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The yellow tree on the upper left is called "araguaney" (Tabebuia chrysantha or 'golden voice'), a name from indigenous (Caribbean) origin. It belongs to the Bignoneaceae family and was decreed as Venezuelan's national tree in 1948.

Selected Publications

All her publications will soon be available "Open Access" on the institutional repository of the University of The Andes

Books

  • • 2010 Salager Meyer, F., and Lewin, B. The Word and the Sword: Criticism in the Academy. Peter Lang. Bern. (Proposal accepted)
  • • 2006 Gotti, M., and Salager-Meyer, F. Advances in Medical Discourse Analysis: Written and Oral Contexts, with Peter Lang. Bern
  • • 2004 Salager-Meyer, F. Reading Medical English: a Texbook for medical doctors, students and researchers. Consejo de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Los Andes y Consejo de Estudios de Post-Grado. Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela.
  • • 1997 Salager-Meyer, F., Bolívar A., Febres, J., and Serra, M. ESP in Latin America. Consejo de Publicación. Universidad de Los Andes. Mérida. Venezuela.

 

Scientific Articles

  • • 2010 Salager-Meyer, F. "Academic book reviews and the construction of scientific knowledge (1890-2005)" Linguistic and Translation Studies in Scientific Communication. Posteguillo, S., and M.L. Gea Valr (Eds). Peter Lang. In press
  • • 2009 Salager-Meyer, F., M.A. Alcaraz Ariza, and M. Pabón Berbesí "Hidden influencers and the scholarly enterprise: a cross-linguistic/cultural analysis of acknowledgments in medical research papers." English for Professional and Academic Purposes. M.F. Ruiz-Garrido, J.C. Palmer-Silveira and I. Fortanet-Gómez (Eds.) Universitat Jaume I (Castellón, Spain).
  • • 2009 Salager-Meyer, F., Alcaraz Ariza, M.A., and Pabón Berbesí, M. "Backstage solidarity in Spanish- and English- written medical research papers: publication context and the acknowledgment paratext". JASIST ( Journal of the American Association of Information Science and Technology ) Vol. 60(2), p. 307-317. See PDF File
  • • 2008 Hyland, K., and Salager-Meyer F. Scientific Writing. ARIST (Annual Review of Information Science and Technology ). 297-339
  • • 2008 Salager-Meyer, F. Scientific publishing in developing countries: challenges for the future”. Journal of English for Academic Purposes. 7, p. 121-132. See PDF File
  • • 2007 Salager-Meyer, F., M.A., Alcaraz Ariza and M. Pabón. "The prosecutor and the defendant: contrasting critical voices in French- and English-written academic book reviews" Language and Discipline Perspectives on Academic Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 109-128. ISBN 1-84718-093-0.
  • • 2007 Salager-Meyer, Alcaraz Ariza, M.A., and Pabón M. "Collegiality, critique and the construction of scientific argumentation in medical book reviews: a diachronic approach" Journal of Pragmatics (39), p. 1758-1774
  • • 2006 Salager-Meyer, F., M. A. Alcaraz Ariza, M. Pabón and N. Zambrano. "Paying one's intellectual debt: acknowledgments in conventional vs. complementary/alternative medical research". In M. Gotti and F. Salager-Meyer (Eds) Advances in Medical Discourse Analysis: Oral and Writtten Contexts. Peter Lang. p. 407-430.
  • • 2006 Salager-Meyer, F., Alcaraz Ariza, M. A., and Zambrano, N. "Big science, internationalisation, professionnalisation et fonction sociale de la science à travers l'analyse diachronique des recensions d'ouvrage" LSP and Professional Communication. Vol 6(1). 8-26. See PDF File
  • • 2004 Salager-Meyer, F., and M.A., Alcaraz Ariza "Negative appraisals in academic book reviews: a cross -linguistic approach" In Intercultural Aspects of Specialized Communication. Linguistics Insight Series. C. Candlin and M. Gotti (Editors). Peter Lang. 149-172.
  • • 2003 Salager-Meyer, F. and M.A. Alcaraz Ariza. "Critical referenciation in Spanish medical discourse : a cross generic approach (1930-1999)" International Journal of Applied Linguistics. 13(1), 96-115.
  • • 2003 Salager-Meyer, F., M.A. Alcaraz Ariza and N. Zambrano. “The scimitar, the dagger and the glove: intercultural differences in the rhetoric of criticism in Spanish, French and English medical discourse (1930-1995)” English for Specific Purposes. Vol. 22, p. 223-247. See PDF File
  • • 2001 Salager-Meyer, F., and N. Zambrano. "The bittersweet rhetoric of controversiality in 19thand 20th century French and English medical literature" Journal of Historical Pragmatics. 2(1). Amsterdam. Benjamin. 141-175
  • • 2001 Salager-Meyer, F. "From self-highlightedness to self-effacement: a genre based study of the socio-pragmatic function of criticism in medical discourse" LSP and Professional Communication. 1(2), p. 63-84.
  • • 1996 Salager-Meyer, F, G. Defives and M. Hamelinsck "Epistemic modality in 19th and 20th century medical English written discourse: a principal component analysis." Interface. Journal of Applied Linguistics. 10(2). p. 163-199.
  • • 1994 Salager-Meyer, F. "Reading medical English abstracts: a genre study of the interaction between structural variables and the reader´s linguistico-conceptual competence (L2)." Journal of Research in Reading. 17(2). 120-146.
  • • 1994: Salager-Meyer, F. "Hedges and textual communicative function in medical English written discourse." English for Specific Purposes. 13(2), 149-171. See PDF File
  • • 1993: Salager-Meyer, F. "Reading expository prose at the post-secondary level: the influence of textual variables on L2 reading comprehension (a genre-based approach ). Reading in a Foreign Language. 8 (1). p. 645-661.
  • • 1992 Salager-Meyer, F. "A text-type and move analysis of verb tense and modality distribution in medical English abstracts." English for Specific Purposes. 11(2), p.93-115.
  • • 1991 Salager-Meyer, F. "Medical English abstracts: how well structured are they?" JASIS (Journal of the American Society for Information Science), 42 (7), p. 528-531.