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Los verbos recíprocos léxicos en los diccionarios: Polisemia y pronominalización
(Universidade da Coruña, 2018)En este artículo se presenta un análisis lexicográfico de un subgrupo de la clase de los verbos recíprocos léxicos del español, que en general ha sido muy poco estudiada. Concretamente hemos estudiado 49 verbos polisémicos ... -
Analysis of the production of pronominal constructions in Spanish in a learner corpus
(Equinox Publishing, 2018)It is a well-established fact that pronominal constructions are one of the most difficult areas for learners of Spanish as a second language (Tremblay, 2006, Toth, 2000). This study aims to contribute to the area of language ... -
Pet Sematary, or Stephen King Re-Appropriating the Frankenstein Myth
(Asociación Cultural Mentenebre, 2013)The horror bestseller writer Stephen King has been acknowledged for updating the fundamental motifs of the horror story to suit the taste of contemporary audiences. In his seminal work Danse Macabre (1981), devoted to ... -
Undocumented migration, informal economic work and peripheral multilingualism: challenges to neoliberal regimes?
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-06-01)This article investigates the intersections of spatial immobility and informal work among homeless Ghanaian migrants and how these interplay with their multilingual practices. By analysing personal-life narratives and ... -
Exploring the interplay of narrative and ethnography: A critical sociolinguistic approach to migrant stories of dis/emplacement
(De Gruyter, 2018-01-18)In this article I explore the benefits of interplaying narrative and ethnography for conducting a context-grounded, sociolinguistic analysis of the representational and interactional functions of migrant storytelling events ... -
Julia Twigg (2013). Fashion and Age. Dress, the Body and Later Life. London: Bloomsbury, 174 pp. ISBN 978 1 8748 8696 5 (paperback)
(Linköping University Electronic Press, 2015)Ressenya del llibre: Fashion and Age Dress, the Body and Later Life / Julia Twigg -
Anita Wohlmann (2014). Aged Young Adults. Age Readings of Contemporary American Novels and Films. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 261 pp. ISBN 978 3 8376 2483 0 (paperback)
(Linköping University Electronic Press, 2014)Ressenya del llibre: Aged Young Adults: Age Readings of Contemporary American Novels and Films / Anita Wohlmann -
Melissa Ames and Sarah Burcon (2016). How Pop Culture Shapes the Stages of a Woman’s Life. From Toddlers-In-Tiaras To Cougars-On-The Prowl. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137566171 (hardback)
(Linköping University Electronic Press, 2017)Ressenya del llibre: How Pop Culture Shapes the Stages of a Woman's Life: From Toddlers-in-Tiaras to Cougars-on-the-Prowl / Melissa Ames, Sarah Burcon -
Marketing university students as mobile multilingual workers: the emergence of neoliberal lifestylers
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-10-28)Under the conditions of the globalized new economy, European universities have become profit-making institutions. They envision students as mobile workers-to-be whose employability chances depend on self-enterprising and ... -
Transnational trajectories of multilingual workers: sociolinguistic approaches to emergent entrepreneurial selves
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“That Was Poe, The Great American Hack”: Retracing Echoes of Poe’s Gothic Tales in Stephen King’s The Shining
(Universidad de SevillaSpanish Association for American Studies (SAAS), 2018)Burton Pollin argues that, despite Edgar Allan Poe‟s evident legacy in Stephen King‟s fiction, Poe‟s influence on the writings of this author from Maine has often been overlooked and even ignored by Poe scholars. Pollin ... -
Nuevas categorizaciones sociales a través del habla: (In)migrantes en la era de la globalización en una localidad catalana semi-rural
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2010)Este estudio analiza nuevos modelos de categorización etnosocial de cuatro grupos de migrantes1 multilingües en una localidad catalana semi-rural. Se investiga cómo los antiguos modos de identificación social en un enclave ... -
Aportaciones de la etnografía de red al estudio de un locutorio: Hacia un cambio de paradigma metodológico
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2012)Este estudio analiza las aportaciones de la etnografía de red a la investigación de un grupo de migrantes multilingües que gestionan sus trayectorias transnacionales en torno a un locutorio de Barcelona. En primer lugar, ... -
Migrant identities in narrative practice: In-/out-group constructions of 'comrades' and 'rivals' in storytelling about transnational life
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2015-12-12)From an interpretive, post-structuralist perspective, this paper analyzes the discursive constructions of fluid migrant identities through the lens of narrative practice. I describe the presentations of the Self /the Other ... -
Migrant narratives of dis/emplacement: The alternative spatialization and ethnicization of the local urban floor
(De Gruyter, 2016-05-06)From a critical sociolinguistic approach, this paper analyzes the stories of place and locality which emerge during a series of narrative interviews conducted with a small group of Ghanaian migrants who, unsheltered, lived ... -
The Englishisation of higher education in Catalonia: a critical sociolinguistic ethnographic approach to the students' perspectives
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-03-23)This paper investigates the attitudes towards Englishisation displayed by 30 students enrolled in a Combined Languages degree, including English and another language, in a top-ranked bilingual university in Catalonia, where ... -
Foretelling darwinism, revising race : Poe's scientific discourse in "The murders in the rue Morgue"
(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de La Laguna, 2013)Having recently celebrated the bicentenary of Edgar Allan Poe’s birth, his tales still remain an invaluable source of ongoing interpretation. The first tale that conforms his detective trilogy, “The Murders in the Rue ... -
Migrants' minority-language newspeakerism: The pervasiveness of nation-state monolingual regimes in transnational contexts
(Wiley Online Library, 2018-01-10)From a critical sociolinguistics perspective, this paper investigates processes of minority-language newspeakerism among 23 migrants from heterogeneous socioeconomic and language backgrounds. Informants networked in a ... -
I speak small: unequal Englishes and transnational identities among Ghanaian migrants
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2018-02-15)This paper investigates language ideologies involving various nonstandard English-language practices among homeless Ghanaian migrants, and explores how these interplay with transnational identity management in Catalonia, ... -
In the Footsteps of Edward Bulwer-lytton's "Lucretia"Revisiting Victorian Popular Narratives of Madness
(Universidade de Vigo, 2012)The character of Bertha Mason in CharlotteBrontë’s Jane Eyrehas often been considered theparadigm of ‘the madwoman in the attic’; an archetypearising from Gothic domestic fictionthat would recur ...