Francisco J Alonso-Almeida
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1364800 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Francisco J Alonso-Almeida |
| PRENOMES | Francisco J |
| SOBRENOME | Alonso-Almeida |
| ASSINATURA | ALONSO-ALMEIDA F J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4676-3831 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Discursively acceptable memory and accountability bottlenecks in post-authoritarian testimonial discourse
This article examines how post-authoritarian testimonial discourse can voice critique while limiting the public attribution of blame. Drawing on Van Dijk’s sociocognitive approach, I analyse 41 publicly available oral-history interviews in which speakers recount gender and sexual dissidence under dictatorship and its aftermath. Rather than treating testimony as transparent access to experience, the article identifies four recurrent discourse mech…
A systemic functional account of modal verbs in late modern English women’s instructive writing (1700–1900)
This study traces changes in the use of modal verbs in women’s instructive writing between 1700 and 1900, examining how these forms shaped interpersonal meaning within the systemic functional framework. Drawing on the Corpus of Women’s Instructive Texts in English (CoWITE), the analysis explores shifts in modalisation and modulation in recipe writing as an example of technical discourse of the period. The findings reveal a move away from strong o…
The Function of Modal Verbs in Technical Instructive Texts Written by Women in Late Modern English
This paper examines the interpersonal functions of modal periphrases in technical instructive texts written by women during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, drawing on data from the Corpus of Women’s Instructive Texts in English (CoWITE). Using a systemic functional linguistics approach, the study explores both modal forms and their discourse values, with a focus on the diachronic development of modalisation and modulation systems. Quanti…
Evidential English adverbials and their French equivalents in a specialised parallel corpus
This research paper investigates the translation procedures applied to English evidential adverbials within a parallel corpus of specialized technical information in English and French aimed at popularisation. We analyse the strategies deployed by translators to ensure a natural reading in the target language, taking into consideration variation in metadiscourse functions. Corpus linguistics methods are used to analyse adverbial positioning, morp…
Stance matrices licensing that-clauses and interpersonal meaning in nineteenth-century women's instructive writing in English
This paper examines stance matrices licensing that-clauses in a corpus of instructional texts authored by women during the nineteenth century, gathered under the label COWITE19. These matrices can reveal various aspects of the authors' assessment, involvement and understanding of the information they present. In other words, their use discloses the authors' evaluation of their text while conveying a wide range of interpersonal meanings without di…
Impoliteness in women’s specialised writing in seventeenth-century English
The notion of impoliteness may not trigger prompt associations with earlier women writing, especially non-fiction, in the pre-scientific period. Evidence drawn from seventeenth-century scientific and technical writings reveals that women make use of impoliteness strategies in order to claim and delineate their place within their community of practice. In our texts, we have detected that membership to communities of practice justifies the women’s …
Constructing legitimation in Scottish newspapers
This study is concerned with the use of epistemic legitimising strategies in online newspaper articles dealing with the Scottish referendum. In this sense, we seek to explore cases of epistemic stance that indicate epistemological positioning and persuade readers of the veracity of propositions. Our study covers Scottish journal articles published online within 5 days prior to results day. In this article, we are interested in the way the Scottis…
On the mitigating function of modality and evidentiality. Evidence from English and Spanish medical research papers
Scientific writing presents a set of rhetorical strategies to effectively express mitigation of claims. Critical analysis includes epistemic modality and evidentiality within these attenuating devices. In my view, the basis for these inclusions lies in a truth-value interpretation of the data. In the present article, my main objective is to show that, while epistemic modality can indeed convey mitigation of a proposition, evidentiality does not b…
The functions of seem and parecer in early medical writing
This article studies the function of the verbs seem and parecer with an evidential meaning in early medical writing in a time span of two centuries (1500-1700). The texts for analysis are excerpted from the Corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts in the case of English and the Corpus diacrónico del español ( CORDE) in the case of Spanish. My hypothesis is that the forms seem and parecer are mainly evidential rather than epistemic, as suggest…
Stancetaking in seventeenth-century prefaces on obstetrics
This paper deals with authorial stance in prefatory material of Early Modern English manuals on women’s diseases. Publications on this field from between 1612 and 1699 constitute our corpus of study. Original digitalised texts have been analysed manually to identify and detect structures concerning authorial identity and stance, according to the model developed by Marín-Arrese (2009). This model for the identification of effective and epistemic s…
The value of may as an evidential and epistemic marker in English medical abstracts
The value of may as an evidential and epistemic marker in English medical abstracts Our article addresses the issue of the relationship between epistemic modality and evidentiality. Earlier works such as Lazard (2001) claim that English does not hold grammatical markers for the source of knowledge in contrast to other languages, e.g. Quechua, that seem to do so. Dendale and Tasmowski (2001), however, think that grammatical evidentials are possibl…
