RT Journal Article
T1 If you look at the table…: Directives in conference presentations and university lectures
A1 Fernández Polo, Francisco Javier
K1 Conference presentations
K1 Directives
K1 English as a LinguaFranca/international language
K1 Language for special purposes
K1 Native versus non-native speakers
K1 Actos de habla directivos
K1 Presentaciones en congresos
K1 Clases universitarias
K1 Hablantes nonativos
K1 Inglés académico oral
AB This paper investigates differences in the characteristic form, frequency and role of directives in two spoken academic genres, conference presentations and university lectures. The study also reports the existence of differences between English native and non-native speakers in the way they use directives at conferences. Data consist of a self-compiled corpus of conference talks and a comparable corpus of lectures from the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE). Results show that, comparatively, directives in lectures are stronger and less mitigated than in conference presentations. Conference speakers in our study make the intrinsic imposition in directives more palatable for the peer audience by using milder directive forms, deploying indirectness and stressing communal membership. Non-native speakers' directives show interesting similarities with those in lectures, a possible sign of overlapping or confusion of two major genres in the “overpopulated” generic world of academics. Findings on conference presentations and lectures are also compared with existing evidence on directives in written research articles: some characteristic roles of directives in writing are irrelevant in speech, while others, e.g. integrating visuals in the presentation and reactivating background and previously constructed content, are central to the spoken genres but irrelevant to writing
PB Wiley
SN 0802-6106
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/33626
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/33626
LA eng
NO Fernández Polo, F. J. (2023). If you look at the table…: Directives in conference presentations and university lectures. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 00, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.12504
NO Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness. Grant Number: FFI2015-64057-P
DS Minerva
RD 23 abr 2026