voss (Universität Dresden, Germany)


Ibérica es una revista bianual con revisión doble ciego por pares y

acceso abierto publicada por AELFE

Ibérica is a peer-reviewed open access journal

published biannually by AELFE

Incluida en las bases de datos, directorios y listados de indización siguientes /

Covered by the following databases, directories and index lists:

• Academic Journals Database

• Arts and Humanities Citation Index®

• BLL – Bibliography of Linguistic Literature. Bibliography of General

Linguistics and of English, German and Romance Linguistics

• Cabells’ Directory (Education)

• CARHUS Plus+

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• CIRC – Clasificación Integrada de Revistas Científicas

• Contents Pages in Education

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• DICE – Difusión y Calidad Editorial de las Revistas Españolas de

Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas

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• EBSCO Publishing (“Communication & Mass Media Complete”)

• ERIH – European Reference Index for the Humanities

• e-revist@s – Plataforma Open Access de Revistas Científicas Electrónicas

Españolas y Latinoamericanas

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• ISOC – Revistas de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades del CSIC

• Journal Citation Reports/ Social Sciences Edition

• LATINDEX – Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas

Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal

• Linguistics Abstracts Online

• LLBA – Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

• MIAR – Matriu d’Informació per a l’Avaluació de Revistes

• MLA International Bibliography

• MLA List of Periodicals

• REDALYC – Red de revistas científicas de América Latina y el Caribe,

España y Portugal

• RESH – Revistas Españolas de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas del CSIC

• SCOPUS

• Social Sciences Citation Index®

• Social Scisearch®

• The Linguist List

• Ulrich’s TM


índice / contents

editorial Carmen Pérez-Llantada (University of Zaragoza, Spain) ...................................................... 9

1. artículos de investigación / Research articles:

Revisiting metadiscourse: conceptual and methodological issues concerningsignalling nouns John Flowerdew (City University of Hong Kong, China)..................................................... 15

stance adverbials in research writing Matthew Peacock (City University of Hong Kong, China)................................................... 35

el género de la sentencia judicial: un análisis contrastivo del relato de hechosprobados en el orden civil y en el orden penal Raquel Taranilla (Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation, Qatar) ..................... 63

hugo chávez and the building of his self-image through metaphor Isabel Negro Alousque (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)............................... 83

popularizing biomedical information on an online health forum Patrizia Anesa (University of Bergamo, Italy) & Antoinette Fage-Butler (Aarhus University,Denmark) ........................................................................................................................................ 105

esp vocabulary and social networking: the case of twitterCarmen Pérez-Sabater & Begoña Montero-Fleta (Universitat Politècnica de València,Spain) .............................................................................................................................................. 129

Metaphorical scenarios in business science discourseBaramee Kheovichai (Silpakorn University, Thailand) ........................................................... 155

on the disciplinary and functional status of economic lexicography Sven Tarp (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa & Aarhus School of Business andSocial Sciences, Denmark) ............................................................................................................ 179

stance in ted talks: strategic use of subjective adjectives in onlinepopularisationGiuseppina Scotto di Carlo (Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Suor Orsola Benincasa',Italy) ................................................................................................................................................ 201

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2. Reseñas / Book Reviews:

Miguel Ángel campos pardillos Legal Translation in Context, Anabel Borja Albi & Fernando Prieto Ramos (eds) ..... 223

luz gil-salom Interpersonality in Legal Genres, Ruth Breeze, Maurizio Gotti & Carmen SanchoGuinda (eds)......................................................................... 227

inmaculada Fortanet gómez A Scholar’s Guide to Getting Published in English. CriticalChoices and Practical Strategies, Mary Jane Curry & Theresa Lillis..................................... 231

Juan carlos palmer silveira Corporate Discourse, Ruth Breeze.......................................................................... 234


Editorial

The editorial management of a scientific journal is a very rewarding task, butalso a very arduous one, as much time and effort needs to be devoted tomaintaining and improving the quality of the journal. The readers of thisjournal may know that Dr. Ana Bocanegra Valle stood down as the editor ofIbérica after two 4-year periods – the maximum span the journal statutesallow. I would like to express my gratitude to her for her interest anddedication in making Ibérica reach international visibility and high qualitystandards. The journal is covered by prestigious international and nationaldatabases, directories and index lists and was designated as “excellentscientific journal” and awarded a certificate and seal of excellence by theSpanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) in 2011. Thejournal renewed the seal of excellence in 2013.