Oral Traces and Speech Acts in a Corpus of Medieval English Healing Charms
The pragmatics of and -conjunctives in Middle English medical recipes A Relevance Theory description
The present paper seeks to explore the multiple meanings of the conjunction and in Middle English medical recipes. The corpus used contains a total number of 6,300 words, mainly from the Middle English Medical Texts compiled by Taavitsainen, Pahta and Mäkinen (2005). The framework of analysis is Relevance Theory as in Sperber and Wilson (1995). Jucker (1993), Blakemore and Carston (1999), and Carston (2002) have proved that this theory can neatly…
The pragmatics of and-conjunctives in Middle English medical recipes
The present paper seeks to explore the multiple meanings of the conjunction and in Middle English medical recipes. The corpus used contains a total number of 6,300 words, mainly from the Middle English Medical Texts compiled by Taavitsainen, Pahta and Mäkinen (2005). The framework of analysis is Relevance Theory as in Sperber and Wilson (1995). Jucker (1993), Blakemore and Carston (1999), and Carston (2002) have proved that this theory can neatly…
Voices on the Past. Studies in Old and Middle English Language and Literature
The purpose of this volume is to offer a number of scholarly papers dealing with various aspects of medieval English language and literature. Voices on Medieval is organised in three main sections, according to contents: (1) medical and scientific texts and manuscripts, (2) language and linguistics, and (3) literature and culture. Bibliographic references and primary sources are given after each article, preceding the notes. We have devoted a spe…
The Formulation of Promise in Medieval English Medical Recipes
Punctuation Practice in a Late Medieval English Medical Remedybook
L'A. tente dans cette etude de donner un compte-rendu complet de la pratique de la ponctuation dans les livres de remedes medicaux en anglais medieval tardif. Il etablit ensuite les equivalences entre les systemes de ponctuation anterieurs et posterieurs a ces textes et montre qu'il y a un interet a etudier la ponctuation dans le but de comprendre de facon integrale le message du texte. Les donnees utilisees datent du XVeme s. apres J.C. et sont …
On the mitigating function of modality and evidentiality. Evidence from English and Spanish medical research papers
Scientific writing presents a set of rhetorical strategies to effectively express mitigation of claims. Critical analysis includes epistemic modality and evidentiality within these attenuating devices. In my view, the basis for these inclusions lies in a truth-value interpretation of the data. In the present article, my main objective is to show that, while epistemic modality can indeed convey mitigation of a proposition, evidentiality does not b…
The value of may as an evidential and epistemic marker in English medical abstracts
The value of may as an evidential and epistemic marker in English medical abstracts Our article addresses the issue of the relationship between epistemic modality and evidentiality. Earlier works such as Lazard (2001) claim that English does not hold grammatical markers for the source of knowledge in contrast to other languages, e.g. Quechua, that seem to do so. Dendale and Tasmowski (2001), however, think that grammatical evidentials are possibl…
The functions of seem and parecer in early medical writing
This article studies the function of the verbs seem and parecer with an evidential meaning in early medical writing in a time span of two centuries (1500-1700). The texts for analysis are excerpted from the Corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts in the case of English and the Corpus diacrónico del español ( CORDE) in the case of Spanish. My hypothesis is that the forms seem and parecer are mainly evidential rather than epistemic, as suggest…
Punctuation Practice in a Late Medieval English Medical Remedybook
L'A. tente dans cette etude de donner un compte-rendu complet de la pratique de la ponctuation dans les livres de remedes medicaux en anglais medieval tardif. Il etablit ensuite les equivalences entre les systemes de ponctuation anterieurs et posterieurs a ces textes et montre qu'il y a un interet a etudier la ponctuation dans le but de comprendre de facon integrale le message du texte. Les donnees utilisees datent du XVeme s. apres J.C. et sont …
The Formulation of Promise in Medieval English Medical Recipes
Voices on the Past. Studies in Old and Middle English Language and Literature
The purpose of this volume is to offer a number of scholarly papers dealing with various aspects of medieval English language and literature. Voices on Medieval is organised in three main sections, according to contents: (1) medical and scientific texts and manuscripts, (2) language and linguistics, and (3) literature and culture. Bibliographic references and primary sources are given after each article, preceding the notes. We have devoted a spe…
The pragmatics of and -conjunctives in Middle English medical recipes A Relevance Theory description
The present paper seeks to explore the multiple meanings of the conjunction and in Middle English medical recipes. The corpus used contains a total number of 6,300 words, mainly from the Middle English Medical Texts compiled by Taavitsainen, Pahta and Mäkinen (2005). The framework of analysis is Relevance Theory as in Sperber and Wilson (1995). Jucker (1993), Blakemore and Carston (1999), and Carston (2002) have proved that this theory can neatly…
The pragmatics of and-conjunctives in Middle English medical recipes
The present paper seeks to explore the multiple meanings of the conjunction and in Middle English medical recipes. The corpus used contains a total number of 6,300 words, mainly from the Middle English Medical Texts compiled by Taavitsainen, Pahta and Mäkinen (2005). The framework of analysis is Relevance Theory as in Sperber and Wilson (1995). Jucker (1993), Blakemore and Carston (1999), and Carston (2002) have proved that this theory can neatly…
