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María Martínez Lirola

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ID300587
NAMEMaría Martínez Lirola
GIVEN NAMESMaría Martínez
FAMILY NAMELirola
SIGNATURELIROLA M M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Alicante
ORCID0000-0002-6427-425X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS34
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX4
  • Aplicación de la Agenda 2030: Propuesta Didáctica que Emplea Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible para Potenciar Competencias Sociales e Interculturales en la Enseñanza del Inglés

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Revista Internacional de…•2024•References: 2

    Este estudio ofrece una aplicación didáctica de la agenda 2030 al presentar una propuesta de actividades empleadas en la enseñanza del inglés como lengua extranjera en la que se emplean los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) 1, 10 y 12 para trabajar con temas globales que favorecen el desarrollo de la competencia intercultural y algunas competencias sociales en una asignatura del grado en Estudios Ingleses. El objetivo principal es observar…

  • A critical-discourse study of the representation of unaccompanied foreign minors in a sample of the Spanish press

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Lengua y Sociedad•2023

    The arrival of unaccompanied foreign minors (UFM) to Spain has increased in the last decades. The objective of this article is to study the discursive representation of UFM in a sample of the Spanish press to deepen the understanding of how they are portrayed The data consist of a corpus of all the news items on UFM published in the digital editions of the newspapers El País, ABC and El Mundo from January 1st 2012 to January 1st 2022. The methodo…

  • A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of a Sample of Posters Used in the 2016 and 2020 Election Campaigns in Ireland

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola, María Martínez-Lirola•ARTICLE•Estudios Irlandeses•2023

    The main objective of this research is to analyse the main similarities and differences in the way the political leaders of the Irish political parties Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are portrayed in the political posters of the general election campaigns of 2016 and 2020 in Ireland. The analysis of the posters will shed light on how the visual and linguistic characteristics contribute to the portrayal of the politicians and to the way they are empowe…

  • Critical analysis of the main discourses of the Spanish press about the rescue of the ship «Aquarius»

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Communication & Society•2022

    This article presents an analysis of the main discourses that appear in a sample of Spanish newspapers before and after the arrival of the Aquarius at the port of Valencia in June 2018, in order to observe if there is a solidarity discourse or one that rejects the arrival of the rescued immigrants in Spain. The corpus consists of all the news published from June 10 to July 10, 2018 in the electronic version of the Spanish newspapers ABC, El Mundo…

  • A critical discourse study of the portrayal of immigrants as non-citizens in a sample from the Spanish press

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Lengua y migración•2022

    This study intends to contribute to critical discourse analysis (CDA) by observing how the discourse of the press represents immigrants. The objective of this paper is to observe the main linguistic characteristics used by the press to portray sub-Saharan immigrants as non-citizens, in a sample from the Spanish press. The corpus consists of the news items published in the digital editions of the newspapers El País and ABC from 1 January 2015 to 3…

  • Critical analysis of dehumanizing news photographs on immigrants: Examples of the portrayal of non-citizenship

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Discourse & Society•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 4

    This paper analyses the main visual characteristics of sub-Saharan immigrants represented as non-citizens in a sample from the Spanish press, and deepens on how this contributes to perpetuating the ‘we-they’ dichotomy. The data consist of all the news items published on sub-Saharan immigrants in the digital editions of the Spanish newspapers El País and ABC from 1 January 2016 to 1 January 2021. Kress and van Leeuwen’s visual grammar and van Leeu…

  • Exploring compositional meanings in the picturebook with a two-father family Me, Daddy & Dad (2017)

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•DELTA Documentação de Estudos em…•2022•References: 10

    This paper offers a multimodal analysis of the main characteristics of the compositional metafunction in the picturebook with a two-father family Me, Daddy & Dad (2017). The purpose of the analysis is to observe how textual meanings are created. The main tools of the grammar of visual design applied to picturebooks will be used for the analysis, following the model proposed by Painter et al. (2013). The main ideas of the said grammar will be illu…

  • Aproximación crítica discursiva a los rescates del Aquarius y el Open Arms en una muestra de la prensa española

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Discurso & sociedad•2021

    La llegada de inmigrantes a España es un tema recurrente en la prensa. En este artículo se analizarán las principales características discursivas que se observan en una muestra de la prensa española para narrar el rescate y la acogida del buque Aquarius en 2018 y del barco Open Arms en 2019. El análisis permitirá observar, por un lado, las características fundamentales de ambos discursos y, por otro lado, las similitudes y diferencias léxicas ent…

