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Paulina Meza

Associate Professor and Researcher
Department of Arts and Languages
Universidad de la Serena
Chile
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Read Paulina’s February 2022 Spotlight on Language, Culture and Justice.

I am an associate professor and researcher at the Universidad de La Serena, Chile. With the support of the National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development, I have studied the production of texts in legal and medical contexts. I obtained my master’s in applied linguistics (2009) and PhD in linguistics (2014) from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile). In my postdoctoral research (2017), I investigated how authors position themselves strategically in scientific research articles.

Research Interests

  • Argumentation
  • Academic and scientific writing
  • Specialized discourse

Latest Publications

  • Meza, P. & González, F. (2021). “Un instrumento para evaluar la calidad lingüístico-discursiva de textos disciplinares producidos por estudiantes de derecho” (“An Instrument to Evaluate the Linguistic-Discursive Quality of Disciplinary Texts Produced by Law Students.” Revista Onomázein, 51.
  • Meza, P., González-Catalán, F., López-Ferrero, C. & Gutiérrez, I. (2020). “Plain Writing in the Legal Field: An Approach From the Discourse of Specialists.” Discourse Studies, 22(3).
  • González, M., Meza, P. & Castellón, M. (2019). “Medición de la Autoeficacia para la Escritura Académica: una revisión teórico-bibliográfica” (“Measurement of Self-Efficacy for Academic Writing. A Theoretical-Bibliographic Review.” Formación Universitaria, 12(6), 191-204.
  • Meza, P. & da Cunha, I. (2019). “Comunicación del conocimiento propio y relaciones discursivas en el género Tesis” (“Communication of the Author’s Own Knowledge and Discourse Relations in the Thesis Genre.” Sintagma, 31, 103-130.
  • Meza, P. & Ortega, G. (2019). “La autocita en artículos de investigación publicados en Scielo Chile: variación según el área de la ciencia y la experticia del autor” (“Self-citation in Research Articles Published in Scielo, Chile: Variation According to the Field of Science and the Expertise of the Author.” Revista Investigación Bibliotecológica: archivonomía, bibliotecología e información, 33(81), 41-56.

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