Elena Domínguez Romero
Biographic Data
| ID | 1021187 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elena Domínguez Romero |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elena Domínguez |
| FAMILY NAME | Romero |
| SIGNATURE | ROMERO E D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8128-2131 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Epistemic, emotional, and effective stance strategies for the linguistic articulation of visual critical thinking in interculturally responsive EFL instruction
Addresses the EFL “articulation gap” by operationalising visual/critical thinking as teachable linguistic stance. • Integrates explicit stance pedagogy, Visual Thinking Routines, and interculturally responsive, justice-oriented teaching. • Models stance through a tripartite lens — epistemic, emotional, and effective. • Introduces two design principles — force calibration and iterative de-centring — to align evidential warrant, affect mobilisation…
Epistemic and effective stances: A conceptualisation and annotation system for discourse on socially relevant issues
This paper advances an illocutionary-pragmatic conceptualisation of epistemic and effective stance and presents an annotation system for their analysis in discourse on socially relevant issues. Epistemic stance is defined as a speaker’s or writer’s attempt to shape addressees’ understanding of the world, by providing justificatory support for the validity of communicated information through representative speech acts, and is typically realised th…
‘The affective civic turn’ in critical literacy education: Video-based Critical Affective Civic Literacy practices in a pre-service teacher training workshop
This study addresses a critical gap in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) pre-service teacher education: the need for structured training in critical affective civic literacy (CACL) to equip future educators to navigate the challenges of heightened immigration and political polarisation. Focusing on a cohort of 49 pre-service EFL teachers in Madrid, this research assesses their baseline empathy (both general and specific towards irregular immigr…
Between Support and Reactance: Epistemic and Effective Stance-Taking in Polarised Digital Public Responses to Reclamation Discourse
This mixed-methods case study examines polarisation and discursive stance-taking in digital reader responses to the 2021 concert poster for Spanish singer Zahara. The image, depicting Zahara in Marian iconography wearing a sash bearing a reclaimed slur, sparked nationwide controversy at the intersection of artistic freedom, religious symbolism, and feminist reclamation. Although online polarisation is well documented, the linguistic mechanisms by…
Tech-Enhanced Vocabulary Acquisition: Exploring the Use of Student-Created Video Learning Materials in the Tertiary-Level EFL (English as a Foreign Language) Flipped Classroom
This study explores the effectiveness of Technology-Assisted Vocabulary Learning (TAVL) using student-created video learning materials within a tertiary-level English as a Foreign Language (EFL) flipped classroom. By leveraging the flipped classroom model, which allocates classroom time for interactive activities and shifts instructional content delivery outside of class, the research investigates how student-produced videos can enhance vocabular…
Exploring the Use of Epistemic and Effective Stance Strategies in the EFL Classroom: Evidence From Reflective Writing
This study investigates the epistemic and effective stance strategies employed by EFL learners in reflective essays documenting their remote learning experiences. Drawing on a corpus of 298 essays, the research elucidates how students articulate their perceptions of remote learning, with particular attention to variations across gender and academic performance. Adopting a triangulated analytical approach, we examined the same set of written compo…
Effective Stance in Conservative Newspaper Opinion Articles on Irregular Immigration and Refugee Humanitarian Crises
This paper presents a quantitative and contrastive analysis of expressions of effective stance in conservative newspaper opinion articles related to irregular immigration and humanitarian crises involving refugees in both English and Spanish contexts. Drawing upon the seminal works of Langacker (2013) and Marín-Arrese (2021a, 2021b, 2023), the study examines six fundamental categories of effective stance expressions established according to facto…
Ver-Based Evidential Re/Positioning Strategies in Conservative Digital Newspaper Readers’ Comments on Controversial Immigration Policies in Spanish
The emergence of political polarization in Europe has intensified divisions among citizens regarding immigration, inequality, and racism. The present paper investigates the use of ver-based (“see”-based) evidentiality in positioning and repositioning strategies by conservative Spanish readers of the digital newspapers ABC and La Razón. The study focuses on their responses to two different controversial measures involving immigrants and refugees t…
Kinesic communication in traditional and digital contexts: An exploratory study of ESP undergraduate students
Effective communication skills are crucial to succeed in many aspects of our personal and professional lives. Non-verbal communication plays a significant role in this success, affecting verbal communication and enhancing fluency. Gestures, facial expressions and eye-gaze function as non-verbal means to control and organize conversations (Jokinen, 2009). The present paper aims to address the existing gap in developing English for Specific Purpose…
Reportive evidentiality. A perception-based complement approach to digital discourse in Spanish and English
Literature and language education: Exploring teachers’ views on teaching foreign language through literature in bilingual secondary schools in Madrid (Spain)
