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Still thinking about Patricia Bou Franch's wonderful keynote at the 6th @upcelconference.bsky.social. Her insights on medical gaslighting and epistemic activism were incredibly thought-provoking. It was a true pleasure being by her side, chairing such an engaging session. Thank you, Patricia!

To conclude, Erika Sajtós from Pázmány Péter Catholic University talks about "Voice Onset Time and Voicing Effect size in two ethnic varieties: Pākehā and Māori New Zealand English"

All the way from @uio.no, Connor Bradley presents "Descendants of Germania and Beyond: A Dialectometric Geography of the Medieval North"

Then, María Albalate Martínez from @uam.es discusses the notion of "Categorizing Suicide Notes as a Text Type"

Nadia M. Arias González from @usaloficial.bsky.social presents her research: "Between Panels, Across Borders: Graphic Narratives of Migration and their Pedagogical Potential in EFL Education"

Mario González Pinto from @usaloficial.bsky.social presents "Picturebooks about Migration: Applicability in Multicultural and Multilingual Classrooms"

From Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Alícia Gual Miró's talk is titled: "Teaching ‘have/get’ Causatives: An Inductive Eclectic Approach"

Luca Leoni from Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski” presents his research: "Cultural Comparison of Trump’s and Meloni’s Rhetoric at CPAC"

Next, Jesús Vázquez Sanz from @ucm.es discusses "Exploring the Pragmatic Role of Speech Acts and Implicatures: The Sexist and Gendered Representation of Women in Written Advertising"

Then, Jianhua Chen from @uam.es talked about "Verbal Irony in Stand-up Comedy: A Gender and Culture Comparative Analysis"

First, Irune Fernández Montes & Maria Gkoutziomitrou from @unicomplutense presented their paper on "Revisiting compliment responses through a linguo-cultural lens: From English to Greek and Spanish"

Today we had exciting panels about Intercultural & Critical Pragmatics, Multimodal approaches to EFL, Text typology & Language Variation and Evolution

That's a wrap for UPCEL2026! Thank you all for choosing us and we hope to see you very soon 🫂

An honour to have presented at @upcelconference.bsky.social ! ✨

Today is the last day of UPCEL2026. Here you have the fascinating panel that will close this year's conference. See you a bit!

Today we conclude with Historical tour about the heritage of the Spanish Civil War on the university campus delivered by Professor Francisco J. Moreno Martín. We hope you enjoyed and got to learn a bit about the history of the campus!

Antonio Moreno Jurado (@uneduniv.bsky.social & Punt d'Estudi) presents his research on: "Redefining 'Native': How EFL Students Blend and Perceive Different English Varieties"

Lastly, Claudia Alea Parrondo from @ucm.es presents her work titled "Is interdisciplinarity a journey or a battle? Applying Cognitive Metaphor Theory in Literary Studies"

Ben-Yelles Lynda Chahinez from Djillali Liabes University Sidi Bel Abbes presents "The Linguistic Market of Algerian Higher Education: A Bourdieusian Analysis of Language Choices and Symbolic Power"

From Université de Tours, Isaiah Timberlake presents his work on "(Zoo)logical garden: a constructional comparison of curtates and their corresponding NPs"

Laura Soriano-Gonzalez from @ua.es presents "An Exploratory Study of AI in EFL Oral Proficiency Evaluation"

Carmen Sumillera Iglesias from @usaloficial.bsky.social discusses "The gap between language policies and language practices in South African higher education"

Next, Salma Errami from @unirioja.bsky.social presents her work on "Lexical Blends Across Distant Domains and Multiple Inputs from a Cognitive Linguistic Perspective — A Cognitive Approach"

We're also having a panel on Bilingualism & Language Policy, Natalia García Martínez from @ucm.es talks about "Digital Tools and Textbooks in Madrid Bilingual Programmes: A Systematic Literature Review"

We're starting again with a panel on Cognitive linguistics. First, Elif Kiraz Yildiz from Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (@Uni-Freiburg.de): "Anger Across Languages: Turkish–English Differences in Lexicon, Syntax, Metaphor"

Our second great keynote speaker is Dr. Francisco Lorenzo Bergillos from @pablodeolavide.upo.es. The title of the talk is "Bilingualism and social inequality: notes on linguistic capital"

Our poster session is ON! Reach out to our early career researchers to delve into their work.