This new spring issue attests not only the European dimension of thejournal but also its fully international dimension. It should be acknowledgedhere that the review process and the revision of the manuscripts compiledin the issue were entirely managed by the former editor, Dr. Bocanegra. Anew editorial team has taken over for Ibérica and found in Dr. Bocanegrainvaluable guidance in these first few months in which this new team hasbeen managing the editorial tasks. On behalf of the members of this team,I thank Dr. Bocanegra for her support and generous expertise. I would alsolike to express my gratitude to my colleagues in this team, Dr. ConcepciónOrna (Associate Editor) and Dr. Oana Maria Carciu and Dr. Diana Giner(Assistant Editors). All of them teach languages for academic andprofessional languages and they are all published authors in Ibérica. They veryreadily showed their willingness to collaborate in the editorial duties of thejournal when I asked them to join the team. My special thanks to the threeof them in this first issue for a successful accomplishment of all the editorialtasks.

This new issue contains 9 original research articles and 4 book reviews. Theselected articles provide testimony that the scope of the field of Languagesfor Specific Purposes is wide-ranging and relevant, both theoretically andpedagogically. As I briefly summarize below, the issue illustrates the wealthof research interests and approaches to the understanding of textual and

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contextual aspects of specialised discourses, corpus analysis research andLSP pedagogy.

The issue opens with an invited contribution by JOHN FLOwERDEw, fromCity University of Hong Kong. Flowerdew provides a very insightful criticaldiscussion on several metadiscourse frameworks that have been proposedfor the analysis of academic discourse. This author addresses someconceptual and methodological aspects of these frameworks and also takesthe case of signalling nouns to contend that this noun category might beincorporated into models of metadiscourse.

Following Flowerdew’s contribution, MATTHEw PEACOCK’s original articleshows how stance adverbials may play an important role in putting forwardclaims and propositions in academic prose. Peacock classifies stanceadverbials into two main categories, Limitation and Doubt and Certainty,and explains that both are much more prevalent than hitherto suspected inacademic writing. Of particular interest is the author’s claim that semanticpreference techniques may be a valuable method for corpus-based researchon stance in academic writing.

In-depth analysis and discussion on both textual and contextual aspects oflegal discourse is also illustrated in this issue. RAQUEL TARANILLA’s originalarticle offers careful examination of the differences between the narrativesof civil and criminal judgments, with the aim of contributing to thedescription of the Spanish judgment as a genre. The author focuses on thetextual features of the genre of court judgments and provides the readerwith an insightful comparison of how proven facts are narrated in a similarway in civil and criminal systems.

The original article by ISABEL NEGRO ALOUSQUE applies the cognitiveframework to illustrate, based on empirical data, the relevance of metaphorboth as a conceptual mechanism underlying political discourse and as anargumentative, ideological, evaluative and persuasive tool. The author offersa detailed textual analysis of the linguistic and conceptual metaphors ofChavez’s political speeches and demonstrates that these metaphors performpersuasively, playing a central role in the construction of Chávez’s self-imageas both a political and religious leader.

PATRIZIA ANESA and ANTOINETTE FAGE-BUTLER sensibly bring to theforefront the impact of the new technologies in the context of languages forspecialised communication. These authors focus on online health forums asa new form of doctor-patient communication. Their article analyses the

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types of dialogic and polylogic interactions that occur in this type ofcommunicative event. Adopting a discourse analytical approach, the authors’analysis illustrates how these forums may be popularizing biomedicalknowledge as they are no longer targeted at specialised audience but at adiversified audience.

CARMEN PÉREZ-SABATER and BEGOñA MONTERO-FLETA also address theimpact of the new technologies, though from the perspective of LSPteaching and learning. Their article describes a very original approach tothe use of Twitter for ESP teaching within the context of collaborativelearning and blended learning environments. The authors provide detailedexplanations of how Twitter can be incorporated into a structuredlanguage learning task. They assess the pedagogical advantages of awriting-to-learn activity on Twitter complemented with other activities ofthe ESP course.

BARAMEE KHEOVICHAI’s original article focuses on metaphor scenarios inbusiness discourse. The analysis of these scenarios is based on sound corpusevidence, thus providing a comprehensive basis for the search forexemplification. The article also makes significant additions to and contrastswith the relevant bibliography that the author reviews. Kheovichai’sapproach nicely demonstrates how cohesion is constructed in businessdiscourse, deriving from the co-occurrence of related lexical items of thesemantic fields in question.