This study explores the perceptions of English language teachers of the use of literature in the context of bilingual secondary education in the region of Madrid (Spain). An approach was adopted under which eighty-one English teacher participants completed a questionnaire so that a quantitative methodological approach of a descriptive – correlational nature could be adopted for this study. Results unveiled teacher perceptions of the benefits and …
Reframing (inner) terror: A digital discourse-based approach to evidential repositioning of reader reactions towards visual reframing
The present article claims that the British public opinion’s repositioning towards inner terror after the 2017 Westminster attacks was (i) affected by the visual reframing of an original viral press photograph of the attacks targeting a Muslim passerby as an inner terrorist and (ii) linguistically expressed through the use of ‘look’ object-oriented visual markers of evidentiality in written digital discourse. To support this claim, British reader…
Epistemic and non-epistemic modals: The key to interpreting the spirit of counter-terrorism United Nations Security Council resolutions
A modality-based approach to the United Nations Security Council’s ambiguous positioning in the resolutions on the Syrian armed conflict
This paper examines the role of deontic and epistemic central modality as a discursive strategy to express vagueness in the United Nations Security Council Resolutions on the Syrian armed conflict. The paper follows a corpus-based methodology with a two-fold objective: (i) identification, quantification and analysis of the central modal verbs retrieved from the resolutions, and (ii) the description of the communicative functions performed by thes…
A percept/concept/ual approach to stereotype reading in Fowles’ Lieutenant’s Woman
This paper aims to decipher the character of Sarah in John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969, translated by Fowles into English in 1977 and revised in 1994). Our analysis draws on the Grammar of Visual Designs developed by Gunther Kress and Theo Van Leeuwen in 2006 linked to the concept of stereotyping as social arrangements which may vary from society to society as much as on the Theory of Blended Spaces defended by Fauconnier and Turn…
The Butt Remix: Beauty, Pop Culture, Hip Hop, and the Commodification of the Black Booty
Research Article| October 01 2017 The Butt Remix: Beauty, Pop Culture, Hip Hop, and the Commodification of the Black Booty Elena Romero Elena Romero Elena Romero, a former editor at Women’s Wear Daily and the defunct Daily News Record, is an adjunct assistant professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology and at The City College of New York Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education. She is the author of Free Styli…
Evidentiality and Modality in European Languages: Discourse-Pragmatic Perspectives
This paper investigates modals in Linguistics and Engineering research articles. The study has two main objectives. The first one concerns the identification and categorization of modals used in research articles written in English by native speakers. The second objective is of a contrastive nature. We are much interested in measuring the use and function of modals according to register. For this study, we focus on material traditionally categori…
Humanizing brands through story-telling in magazine advertising
Within the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory, where metaphor allows human beings to map structure from concrete realms of experience (based on sensory-motor experience) to other more abstract domains, the Source-Path-Goal schema stands as one of the central concepts in human conceptualization. Its importance lies in the way it unifies and gives structure to concepts of motion. In turn, this embodied notion shapes our understanding of a purp…
Male vs. Female / Mind vs. Body: A Cognitive Discourse Approach to Two Plays by Shakespeare
The aim of the present paper is twofold: i) to show that the idea of a “savage mind” does not make sense unless accompanied by that of a wrong restraining body which needs to be broken to let the so-called “savage mind” out, and vice versa and ii) to prove this relieving process to be ultimately affected by gender. While women seem to need to resort to a third party body disguise in order to show their real selves out of their constraining bodies…
Critical and Autobiographical Elements in Álvaro Cunqueiro’s Shakespearean Adaptations in Galicia
Translations, adaptations and reception of William Shakespeare and his works in many literary systems have been successfully analysed over the past two decades. However, there are still peripheral communities such as Galicia that refuse to review the role played by the English bard in the reconfiguration of their literary tradition in the twentieth century. In this article, we will examine the role of two Shakespearean adaptations written by Álva…
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Ver-Based Evidential Re/Positioning Strategies in Conservative Digital Newspaper Readers’ Comments on Controversial Immigration Policies in Spanish
The emergence of political polarization in Europe has intensified divisions among citizens regarding immigration, inequality, and racism. The present paper investigates the use of ver-based (“see”-based) evidentiality in positioning and repositioning strategies by conservative Spanish readers of the digital newspapers ABC and La Razón. The study focuses on their responses to two different controversial measures involving immigrants and refugees t…
A modality-based approach to the United Nations Security Council’s ambiguous positioning in the resolutions on the Syrian armed conflict
This paper examines the role of deontic and epistemic central modality as a discursive strategy to express vagueness in the United Nations Security Council Resolutions on the Syrian armed conflict. The paper follows a corpus-based methodology with a two-fold objective: (i) identification, quantification and analysis of the central modal verbs retrieved from the resolutions, and (ii) the description of the communicative functions performed by thes…