From @ucm.es, Patricia Avilés Moreno presents her talk titled "Integrating Artificial Intelligence to Foster Reading Comprehension in Secondary and Vocational Training Education"

Finally, Marina González de San Pedro Jiménez from @unirioja.bsky.social introduces "The effects of CLIL on young multilingual learners' lexical output: A cross-linguistic analysis"

Aitor Tejeda Pablos from @ucm.es presents his research on "The Effects of a Non-Native Family Environment on English Second Language Learning"

Montserrat Camarasa Llácer (@ucm) talks about "Biases around reproductive rights in the opinions of the United States’ Supreme Court: A discourse-historical approach"

Sandra Abad-Bataller from @ua.es talks about "Authenticity metrics in ESP: A statistical and perceptual comparison of AI-Generated and traditional resources"

Gina Grace Arnold from Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (@UICBarcelona.bsky.social) discusses "Pre-Primary and Primary Teachers’ Perspectives on Tasks in CLIL Contexts"

Marija Miletić from Kyung Hee University shares her research on "A Corpus-Based Study of What If Constructions"

Blanca Fernández Soriano from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (@ucm.es) presents "Coding the colonial: Methodological challenges in building a corpus of 19th-century women's letters from the Australian diaspora"

Next, Claudia Medrano González (@uahes.bsky.social & Vilnius University) presents her talk titled "(Re)territorialising Fem(me)infinity: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Young Adult Erotic Romance Advertising"

Veronika Prokopová from @usc.gal talks about "Translanguaging in Foreign Language Classes: Teachers’ Reported Practices and Beliefs in the Czech Context"

First, Maria Bîrlea from @usaloficial.bsky.social is presenting "Fathers don’t cook: Perpetuating gender stereotypes in migration-themed picturebooks"

Good morning, all! We're starting today with two panels on (Critical) Discourse Studies and Applied Linguistics

Due to the consequences of the tragic train accident that occurred in Spain on January 18th, Francisco Lorenzo will NOT be able to attend the conference in person. Thus, today’s plenary talk will be delivered online. Thank you for your understanding.

From @unizar.es, we have Luis Martínez-Kleiser Magaña and his topic "Analysing recontextualised knowledge for adolescents: bringing multimodal scientific discourse into the EFL classroom"

Starting the panel of English for Specific Purposes & Professional Competence, here we have María Dolores Camacho Díaz from the @upm.es with a presentation named "Bridging Abstract Language and Technical Application: A Gamified Approach to Teaching Metaphors in Aeronautical ESP"

This panel concludes with Marianne Lorraine Samiling and her talk: "Trilingual “Code-Switching”: Role Of English in Second-Generation Filipino Immigrants in Madrid, Spain"

Next, Maria Gkoutziomitrou from presents her research: "From Standard to Spectrum: Fostering University Students' Attitudes through Explicit Instruction on Language Variation"

We're starting again with a panel on Sociolinguistics with Julia Gema Pérez Gallardo. She is presenting "The English language: To what extent does it become a tool of social status?"

The last presenter of the Pragmatics & Discourse Studies panel is Océane Smith-Médion from the Laboratoire Centre for Anglophone Studies (CAS) and will talk about "A Study of the Use of the Prefix RE- and Its Presuppositions in a corpus of U.S. Presidential Campaign Speeches

Next, Santiago Iñarrea from @usaloficial.bsky.social and his presentation "Comics as Multimodal Texts in EFL: Developing Communicative Competence through Flipped Classroom Approaches"

Yue Sun from from @ucm.es presents her work titled "The Influence of Proficiency on the Receptive Pragmatic Competence of Spanish Foreign Language Learners in Other-initiated Repair"

Sashka Jovanovska and Ana Koceva from Goce Delcev University present her research on "The Pragmatics of Sorry: A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of English and Macedonian Online Communication"