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Editorial

Ibérica no. 16 is dedicated to the fond memory of Professor Enrique Alcaraz
Varó.

To open this issue, María Teresa Cabré, a scholar of international renown in
Terminology, elaborates on the interdisciplinarity of terminological units
from three levels of analysis (referential, cognitive, and linguistic or
semiotic). In this work, Cabré takes a step forward to introduce the
“polyhedricity principle” in view of gaining a better understanding of how
concepts and terms relate, and also, how the human mind represents objects
as specialised concepts.

Following this, Alcaraz-Ariza uses a socio-pragmatic approach to examine
the expressions of praise contained in a corpus of fifty book reviews
published in Spanish-written medical journals. Next, Orna focuses on the
lemmas “building” and “construction” to discuss the formal and semantic
profiles registered in a corpus of construction and architecture university
textbooks. Then, Hernández and Hernández illustrate the structural,
grammatical, rhetorical and metatextual features displayed by a body of
research papers belonging to four sub-areas within the field of Economics.
A last paper on discourse analysis is Porto and Pena’s study on the
metaphorical projections embodied by some phrasal verbs in both Medical
and Computer English.

Three translation-related issues put an end to the “research” sections. Firstly,
Yankova highlights the set of features and conditions pertaining to statutory
legislation and, more particularly, to EU directives. Secondly, Clouet adheres
to the notions “culture” and “intercultural” to provide a teaching framework
for potential implementation in Translation and Interpreting university
degrees. Lastly, Micic’s research note is more specific in scope and purpose
as she depicts Medical English instruction at Belgrade University from the
perspective of an enhanced and updated translation-based approach to
teaching and learning.

Five recently published works are discussed in this issue. Readers will find
details about the main features of Spanish for Specific Purposes in Calvi’s
and Sanz’s books reviewed by Felices and Terrádez, respectively. In a third
review, Piqué explores the clues to achieve effective communication through

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technical writing. Lastly, two collections of papers are discussed:
Skorczynska’s review focuses on specialised discourse at higher education
and professional contexts, and Guillén’s review on actual classroom practices
for enhancing teaching and research in ESP.

Following Ibérica’s regulations, the editorial board has been renewed. On the
one hand, I wouldd like to acknowledge the professional and thorough
reviewing work carried out by Guadalupe Aguado (Universidad Politécnica
de Madrid) and Carmen Pérez-Llantada (Universidad de Zaragoza)
throughout these years and wish them well in their future endeavours. On
the other, I would like to welcome new editorial members Victoria Guillén
Nieto (Universidad de Alicante) and Mª Ángeles Orts Llopis (Universidad de
Murcia). Finally, a word of gratitude to Anabel Borja Albi (Universitat Jaume
I, Castelló) and Mª Ángeles Orts Llopis (Universidad de Murcia) for their
assistance as external reviewers.

Ana Bocanegra Valle
Editor of Ibérica

Universidad de Cádiz (Spain)
ana.bocanegra@uca.es

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