Browsing Articles publicats (Anglès i Lingüística) by Title
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El català dels locutoris: pràctiques i ideologies lingüístiques de la migració en espais urbans castellanoparlants
(Institut d´Estudis Catalans. Societat Catalana de Sociolingüística, 2016-12)Des del camp de la sociolingüística crítica de base etnogràfica, aquest estudi investiga les pràctiques i ideologies lingüístiques entorn del català d'un grup de vint persones multilingües indocumentades que, provinents ... -
EMI Lecturer Training Programmes and Academic Literacies: A Critical Insight from ESP
(University of Belgrade, 2017)As EMI involves the integration of content and discipline-specific communication, this study focuses on intersections between ESP and EMI, especially on how ESP can contribute to improving discipline-specific communication ... -
Emphatic reciprocal expressions and symmetric verbs in spanish: an empirical analysis
(Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2016-10-25)In this paper we present a descriptive study on the compatibility of emphatic reciprocal expressions with Spanish lexical reciprocal (or symmetric) verbs. Since lexical reciprocal verbs express reciprocity intrinsically, ... -
Englishisation at a global space: students and staff making sense of language choices
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2016-04-13)Aquest estudi parteix de la premissa que la mobilitat acadèmica internacional contribueix al desenvolupament de les identitats plurilingües dels estudiants i que les universitats receptores d'aquesta mobilitat que tenen ... -
Establishing semantic oppositions for the typification of predicates
(Editorial Educatori, 1999)In this article we present our conception of diathesis alternations and how they intervene in the definition of a model of lexical entries. We consider that diathesis alternations are the syntactic realizations of oppositions ... -
Europeanised Americans and Americanised Europeans: (Re)Envisioning Henry James’ Daisy Miller and Washington Square within Transatlantic Studies
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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 ... -
Female Ageing: Revising Reifungsroman in Doris Lessing's The Summer Before the Dark and Love, Again
(Universidad de Almería, 2015-03-10)The ageing process is usually perceived as a time of loss and decline, especially for women. The first signs of ageing are shown in the external body. In Western societies, wrinkles, white hair, impending falling jaws and ... -
"Finding another face inside my face" : the semiotics of mime in Edgar Nkosi White's racialized dramaturgies
(Universidad de Zaragoza, 2008)According to Tadeusz Kowzan, facial mime may be regarded as the system of kinetic signs that is closest to verbal expression. At the same time, as Kowzan contends, mime constitutes together with gesture the most personal ... -
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 ... -
Forever Young: Consumer Culture and the Ageing Body in Hanif Kureishi's 'The Body'
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From "Sorry very much" to "I'm ever so sorry:" Acquisitional patterns in L2 apologies by Catalan learners of English
(Walter de Gruyter, 2007)This paper analyzes the acquisitional stages of L2 apology realizations in response to discourse completion tasks produced in a cross-sectional study by 78 Catalan learners of English at three di¤erent proficiency levels. ... -
From Boys to Men in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Pelham and Horatio Alger's Struggling Upward : The Dandy and the Self-Made Man Coming of Age
(Área de Publicaciones de la Universidad de León, 2008)En la Inglaterra victoriana y la América decimonónica, las narraciones de aventuras se convirtieron en un género privilegiado para inculcar determinados valores a los chicos jóvenes. A pesar de la supuesta universalidad ... -
From pathology to invisibility: age identity as a cultural construct in vampire fiction
(Universidad de Alicante, Departamento de Filología Inglesa, 2014)A diachronic analysis of the way the literary vampire has been characterised from the Victorian era up to the contemporary period underlines a clear evolution that seems particularly relevant from the perspective of ageing ... -
Growing up through silence: instances of Transatlantic female constraint in Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting
(University of Valladolid. Department of English, 2006)Anita Desai's novel Anita Desai's novel Fasting, Feasting portrays transatlantic experiences of female constraint on both sides of the Atlantic. Despite the prevalent differences characterising the Indian and American ... -
‘He comes back badder and bigger than ever!’: Adapting the masculine and negotiating the feminine in treasure-hunting adventure narratives
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2001)Over the last decades, genre fiction has witnessed the invasion of a host of female authors writing from a self-consciously feminist perspective who have shaken the structural and ideological foundations of genres such as ... -
¿Heroínas o víctimas? La mujer detective en la ficción criminal
(Universidade de Vigo, 2011)El artículo analiza los cambios en la representación de la mujer detective en la ficción escrita, el cine y la televisión en un entorno postfeminista en el que, supuestamente, los roles de género patriarcales han sido ... -
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, ... -
Ideologies on multilingual practices at a rural Catalan school
(Equinox publishing, 2009)This ethnographic study analyses ideologies on multilingualism and attitudes toward cultural diversity in a rural Catalan school located in a semirural locality which is undergoing a series of changes linked to the dynamics ...