出版社：Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos
摘要：Research on how paper presentations in academic settings are structured and delivered has been carried out in the last decades, mainly focused on verbal components. In recent times, this research has progressed and presentations are studied from a multimodal discourse analysis perspective, which is the concern underlying this paper. Our research deals only with the set-up stage of a conference presentation. Some literature on the topic (Räisänen, 1999, 2002; Rowley-Jolivet, 2002; Rowley-Jolivet & Carter-Thomas, 2005; Fortanet-Gómez, 2008; Piqué Angordans, Camaño Puig & Piqué Noguera, 2011) and textbooks addressed to the disciplinary field of Nursing (Ribes & Feliu Rey, 2010; Giba & Ribes, 2011) describe some expected and recommended requirements to develop the speaker’s persona and catch the audience’s attention. The aim of the study is to determine whether there is a common pattern to start oral presentations in an international Nursing conference, and to analyse the initial stage from a multimodal perspective. Based on previous research on the topic (Hood & Forey, 2005; Rowley-Jolivet & Carter-Thomas, 2005), a dataset of 16 invited conference presentations on nursing are analysed, looking at their structural, metadiscoursal and non-linguistic features. Results indicate that findings from previous research need to be reconsidered. Additionally, metadiscourse and non-linguistic features show diversity in the promotions of speakers’ persona and audience engagement. Finally, the paper offers some suggestions for further research.