  • Violencia simbólica contra la mujer en los anuncios publicitarios: Un análisis visual crítico

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Íkala Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura•2021•References: 28

    El discurso publicitario es conocido por contribuir al sexismo y a la reproduc­ción de estereotipos de género. Este artículo se centra en la violencia simbólica que presenta el cuerpo de las mujeres como objeto sexual en textos publicitarios empleados por Dolce & Gabbana en la hoja informativa (newsletter) que envió, a través de la web, regularmente entre 2016 y 2019. La metodología utilizada fue fundamentalmente cualitativa, aunque se tuvieron e…

  • Explorando el discurso de la prensa en torno a la defensa de los derechos humanos en el rescate del buque Aquarius

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Migraciones Publicación del…•2020

    Este artículo presenta un análisis crítico discursivo de una muestra de noticias de prensa publicadas en España en torno al rescate y la posterior llegada del buque Aquarius al puerto de Valencia. El corpus consiste en todas las noticias publicadas en la versión electrónica de los periódicos españoles El País, ABC, El Mundo y La Vanguardia desde el 10 de junio hasta el 10 de julio de 2018. Como marco de análisis, se empleará la metodología del an…

  • Cómo potenciar la justicia social y la pedagogía de Freire en la enseñanza universitaria. Ejemplos de la enseñanza universitaria del inglés

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Praxis Educativa•2019

    The current university education cannot remain separate from what happens in society. Consequently, the relationship between teaching content and social demands must be strengthened. We intend to introduce social justice in university teaching through the use of social texts in the teaching-learning process. These texts are related specifically to cultural differences, the reality of people in countries of the South and that of women in different…

  • La Enseñanza de la Justicia Ambiental en el Marco de la Educación para el Desarrollo Sostenible en la Universidad

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Revista Internacional de…•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 3

    One of the current challenges of higher education has to do with sustainability and environmental justice. For this reason, different activities related to sustainable education were designed so that college students could reflect on the importance of watching over the planet, fostering critical thinking and acquiring social skills that would be useful for the labor market, such as communication, cooperation or empathy. These activities were fram…

  • Una propuesta didáctica para introducir la educación para la ciudadanía global en la enseñanza universitaria

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Revista Electrónica Educare•2018•Cited by: 1

    One of the missions of the XXI century university is to train professionals to know how to respond to social demands. In this sense, education for global citizenship contributes to social transformations while enhancing the integral learning of students by establishing relationships between what is taught in classrooms and social reality. This article presents a series of social thematic activities framed in cooperative learning in an English lan…

  • Propuesta para desarrollar competencias sociales a través del aprendizaje cooperativo en clases de inglés como lengua extranjera

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Revista Electrónica Interuniversita…•2017

    El siglo XXI requiere que la formación universitaria fomente el desarrollo de distintos tipos de competencias en el alumnado, hecho que requiere que el profesorado sea capaz de enseñarlas y que considere importante formarse en las mismas como parte de su preparación como docente. Este artículo presenta algunas actividades cooperativas que contribuyen a la adquisición de competencias sociales como la comunicación y la cooperación y se señala la ma…

  • Potenciando el enfoque de la educación para la paz en la enseñanza universitaria española: Una propuesta de actividades en asignaturas de lengua inglesa

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Íkala Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura•2017

    This article proposes a pedagogical proposal based on peace education, in concrete in two subjects of English in the degree of English Studies. The purpose of the proposal is that students can acquire social competences such as communication, cooperation or the effective resolution of conflicts at the same time that they develop the different skills that are necessary in a foreign language subject (listening, speaking, reading, writing and intera…

  • La importancia de introducir la competencia intercultural en la educación superior: Propuesta de actividades prácticas

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Revista Electrónica Educare•2017•Cited by: 2

    Teaching a foreign language like English involves teaching aspects, not only related to the target language content, but also the introduction of cultural aspects that help to learn the language embedded in a culture. This article is a contribution that shows how to include cultural aspects in the foreign language classroom in higher education. Different cooperative activities favoring the acquisition of intercultural competence were designed, an…

  • Linguistic and visual strategies for portraying immigrants as people deprived of human rights