Kinesic communication in traditional and digital contexts: An exploratory study of ESP undergraduate students
Effective communication skills are crucial to succeed in many aspects of our personal and professional lives. Non-verbal communication plays a significant role in this success, affecting verbal communication and enhancing fluency. Gestures, facial expressions and eye-gaze function as non-verbal means to control and organize conversations (Jokinen, 2009). The present paper aims to address the existing gap in developing English for Specific Purpose…
Reportive evidentiality. A perception-based complement approach to digital discourse in Spanish and English
Reframing (inner) terror: A digital discourse-based approach to evidential repositioning of reader reactions towards visual reframing
The present article claims that the British public opinion’s repositioning towards inner terror after the 2017 Westminster attacks was (i) affected by the visual reframing of an original viral press photograph of the attacks targeting a Muslim passerby as an inner terrorist and (ii) linguistically expressed through the use of ‘look’ object-oriented visual markers of evidentiality in written digital discourse. To support this claim, British reader…
Epistemic and non-epistemic modals: The key to interpreting the spirit of counter-terrorism United Nations Security Council resolutions
Cancionero sefardi
Cancionero sefardi
Critical and Autobiographical Elements in Álvaro Cunqueiro’s Shakespearean Adaptations in Galicia
Translations, adaptations and reception of William Shakespeare and his works in many literary systems have been successfully analysed over the past two decades. However, there are still peripheral communities such as Galicia that refuse to review the role played by the English bard in the reconfiguration of their literary tradition in the twentieth century. In this article, we will examine the role of two Shakespearean adaptations written by Álva…
Male vs. Female / Mind vs. Body: A Cognitive Discourse Approach to Two Plays by Shakespeare
The aim of the present paper is twofold: i) to show that the idea of a “savage mind” does not make sense unless accompanied by that of a wrong restraining body which needs to be broken to let the so-called “savage mind” out, and vice versa and ii) to prove this relieving process to be ultimately affected by gender. While women seem to need to resort to a third party body disguise in order to show their real selves out of their constraining bodies…
Evidentiality and Modality in European Languages: Discourse-Pragmatic Perspectives
This paper investigates modals in Linguistics and Engineering research articles. The study has two main objectives. The first one concerns the identification and categorization of modals used in research articles written in English by native speakers. The second objective is of a contrastive nature. We are much interested in measuring the use and function of modals according to register. For this study, we focus on material traditionally categori…
Humanizing brands through story-telling in magazine advertising
Within the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory, where metaphor allows human beings to map structure from concrete realms of experience (based on sensory-motor experience) to other more abstract domains, the Source-Path-Goal schema stands as one of the central concepts in human conceptualization. Its importance lies in the way it unifies and gives structure to concepts of motion. In turn, this embodied notion shapes our understanding of a purp…
A percept/concept/ual approach to stereotype reading in Fowles’ Lieutenant’s Woman
This paper aims to decipher the character of Sarah in John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969, translated by Fowles into English in 1977 and revised in 1994). Our analysis draws on the Grammar of Visual Designs developed by Gunther Kress and Theo Van Leeuwen in 2006 linked to the concept of stereotyping as social arrangements which may vary from society to society as much as on the Theory of Blended Spaces defended by Fauconnier and Turn…
The Butt Remix: Beauty, Pop Culture, Hip Hop, and the Commodification of the Black Booty
Research Article| October 01 2017 The Butt Remix: Beauty, Pop Culture, Hip Hop, and the Commodification of the Black Booty Elena Romero Elena Romero Elena Romero, a former editor at Women’s Wear Daily and the defunct Daily News Record, is an adjunct assistant professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology and at The City College of New York Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education. She is the author of Free Styli…
A modality-based approach to the United Nations Security Council’s ambiguous positioning in the resolutions on the Syrian armed conflict
This paper examines the role of deontic and epistemic central modality as a discursive strategy to express vagueness in the United Nations Security Council Resolutions on the Syrian armed conflict. The paper follows a corpus-based methodology with a two-fold objective: (i) identification, quantification and analysis of the central modal verbs retrieved from the resolutions, and (ii) the description of the communicative functions performed by thes…
Literature and language education: Exploring teachers’ views on teaching foreign language through literature in bilingual secondary schools in Madrid (Spain)
This study explores the perceptions of English language teachers of the use of literature in the context of bilingual secondary education in the region of Madrid (Spain). An approach was adopted under which eighty-one English teacher participants completed a questionnaire so that a quantitative methodological approach of a descriptive – correlational nature could be adopted for this study. Results unveiled teacher perceptions of the benefits and …
Reframing (inner) terror: A digital discourse-based approach to evidential repositioning of reader reactions towards visual reframing