Oral Traces and Speech Acts in a Corpus of Medieval English Healing Charms
The value of may as an evidential and epistemic marker in English medical abstracts
The value of may as an evidential and epistemic marker in English medical abstracts Our article addresses the issue of the relationship between epistemic modality and evidentiality. Earlier works such as Lazard (2001) claim that English does not hold grammatical markers for the source of knowledge in contrast to other languages, e.g. Quechua, that seem to do so. Dendale and Tasmowski (2001), however, think that grammatical evidentials are possibl…
Stancetaking in seventeenth-century prefaces on obstetrics
This paper deals with authorial stance in prefatory material of Early Modern English manuals on women’s diseases. Publications on this field from between 1612 and 1699 constitute our corpus of study. Original digitalised texts have been analysed manually to identify and detect structures concerning authorial identity and stance, according to the model developed by Marín-Arrese (2009). This model for the identification of effective and epistemic s…
On the mitigating function of modality and evidentiality. Evidence from English and Spanish medical research papers
Scientific writing presents a set of rhetorical strategies to effectively express mitigation of claims. Critical analysis includes epistemic modality and evidentiality within these attenuating devices. In my view, the basis for these inclusions lies in a truth-value interpretation of the data. In the present article, my main objective is to show that, while epistemic modality can indeed convey mitigation of a proposition, evidentiality does not b…
The functions of seem and parecer in early medical writing
This article studies the function of the verbs seem and parecer with an evidential meaning in early medical writing in a time span of two centuries (1500-1700). The texts for analysis are excerpted from the Corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts in the case of English and the Corpus diacrónico del español ( CORDE) in the case of Spanish. My hypothesis is that the forms seem and parecer are mainly evidential rather than epistemic, as suggest…
Constructing legitimation in Scottish newspapers
This study is concerned with the use of epistemic legitimising strategies in online newspaper articles dealing with the Scottish referendum. In this sense, we seek to explore cases of epistemic stance that indicate epistemological positioning and persuade readers of the veracity of propositions. Our study covers Scottish journal articles published online within 5 days prior to results day. In this article, we are interested in the way the Scottis…
Impoliteness in women’s specialised writing in seventeenth-century English
The notion of impoliteness may not trigger prompt associations with earlier women writing, especially non-fiction, in the pre-scientific period. Evidence drawn from seventeenth-century scientific and technical writings reveals that women make use of impoliteness strategies in order to claim and delineate their place within their community of practice. In our texts, we have detected that membership to communities of practice justifies the women’s …
Stance matrices licensing that-clauses and interpersonal meaning in nineteenth-century women's instructive writing in English
This paper examines stance matrices licensing that-clauses in a corpus of instructional texts authored by women during the nineteenth century, gathered under the label COWITE19. These matrices can reveal various aspects of the authors' assessment, involvement and understanding of the information they present. In other words, their use discloses the authors' evaluation of their text while conveying a wide range of interpersonal meanings without di…
A systemic functional account of modal verbs in late modern English women’s instructive writing (1700–1900)
This study traces changes in the use of modal verbs in women’s instructive writing between 1700 and 1900, examining how these forms shaped interpersonal meaning within the systemic functional framework. Drawing on the Corpus of Women’s Instructive Texts in English (CoWITE), the analysis explores shifts in modalisation and modulation in recipe writing as an example of technical discourse of the period. The findings reveal a move away from strong o…
The Function of Modal Verbs in Technical Instructive Texts Written by Women in Late Modern English
This paper examines the interpersonal functions of modal periphrases in technical instructive texts written by women during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, drawing on data from the Corpus of Women’s Instructive Texts in English (CoWITE). Using a systemic functional linguistics approach, the study explores both modal forms and their discourse values, with a focus on the diachronic development of modalisation and modulation systems. Quanti…
Evidential English adverbials and their French equivalents in a specialised parallel corpus
This research paper investigates the translation procedures applied to English evidential adverbials within a parallel corpus of specialized technical information in English and French aimed at popularisation. We analyse the strategies deployed by translators to ensure a natural reading in the target language, taking into consideration variation in metadiscourse functions. Corpus linguistics methods are used to analyse adverbial positioning, morp…
Discursively acceptable memory and accountability bottlenecks in post-authoritarian testimonial discourse
This article examines how post-authoritarian testimonial discourse can voice critique while limiting the public attribution of blame. Drawing on Van Dijk’s sociocognitive approach, I analyse 41 publicly available oral-history interviews in which speakers recount gender and sexual dissidence under dictatorship and its aftermath. Rather than treating testimony as transparent access to experience, the article identifies four recurrent discourse mech…
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