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 ... -
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; ... -
Escriure és viure amb més intensitat: Conversa sobre la creativitat i el pas del temps amb Maria Barbal
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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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Explicit reflection upon language and codes-witching in EFL classroom discourse
(Universitat de Barcelona, 1997)The aim of this article is to describe the interactional and pedagogical relevante of episodes of explicit reflection upon language (i.e. the presence of metalinguistic and metacomunicative comenis) and code-switching ... -
Exploring Care through Alan Bennett's The lady in the van: extending meanings, encountering otherness
(Oxford University PressThe Gerontological Society of America, 2020)Background and Objectives: This article explores care relationships as they are represented within “The Lady in the Van,” a sequence of interconnected texts by English writer Alan Bennett. Research and Methods: By mainly ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
"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 ...