    María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Social Semiotics•2016•Cited by: 8•References: 6

    The majority of news items on sub-Saharan immigrants in the Spanish press refer to their arrival by jumping the fences of Ceuta or Melilla or landing in small boats at the Spanish coast. The data in this article consist of all the news items published on the arrival of sub-Saharan immigrants in Spain by jumping the fences of Ceuta and Melilla, items that appeared in the digital editions of the two most popular Spanish newspapers, El País and ABC,…

  • The Use of Genre Theory for Improving Writing Proficiency Skills in Explanations

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Íkala Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura•2015•References: 17

    The study reported in this paper focuses on the use of genre theory as an appropriate framework for English L2 writing in the subject English Language IV of the degree in English Studies. We compared 40 explanations written by students in this course at the University of Alicante (Spain) before and after they had studied different text types following genre theory. This study will show that using the theory of genre as a framework to teach academ…

  • Approaching the Representation of Sub-Saharan Immigrants in a Sample From the Spanish Press: Deconstructing stereotypes

    María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Critical Discourse Studies•2014•Cited by: 7•References: 7

    Spain has become a country receiving immigrants in the last years. The majority of the items of news related to immigration that appear in the press exhibit negative characteristics. The main purpose of this article is to observe the linguistic and visual representation of Sub-Saharan immigrants in a sample of the Spanish press in order to answer the following research questions: how are Sub-Saharan immigrants portrayed linguistically and visuall…

  • Exploring visual dysphemisms in pieces of news related to immigrant minors in a Spanish newspaper

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Visual Communication•2014•Cited by: 4•References: 10

    This article describes the main visual characteristics used in different multimodal pieces of news related to immigrant minors in the newspaper El País, which is one of the most important newspapers in Spain. The corpus of examples consists of all the pieces of news dealing with immigrant children published from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2011. For the framework of analysis, the study draws on visual grammar and critical discourse analysis. Th…

  • Lexical and visual choices in the representation of immigration in the Spanish press

    Eliecer Crespo-Fernández, Eliecer Crespo Fernández et al.•ARTICLE•Spanish in Context•2012

    Our goal in this paper is to shed some light on the treatment of immigration issues in the current Spanish press via the analysis of the visual and lexical choices used in the journalistic representation of immigration. With this in mind, taking Critical Discourse Analysis and Visual Grammar as theoretical paradigms, we will explore how immigration is represented in a representative sample of multimodal texts found in newspapers from Alicante, a …

  • The dream of a perfect body come true: Multimodality in cosmetic surgery advertising

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola, Jan Chovanec•ARTICLE•Discourse & Society•2012•Cited by: 7•References: 13

    This article documents the operation of multimodal and rhetorical strategies in cosmetic surgery leaflets, with a focus on the interplay between the verbal and visual channels. It describes how advertising discourse exploits the image of an idealized female body in order to achieve its economic goals. Recipients are targeted through the application of the prevalent ideology of femininity, which in the Western context is increasingly dependent on …

  • Exploring ideology and language in Paton's Too late the phalarope (1953): A contextual approach

    María Martínez Lirola, David Levey•ARTICLE•Scrutiny2•2011•References: 5

    In this article we explore the relationship between Paton's response to ideology, which also reflects that of his own religious convictions, and his conception of human identity in his novel Too late the phalarope (1953), paying attention to some structures of marked syntax in the novel. For its framework of analysis this study employs Systemic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis, to establish the relationship between Paton's d…

  • The predicated Theme in Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country—a resource for written text

    María Martínez Lirola, Bradley Smith•ARTICLE•Text and Talk•2009

    In this paper we explore the use of predicated Themes in the novel Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) by Alan Paton, using the systemic functional framework of analysis. We show how this noncanonical structure helps to build the novel's semantic textual design. The analysis of the structural component of predicated Themes (Theme–Rheme and Given–New structures and their interactions) will be essential to an understanding of the functions these struct…

  • Exploring new forms of gender violence: Women as objects in plastic surgery’s leaflets

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Revista Alicantina de Estudios…•2009•Cited by: 1

    There are many texts in which images of women are used for different purposes in our society. This research explores the main strategies used to create meaning in two multimodal texts used by leaflets advertising cosmetic surgery in Alicante (Spain). The study aims to point out that women are treated as objects in these leaflets. To demonstrate this argument the main visual and linguistic characteristics will be analysed in both multimodal texts …