The present article claims that the British public opinion’s repositioning towards inner terror after the 2017 Westminster attacks was (i) affected by the visual reframing of an original viral press photograph of the attacks targeting a Muslim passerby as an inner terrorist and (ii) linguistically expressed through the use of ‘look’ object-oriented visual markers of evidentiality in written digital discourse. To support this claim, British reader…
Epistemic and non-epistemic modals: The key to interpreting the spirit of counter-terrorism United Nations Security Council resolutions
Reportive evidentiality. A perception-based complement approach to digital discourse in Spanish and English
Ver-Based Evidential Re/Positioning Strategies in Conservative Digital Newspaper Readers’ Comments on Controversial Immigration Policies in Spanish
The emergence of political polarization in Europe has intensified divisions among citizens regarding immigration, inequality, and racism. The present paper investigates the use of ver-based (“see”-based) evidentiality in positioning and repositioning strategies by conservative Spanish readers of the digital newspapers ABC and La Razón. The study focuses on their responses to two different controversial measures involving immigrants and refugees t…
Kinesic communication in traditional and digital contexts: An exploratory study of ESP undergraduate students
Effective communication skills are crucial to succeed in many aspects of our personal and professional lives. Non-verbal communication plays a significant role in this success, affecting verbal communication and enhancing fluency. Gestures, facial expressions and eye-gaze function as non-verbal means to control and organize conversations (Jokinen, 2009). The present paper aims to address the existing gap in developing English for Specific Purpose…
Effective Stance in Conservative Newspaper Opinion Articles on Irregular Immigration and Refugee Humanitarian Crises
This paper presents a quantitative and contrastive analysis of expressions of effective stance in conservative newspaper opinion articles related to irregular immigration and humanitarian crises involving refugees in both English and Spanish contexts. Drawing upon the seminal works of Langacker (2013) and Marín-Arrese (2021a, 2021b, 2023), the study examines six fundamental categories of effective stance expressions established according to facto…
Tech-Enhanced Vocabulary Acquisition: Exploring the Use of Student-Created Video Learning Materials in the Tertiary-Level EFL (English as a Foreign Language) Flipped Classroom
This study explores the effectiveness of Technology-Assisted Vocabulary Learning (TAVL) using student-created video learning materials within a tertiary-level English as a Foreign Language (EFL) flipped classroom. By leveraging the flipped classroom model, which allocates classroom time for interactive activities and shifts instructional content delivery outside of class, the research investigates how student-produced videos can enhance vocabular…
Exploring the Use of Epistemic and Effective Stance Strategies in the EFL Classroom: Evidence From Reflective Writing
This study investigates the epistemic and effective stance strategies employed by EFL learners in reflective essays documenting their remote learning experiences. Drawing on a corpus of 298 essays, the research elucidates how students articulate their perceptions of remote learning, with particular attention to variations across gender and academic performance. Adopting a triangulated analytical approach, we examined the same set of written compo…
Epistemic, emotional, and effective stance strategies for the linguistic articulation of visual critical thinking in interculturally responsive EFL instruction
Addresses the EFL “articulation gap” by operationalising visual/critical thinking as teachable linguistic stance. • Integrates explicit stance pedagogy, Visual Thinking Routines, and interculturally responsive, justice-oriented teaching. • Models stance through a tripartite lens — epistemic, emotional, and effective. • Introduces two design principles — force calibration and iterative de-centring — to align evidential warrant, affect mobilisation…
Epistemic and effective stances: A conceptualisation and annotation system for discourse on socially relevant issues
This paper advances an illocutionary-pragmatic conceptualisation of epistemic and effective stance and presents an annotation system for their analysis in discourse on socially relevant issues. Epistemic stance is defined as a speaker’s or writer’s attempt to shape addressees’ understanding of the world, by providing justificatory support for the validity of communicated information through representative speech acts, and is typically realised th…
‘The affective civic turn’ in critical literacy education: Video-based Critical Affective Civic Literacy practices in a pre-service teacher training workshop
This study addresses a critical gap in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) pre-service teacher education: the need for structured training in critical affective civic literacy (CACL) to equip future educators to navigate the challenges of heightened immigration and political polarisation. Focusing on a cohort of 49 pre-service EFL teachers in Madrid, this research assesses their baseline empathy (both general and specific towards irregular immigr…
Between Support and Reactance: Epistemic and Effective Stance-Taking in Polarised Digital Public Responses to Reclamation Discourse
This mixed-methods case study examines polarisation and discursive stance-taking in digital reader responses to the 2021 concert poster for Spanish singer Zahara. The image, depicting Zahara in Marian iconography wearing a sash bearing a reclaimed slur, sparked nationwide controversy at the intersection of artistic freedom, religious symbolism, and feminist reclamation. Although online polarisation is well documented, the linguistic mechanisms by…
Computer Science (9 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (5 works) · Evidentiality (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)