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Exhaustion: A History. By Anna Katharina Shaffner
(Modern Humanities Research Association, 2017-01-01)Ressenya del llibre: Exhaustion: A History / Anna Katharina Schaffner. Columbia University Press, 2016 -
Female Aging: Between Fiction and Real Life
(Taylor & Francis, 2009)Despite the exponential aging of worldwide population, and despite women still living longer than men, prejudicial negative stereotypes and cultural constructs attached to female aging come to the surface time and again ... -
The Loneliness of the Aging in Two Contemporary Novels
(Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America, 2014-04-28)Purpose of the Study: In The Loneliness of the Dying (1985), sociologist Norbert Elias claims that 'aging' and 'old age' have become frightening, almost taboo terms in Western society because death is increasingly made ... -
Demythologising Female Ageing through Narrative Transgression in Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger and Angela Carter's Wise Children
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)British contemporary novelists Penelope Lively and Angela Carter are well known for their contribution to narrative experimentation through which they challenged established cultural discourses in relation to gender and ... -
Neoliberal language policies and linguistic entrepreneurship in Higher Education: Lecturers' perspectives
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020)This paper analyzes English-Medium-Instruction (EMI) lecturers' orientations towards neoliberal language policies and linguistic entrepreneurship. The data includes interviews with six case-study lecturers' biographic ... -
Hidden language 'battles' in the diaspora: Linguistic identities and ideologies towards home and host languages among Pakistanis in Barcelona
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020-10-05)Following a critical sociolinguistics approach to language maintenance in the diaspora, this paper investigates interplaying linguistic identities and ideologies towards home and host languages among four case-study ... -
“Are you being serious, Frankenstein?” Transtextuality and Postmodern Tenets in Peter Ackroyd’s "The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein"
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2017)This article is grounded on the premise that the story behind Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus (1818) has acquired the status of a myth, which has been subjected to all sorts ... -
The Frontier as Masculine Territory: Sam Hawken’s The Dead Women of Juárez in Context
(The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), 2016)Contemporary adventure narratives—from westerns and war stories to thrillers and hard-boiled detective fictions—still insistently activate the myth of the frontier, which is offered as a space where men can achieve ... -
Annotating factuality in the TAGFACT corpus
(Comares, 2020)The author of a text states, either implicitly or explicitly, his/her commitment with respect to the certainty of the situation being narrated (i.e. its factual status according to the author’s stance). In the area of ... -
The TAGFACT annotator and editor: A versatile tool
(Asociación Española de Lingüística de Corpus / Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics, 2020-07-20)The multifunctional tool this paper presents has been developed within the TAGFACT project, a project that aims to automate the annotation of factuality -understood as the degree of commitment with which the writer presents ... -
Learning English in Catalonia: beliefs and emotions through small stories and iterativity
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2018)The aim of this study is to unveil English learners’ beliefs and emotions regarding the English language education received in Catalan schools. For that purpose, data from 5 focus groups with 31 university students have ... -
'The Great Good Place' No More? Integrating and Dismantling Oppositional Discourse in Some Recent Examples of Serial Killer Fiction
(The Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN), 2007)Serial killer narratives delight in portraying a gothic social landscape of pervasive and endemic crime, violence and evil in a postmodern context of apathy, indifference and institutional incompetence. In this paper I ... -
Dexter: Villain, hero or simply a man? The perpetuation of traditional masculinity in Dexter
(The Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN), 2010)The paper analyses how television series Dexter generates complicity with its serial killer protagonist, Dexter Morgan, not only by giving him a heroic edge that overrides the monstrosity of his crimes, but also by focusing ... -
Images of old age in YouTube: destabilizing stereotypes
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)This article presents an analysis of the most viewed YouTube videos under the labels ‘old age’, ‘older age’ and ‘senior citizens’. As powerful sources that transmit cultural information which either perpetuates or undermines ... -
Erasmus student mobility and the construction of European citizenship
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)The Erasmus student mobility programme allocates three explicit objectives to the experience of spending a few months studying in another European country: (1) to benefit students educationally, linguistically and culturally; ... -
Reciprocity for new migrant integration: resource conservation, investment and exchange
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)In this paper we bring a new perspective to the understanding of migrant integration. We focus on how new migrants use reciprocity to make and sustain connections. In turn, we identify integration resources accessed through ... -
Approaches to old age: perspectives from the twenty-first century
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Making political citizens? Migrants’ narratives of naturalization in the United Kingdom
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2018)Citizenship tests are arguably intended as moments of hailing, or interpellation, through which norms are internalized and citizen-subjects produced. We analyse the multiple political subjects revealed through migrants’ ... -
Young learners’ processing of multimodal input and its impact on reading comprehension: an eye-tracking study
(Cambridge University Press, 2020)Theories of multimedia learning suggest that learners can form better referential connections when verbal and visual materials are presented simultaneously. Furthermore, the addition of auditory input in reading-while-listening ... -
Deserving citizenship? Exploring migrants' experiences of the 'citizenship test' process in the United Kingdom
(Wiley, 2019)Since the early 2000s several European countries have introduced language and citizenship tests as new requirements for access to long‐term residence or naturalization. The content of citizenship tests has been often ...