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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 ... -
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 ... -
L2 reading and vocabulary development after a short Study Abroad experience
(Universidade de Vigo. Servicio de Publicacións, 2020)This study explores the development of L2 reading and vocabulary as a result of a short (3-week) SA experience. Given the growing literature on Study Abroad (SA) research, this investigation attempts to shed some light on ... -
Escriure és viure amb més intensitat: Conversa sobre la creativitat i el pas del temps amb Maria Barbal
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Is Manuela Carmena a politician? Spanish journalists and politicians in the spotlight
(Taylor and Francis, 2018)The purpose of this paper is to better understand how the participants involved in a specific radio interview use categorization to (re)produce a dominant discourse in the Spanish political arena. In this discourse, ... -
Aprendre anglès per parlar amb el món: reflexions al voltant de l'ensenyament de l'anglès com a llengua franca global
(Universitat de València, 2020)Aquest article explora les implicacions de la dimensió global de l’anglès com a llengua franca mundial a l’hora d’ensenyar aquesta llengua en el nostre entorn educatiu. S’hi argumenta la neces-sitat de transcendir el ... -
Revisiting Happiness and Well-Being in Later Life from Interdisciplinary Age-Studies Perspectives
(MDPI, 2019)Important demographic shifts and the so-called ‘longevity revolution’ have generated profound transformations in social interpretations of old age, an increased interest in age studies and new ideas on how to age well. ... -
Critical Approaches to Ageing Body Politics in the Works of Erica Jong
(MDPI, 2019)The ways we read our bodies and bodily transformations are deeply inscribed in cultural meanings that vary across different historical times and societies. Even if the desire to achieve culturally imposed beauty standards ... -
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 ... -
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 ...