PILAR MUR DUEÑAS (PhD) is a lecturer in the Department of English and German studies at the Faculty of Education of the University of Zaragoza (Spain), where she teaches EFL and English Methodology courses. Her main research interest is the intercultural analysis of written academic discourse. Her studies have mainly focused on the study of interpersonality features in research articles in the international English-medium context of publication and in the national Spanish context. She has published the results of her research in international journals such as Journal of English for Academic English, Journal of Pragmatics and International Journal of Applied Linguistics.

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Recent publications

Mur Dueñas, Pilar. 2012. With regard to L2 academic writing: the use of topicalisers in L1 (English and Spanish) and L2 (English) research articles”. Brno Studies in English 38: in press.

Mur Dueñas, Pilar. 2012. Getting research published internationally in English: An ethnographic account of a team of Finance Spanish scholars’ struggles. Ibérica 24: in press.

Mur Dueñas, Pilar. 2011. An intercultural analysis of metadiscourse features in research articles written in English and in Spanish. Journal of  Pragmatics 43: 3068-3079.

Mur Dueñas, Pilar. 2011. Ken Hyland. In Carol A. Chapelle (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Wiley-Blackwell.

Mur Dueñas, Pilar. 2011.  A corpus-based analysis  of two crucial steps in Business Management research articles: The  creation of a research space and the statement of limitations. Nordic Journal of English Studies: in press.

Mur Dueñas, Pilar. 2010. A contrastive analysis of research article introductions in English and Spanish. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 61: 119-133.

Mur Dueñas, Pilar, Rosa Lorés Sanz and Enrique Lafuente Millán. (eds.). 2010. Interpersonality in Written Academic Discourse. Special issue of Journal of English for Academic Purposes 9(2). http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/14751585/9/2

Lorés Sanz, Rosa, Pilar Mur Dueñas and Enrique Lafuente Millán (eds.). 2010. Consturcting Interpersonality in Written Academic Genres. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. http://www.c-s-p.org//Flyers/Constructing-Interpersonality--Multiple-Perspectives-on-Written-Academic-Genres1-4438-1981-6.htm

Lafuente Millán Enrique, Pilar Mur Dueñas, Rosa Lorés Sanz and Ignacio Vázquez Orta. 2010. Interpersonality in written academic discourse: three analytical perspectives. In Rosa Lorés Sanz, Pilar Mur Dueñas and Enrique Lafuente Millán (eds.). Constructing Interpersonality: Multiple Perspectives on written academic genres. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing:13-39

Mur Dueñas, Pilar. 2010. Attitude markers in business management research articles: A cross-cultural corpus-driven approach.International Journal of Applied Linguistics 20 (1): 50-72.

Mur Dueñas, Pilar and Rosa Lorés. 2010. Responding to Spanish academics’ needs to write in english: From research to the implementation of academic writing workshops. En Rosario Caballero and Mª Jesús Pinar (eds.). Ways and Modes of Human Communication. AESLA and Universidad de Castilla la Mancha: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Castilla la Mancha: 501-509.

Mur Dueñas, Pilar. 2009. Logical markers in L1 (Spanish and English) and L2 (English) Business research articles. English Text Construction 2 (2): 246-264.

Mur Dueñas, Pilar. 2009. Designing EAP materials based on intercultural corpus analyses: The case of logical markers in research articles. Revista de Lengua y Lingüística Aplicadas 4: 125-135.

Mur Dueñas, Pilar. 2009. Citation in business management RAs: A contrastive
corpus-based analysis. In Suomela-Salmi, Eija (ed.). Cross-cultural and Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Academic Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins: 49-60.

Mur Dueñas, Pilar. 2008. Analysing engagement markers cross-culturally: The case of English and Spanish business management research articles. In Sally Burgess and Pedro Martín Martín (eds.). English as an Additional Language in Research Publication and Communication. Bern: Peter Lang: 197-213.

Mur Dueñas, Pilar. 2007. ‘I/we focus on’: A cross-cultural analysis of self-mentions in business management research articles. Journal of English for Academic Purposes 6: 143-162.

Mur Dueñas, Pilar. 2007. Same genre, same discipline; however, there are differences: A cross-cultural analysis of logical markers in academic writing. ESP Across Cultures 4: 37-53.