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  • Linguistic and visual strategies for portraying immigrants as people deprived of human rights

    María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Social Semiotics•2016•Cited by: 8•References: 6

    The majority of news items on sub-Saharan immigrants in the Spanish press refer to their arrival by jumping the fences of Ceuta or Melilla or landing in small boats at the Spanish coast. The data in this article consist of all the news items published on the arrival of sub-Saharan immigrants in Spain by jumping the fences of Ceuta and Melilla, items that appeared in the digital editions of the two most popular Spanish newspapers, El País and ABC,…

  • Approaching the Representation of Sub-Saharan Immigrants in a Sample From the Spanish Press: Deconstructing stereotypes

    María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Critical Discourse Studies•2014•Cited by: 7•References: 7

    Spain has become a country receiving immigrants in the last years. The majority of the items of news related to immigration that appear in the press exhibit negative characteristics. The main purpose of this article is to observe the linguistic and visual representation of Sub-Saharan immigrants in a sample of the Spanish press in order to answer the following research questions: how are Sub-Saharan immigrants portrayed linguistically and visuall…

  • The dream of a perfect body come true: Multimodality in cosmetic surgery advertising

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola, Jan Chovanec•ARTICLE•Discourse & Society•2012•Cited by: 7•References: 13

    This article documents the operation of multimodal and rhetorical strategies in cosmetic surgery leaflets, with a focus on the interplay between the verbal and visual channels. It describes how advertising discourse exploits the image of an idealized female body in order to achieve its economic goals. Recipients are targeted through the application of the prevalent ideology of femininity, which in the Western context is increasingly dependent on …

  • Exploring visual dysphemisms in pieces of news related to immigrant minors in a Spanish newspaper

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Visual Communication•2014•Cited by: 4•References: 10

    This article describes the main visual characteristics used in different multimodal pieces of news related to immigrant minors in the newspaper El País, which is one of the most important newspapers in Spain. The corpus of examples consists of all the pieces of news dealing with immigrant children published from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2011. For the framework of analysis, the study draws on visual grammar and critical discourse analysis. Th…

  • Critical analysis of dehumanizing news photographs on immigrants: Examples of the portrayal of non-citizenship

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Discourse & Society•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 4

    This paper analyses the main visual characteristics of sub-Saharan immigrants represented as non-citizens in a sample from the Spanish press, and deepens on how this contributes to perpetuating the ‘we-they’ dichotomy. The data consist of all the news items published on sub-Saharan immigrants in the digital editions of the Spanish newspapers El País and ABC from 1 January 2016 to 1 January 2021. Kress and van Leeuwen’s visual grammar and van Leeu…

  • La importancia de introducir la competencia intercultural en la educación superior: Propuesta de actividades prácticas

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Revista Electrónica Educare•2017•Cited by: 2

    Teaching a foreign language like English involves teaching aspects, not only related to the target language content, but also the introduction of cultural aspects that help to learn the language embedded in a culture. This article is a contribution that shows how to include cultural aspects in the foreign language classroom in higher education. Different cooperative activities favoring the acquisition of intercultural competence were designed, an…

  • La Enseñanza de la Justicia Ambiental en el Marco de la Educación para el Desarrollo Sostenible en la Universidad

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Revista Internacional de…•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 3

    One of the current challenges of higher education has to do with sustainability and environmental justice. For this reason, different activities related to sustainable education were designed so that college students could reflect on the importance of watching over the planet, fostering critical thinking and acquiring social skills that would be useful for the labor market, such as communication, cooperation or empathy. These activities were fram…

  • Una propuesta didáctica para introducir la educación para la ciudadanía global en la enseñanza universitaria

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Revista Electrónica Educare•2018•Cited by: 1

    One of the missions of the XXI century university is to train professionals to know how to respond to social demands. In this sense, education for global citizenship contributes to social transformations while enhancing the integral learning of students by establishing relationships between what is taught in classrooms and social reality. This article presents a series of social thematic activities framed in cooperative learning in an English lan…

  • Exploring new forms of gender violence: Women as objects in plastic surgery’s leaflets

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Revista Alicantina de Estudios…•2009•Cited by: 1