The original article by SVEN TARP seeks to systematize, as the author states,the functions registered in economic dictionaries during the past 300 yearswith a view to presenting some suggestions for the immediate future ofonline dictionaries. Tarp provides a sound and fundamental reflection on thedisciplinary status of economic lexicography and concludes with sensiblerecommendations for the development of future dictionaries of economicsin view of the advent of e-lexicography.

The last original article included in this issue, by GIUSEPPINA SCOTTO DI

CARLO, looks into the discoursal use of axiological and non-axiologicaladjectives in online popularisations, namely TED (Technology,Entertainment, Design) talks. This author also draws on corpus evidence toexplain how the speakers express judgments and take up positions at atextual level by means of evaluative adjectives. This author’s article offersrich reflections on the popularization of scientific knowledge in onlinemultimedia genres.

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Besides these original research articles, this issue contains the reviews ofrelevant books for Ibérica’s target audience. The first review, by MIGUEL

ÁNGEL CAMPOS PARDILLOS, addresses innovative approaches to translationof legal texts (i.e. the volume Legal Translation in Context, edited by AnabelBorja Albi & Fernando Prieto Ramos).

The second review, by LUZ GIL-SALOM, provides insightful critical views ofissues of personality in legal genres (as discussed in Interpersonality in Legal

Genres, a collection of essays edited by Ruth Breeze, Maurizio Gotti &Carmen Sancho Guinda). The readers will also find INMACULADA FORTANET

GÓMEZ’s interesting review of Mary Jane Curry & Theresa Lillis’ A Scholar’s

Guide to Getting Published in English. Critical Choices and Practical Strategies, avolume which includes useful comments and insights into how to getresearch published in English-medium scientific journals. Corporate Discourse,by Ruth Breeze, reviewed by JUAN CARLOS PALMER SILVEIRA in this issue, isalso a very insightful reading for Ibérica’s audience.

Finally, on behalf of the former journal editor, I thank the members of theEditorial Board for their collaboration in the peer-review process of thearticles published in this issue. Their suggestions and thorough evaluationsof the manuscripts are a key pillar of the excellence of the journal. Thesehave been (in alphabetical order): Elena Bárcena (Universidad Nacional deEducación a Distancia), María Enriqueta Cortés (Universidad de Almería),Amparo García Carbonell (Universitat Politècnica de València), RosaGiménez (Universitat de València), Honesto Herrera (UniversidadComplutense de Madrid), Maria Kuteeva (Stockholm University, Sweden),Laura M. Muresan (Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania),María Ángeles Orts (Universidad de Murcia), Juan Carlos Palmer (UniversitatJaume I), Ramón Plo (Universidad de Zaragoza), Carmen Sancho(Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Chelo Vargas (Universidad de Alicante)and Michael white (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).

Also, I list below the invited external reviewers who have also generouslysupported the peer-review process during the past six months. On behalf ofthe former editor, I thank them for their detailed assessment of themanuscripts, as well as for their time and interest in Ibérica. They are, inalphabetical order:

Erdem Akbas (Erciyes University, Turkey)Pilar Alberola (Florida Universitària)Moisés Almela (Universidad de Murcia)

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Ismael Arinas (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)Karen Bennett (University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, Portugal)Daniele Besomi (University of Lausanne, France) Ana Bocanegra (Universidad de Cádiz)Ruth Breeze (Universidad de Navarra)Rosario Caballero (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha)Pascual Cantos (Universidad de Murcia)Beatriz Cendón (Universidad de Valladolid)Mª José Coperías (Universitat de València)Alejandro Curado (Universidad de Extremadura)Zsófija Demjén (The Open University, UK)Dacia Dressen-Hammouda (Université Blaise Pascal, France)Pedro Fuertes (Universidad de Valladolid)Víctor González (Universidad Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)Maurizio Gotti (University of Bergamo, Italy)Yongyan Li (University of Hong Kong, China)Carmen López Ferrero (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)Hilary Nesi (Coventry University, UK)Matthew Peacock (City University of Hong Kong, China)Anne Räsänen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)Miguel Ruiz (Universitat Jaume I)Sven Tarp (Aarhus University, Denmark)James wilson (University of Leeds, UK)Christopher williams (University of Foggia, Italy)Ian williams (Universidad de Cantabria)Joseph Zompetti (Illinois State University, US)

I hope that the readers find in this issue inspiring and relevant current trendsin the analysis of specialised discourses as well as innovative approaches tothe teaching/learning of specialised languages.

Carmen Pérez-Llantada

Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain)

[email protected]

Editor-in-chief of Ibérica

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