    There are many texts in which images of women are used for different purposes in our society. This research explores the main strategies used to create meaning in two multimodal texts used by leaflets advertising cosmetic surgery in Alicante (Spain). The study aims to point out that women are treated as objects in these leaflets. To demonstrate this argument the main visual and linguistic characteristics will be analysed in both multimodal texts …

  • Reflections on some syntactical processes and their communicative implications in two short stories written by Julia Álvarez: My English and A Genetics of Justice

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Revista Alicantina de Estudios…•2003

    Our hypothesis in this article is that Julia Álvarez chooses several anomalous syntactical structures in English in the short stories My English and A Genetics of Justice to point out certain facts or certain feelings that are important in her life. In this sense we can say that there is a relationship between the use of words or structures and the author’s ideology. This article is within the framework of Systemic Functional Grammar for two main…

  • García Velasco, Daniel: Funcionalismo y Lingüística: La gramática funcional de S.C. Dik. Oviedo: Servicio de Publicaciones, 295 p

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Revista Alicantina de Estudios…•2004

    main orthographic discrepancies that can be observed between the Duden Fremdworterbuch (2001, written according to the new writing rules) and the DEA are due to the univerbation introduced by the orthographic reform in the case of compound terins like cash flow or merchant bank (now written in one word: Cashflow, Merchantbank), whose standard writing is still given by Gorlach's dictionary as identical to the English word.To sum up, the DEA can ce…

  • A systemic functional analysis of two multimodal covers

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Revista Alicantina de Estudios…•2006

    Our society is influenced by new texts, which are clearly characterised by the increasing dominance of the visual mode; this implies that new literacies need to be developed as a way of enabling the readers to question the texts they are exposed to. We argue for a multimodal and situated approach for understanding and interpreting writing on magazine covers because they are examples of an increased emphasis on modes of representation other than t…

  • Exploring Predicated Themes from a Systemic Functional Point of View in Alan Paton's Novels

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Journal of Literary Studies•2008

    This paper intends to prove that the recurrent use of predicated themes in the novels written by the South African writer Alan Paton has certain communicative implications, since they are appropriate to express feelings, and to highlight information in situations of climax in the novels under analysis. The analysis of this syntactic structure in context will point out that predicated themes allow the writer to be conscious that he is asserting or…

  • Las relaciones entre las características lingüísticas y visuales de las noticias sobre inmigración en la prensa gratuita y su relación con la audiencia

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Discurso & sociedad•2008

    En este trabajo se explorarán las principales estrategias lingüísticas y visuales empleadas para crear significado en dos textos multimodales sobre inmigración publicados en un periódico local de Alicante. También se observará cómo el texto escrito de cada artículo contribuye, junto con la imagen, a la creación de una imagen determinada de los inmigrantes caracterizada por la pobreza y la exclusión. El análisis tendrá como marco teórico la gramát…

  • The predicated Theme in Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country—a resource for written text

    María Martínez Lirola, Bradley Smith•ARTICLE•Text and Talk•2009

    In this paper we explore the use of predicated Themes in the novel Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) by Alan Paton, using the systemic functional framework of analysis. We show how this noncanonical structure helps to build the novel's semantic textual design. The analysis of the structural component of predicated Themes (Theme–Rheme and Given–New structures and their interactions) will be essential to an understanding of the functions these struct…

  • Exploring new forms of gender violence: Women as objects in plastic surgery’s leaflets

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Revista Alicantina de Estudios…•2009•Cited by: 1

    There are many texts in which images of women are used for different purposes in our society. This research explores the main strategies used to create meaning in two multimodal texts used by leaflets advertising cosmetic surgery in Alicante (Spain). The study aims to point out that women are treated as objects in these leaflets. To demonstrate this argument the main visual and linguistic characteristics will be analysed in both multimodal texts …

  • Exploring ideology and language in Paton's Too late the phalarope (1953): A contextual approach

    María Martínez Lirola, David Levey•ARTICLE•Scrutiny2•2011•References: 5

    In this article we explore the relationship between Paton's response to ideology, which also reflects that of his own religious convictions, and his conception of human identity in his novel Too late the phalarope (1953), paying attention to some structures of marked syntax in the novel. For its framework of analysis this study employs Systemic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis, to establish the relationship between Paton's d…

  • Lexical and visual choices in the representation of immigration in the Spanish press

    Eliecer Crespo-Fernández, Eliecer Crespo Fernández et al.•ARTICLE•Spanish in Context•2012

    Our goal in this paper is to shed some light on the treatment of immigration issues in the current Spanish press via the analysis of the visual and lexical choices used in the journalistic representation of immigration. With this in mind, taking Critical Discourse Analysis and Visual Grammar as theoretical paradigms, we will explore how immigration is represented in a representative sample of multimodal texts found in newspapers from Alicante, a …

  • The dream of a perfect body come true: Multimodality in cosmetic surgery advertising

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola, Jan Chovanec•ARTICLE•Discourse & Society•2012•Cited by: 7•References: 13

    This article documents the operation of multimodal and rhetorical strategies in cosmetic surgery leaflets, with a focus on the interplay between the verbal and visual channels. It describes how advertising discourse exploits the image of an idealized female body in order to achieve its economic goals. Recipients are targeted through the application of the prevalent ideology of femininity, which in the Western context is increasingly dependent on …

  • Approaching the Representation of Sub-Saharan Immigrants in a Sample From the Spanish Press: Deconstructing stereotypes

    María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Critical Discourse Studies•2014•Cited by: 7•References: 7

    Spain has become a country receiving immigrants in the last years. The majority of the items of news related to immigration that appear in the press exhibit negative characteristics. The main purpose of this article is to observe the linguistic and visual representation of Sub-Saharan immigrants in a sample of the Spanish press in order to answer the following research questions: how are Sub-Saharan immigrants portrayed linguistically and visuall…

  • Exploring visual dysphemisms in pieces of news related to immigrant minors in a Spanish newspaper

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Visual Communication•2014•Cited by: 4•References: 10

    This article describes the main visual characteristics used in different multimodal pieces of news related to immigrant minors in the newspaper El País, which is one of the most important newspapers in Spain. The corpus of examples consists of all the pieces of news dealing with immigrant children published from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2011. For the framework of analysis, the study draws on visual grammar and critical discourse analysis. Th…

  • The Use of Genre Theory for Improving Writing Proficiency Skills in Explanations

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Íkala Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura•2015•References: 17

    The study reported in this paper focuses on the use of genre theory as an appropriate framework for English L2 writing in the subject English Language IV of the degree in English Studies. We compared 40 explanations written by students in this course at the University of Alicante (Spain) before and after they had studied different text types following genre theory. This study will show that using the theory of genre as a framework to teach academ…

  • Linguistic and visual strategies for portraying immigrants as people deprived of human rights

    María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Social Semiotics•2016•Cited by: 8•References: 6

    The majority of news items on sub-Saharan immigrants in the Spanish press refer to their arrival by jumping the fences of Ceuta or Melilla or landing in small boats at the Spanish coast. The data in this article consist of all the news items published on the arrival of sub-Saharan immigrants in Spain by jumping the fences of Ceuta and Melilla, items that appeared in the digital editions of the two most popular Spanish newspapers, El País and ABC,…

  • Propuesta para desarrollar competencias sociales a través del aprendizaje cooperativo en clases de inglés como lengua extranjera

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Revista Electrónica Interuniversita…•2017

    El siglo XXI requiere que la formación universitaria fomente el desarrollo de distintos tipos de competencias en el alumnado, hecho que requiere que el profesorado sea capaz de enseñarlas y que considere importante formarse en las mismas como parte de su preparación como docente. Este artículo presenta algunas actividades cooperativas que contribuyen a la adquisición de competencias sociales como la comunicación y la cooperación y se señala la ma…

  • Potenciando el enfoque de la educación para la paz en la enseñanza universitaria española: Una propuesta de actividades en asignaturas de lengua inglesa

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Íkala Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura•2017

    This article proposes a pedagogical proposal based on peace education, in concrete in two subjects of English in the degree of English Studies. The purpose of the proposal is that students can acquire social competences such as communication, cooperation or the effective resolution of conflicts at the same time that they develop the different skills that are necessary in a foreign language subject (listening, speaking, reading, writing and intera…

  • La importancia de introducir la competencia intercultural en la educación superior: Propuesta de actividades prácticas

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Revista Electrónica Educare•2017•Cited by: 2

    Teaching a foreign language like English involves teaching aspects, not only related to the target language content, but also the introduction of cultural aspects that help to learn the language embedded in a culture. This article is a contribution that shows how to include cultural aspects in the foreign language classroom in higher education. Different cooperative activities favoring the acquisition of intercultural competence were designed, an…

  • La Enseñanza de la Justicia Ambiental en el Marco de la Educación para el Desarrollo Sostenible en la Universidad

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Revista Internacional de…•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 3

    One of the current challenges of higher education has to do with sustainability and environmental justice. For this reason, different activities related to sustainable education were designed so that college students could reflect on the importance of watching over the planet, fostering critical thinking and acquiring social skills that would be useful for the labor market, such as communication, cooperation or empathy. These activities were fram…

  • Una propuesta didáctica para introducir la educación para la ciudadanía global en la enseñanza universitaria

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Revista Electrónica Educare•2018•Cited by: 1

    One of the missions of the XXI century university is to train professionals to know how to respond to social demands. In this sense, education for global citizenship contributes to social transformations while enhancing the integral learning of students by establishing relationships between what is taught in classrooms and social reality. This article presents a series of social thematic activities framed in cooperative learning in an English lan…

  • Cómo potenciar la justicia social y la pedagogía de Freire en la enseñanza universitaria. Ejemplos de la enseñanza universitaria del inglés

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Praxis Educativa•2019

    The current university education cannot remain separate from what happens in society. Consequently, the relationship between teaching content and social demands must be strengthened. We intend to introduce social justice in university teaching through the use of social texts in the teaching-learning process. These texts are related specifically to cultural differences, the reality of people in countries of the South and that of women in different…

  • Explorando el discurso de la prensa en torno a la defensa de los derechos humanos en el rescate del buque Aquarius

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Migraciones Publicación del…•2020

    Este artículo presenta un análisis crítico discursivo de una muestra de noticias de prensa publicadas en España en torno al rescate y la posterior llegada del buque Aquarius al puerto de Valencia. El corpus consiste en todas las noticias publicadas en la versión electrónica de los periódicos españoles El País, ABC, El Mundo y La Vanguardia desde el 10 de junio hasta el 10 de julio de 2018. Como marco de análisis, se empleará la metodología del an…

  • Aproximación crítica discursiva a los rescates del Aquarius y el Open Arms en una muestra de la prensa española

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Discurso & sociedad•2021

    La llegada de inmigrantes a España es un tema recurrente en la prensa. En este artículo se analizarán las principales características discursivas que se observan en una muestra de la prensa española para narrar el rescate y la acogida del buque Aquarius en 2018 y del barco Open Arms en 2019. El análisis permitirá observar, por un lado, las características fundamentales de ambos discursos y, por otro lado, las similitudes y diferencias léxicas ent…

  • Violencia simbólica contra la mujer en los anuncios publicitarios: Un análisis visual crítico

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Íkala Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura•2021•References: 28

    El discurso publicitario es conocido por contribuir al sexismo y a la reproduc­ción de estereotipos de género. Este artículo se centra en la violencia simbólica que presenta el cuerpo de las mujeres como objeto sexual en textos publicitarios empleados por Dolce & Gabbana en la hoja informativa (newsletter) que envió, a través de la web, regularmente entre 2016 y 2019. La metodología utilizada fue fundamentalmente cualitativa, aunque se tuvieron e…

  • Critical analysis of the main discourses of the Spanish press about the rescue of the ship «Aquarius»

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Communication & Society•2022

    This article presents an analysis of the main discourses that appear in a sample of Spanish newspapers before and after the arrival of the Aquarius at the port of Valencia in June 2018, in order to observe if there is a solidarity discourse or one that rejects the arrival of the rescued immigrants in Spain. The corpus consists of all the news published from June 10 to July 10, 2018 in the electronic version of the Spanish newspapers ABC, El Mundo…

  • A critical discourse study of the portrayal of immigrants as non-citizens in a sample from the Spanish press

    Open Access•María Martínez Lirola•ARTICLE•Lengua y migración•2022

    This study intends to contribute to critical discourse analysis (CDA) by observing how the discourse of the press represents immigrants. The objective of this paper is to observe the main linguistic characteristics used by the press to portray sub-Saharan immigrants as non-citizens, in a sample from the Spanish press. The corpus consists of the news items published in the digital editions of the newspapers El País and ABC from 1 January 2015 to 3…

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