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Many critics of Doctorow have classified him as a postmodernist writer, acknowledging that a wide number of thematic and stylistic features of his early fiction emanate from the postmodern context in which he took his first steps as a writer. Yet, these novels have an eminently social and ethical scope that may be best perceived in their intellectual engagement and support of feminist concerns. This is certainly the case of Doctorow’s fourth and most successful novel, Ragtime. The purpose of...

In the early nineteenth century, Noah Webster proclaimed the existence of an American voice, distinct from the British one from which it originated. But was there really a single American voice? Could there be American voices? This paper examines the possibility of a multiplicity of voices. The main stage is New Orleans, although not the musical stage as might be expected. In early American New Orleans, indeed, travelers and sojourners described the city through its sounds, always qualified as...

The performance project (Dis)Embodied Voices documented and vivified long-forgotten Early American black women’s experiences by devising a living historiography from personal letters, memoirs, diaries, court records, poems, and newspapers. The nine original monologues became the play I Will Speak for Myself, which recovers sixteen women who lived between 1649 and 1865 from Vermont to New Orleans. By crafting performance through a rigorous investment in the historical evidence and a commitment...

This article analyses how Anzaldúa uses language intersections to underline the hybridity of Chicano women in Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987). It starts by reflecting on how Anzaldúa exposes the use of language as a source of segregation and bias in the dominant society, as well as among Chicanos themselves, as the author reveals a connection between linguistic oppression and patriarchal values. Then it focuses on the way Anzaldúa uses language in her work in order to validate...

Songs are part of a long tradition of dissent and struggle in American culture since the seventeenth century. In the twentieth century, this tradition is well illustrated by the Freedom Songs of the 1960s civil rights movement, a distinctive feature of the struggle for black freedom in the South. Freedom songs were used within and outside the movement to sustain as well as to publicize the struggle. The present article analyzes the nature and function of those songs, demonstrating that they...

Salsa music is a Pan-Latino form of cultural expression born of an American experience. While its roots are varied—primarily but not exclusively Cuban and Puerto Rican, it mixes tradition and innovation, privileging mixture. Although much has been written about Salsa in the last fifteen years, the contributions of women as performers have been large ignored. This paper attempts to fill in that gap by arguing that Salsa, as an American music, was enriched by early contributions of two female...

This paper explores the sounds of the Tejano community, and probe to what extent the musical production of a given ethnic group is constitutive of a global American sound, or if on the contrary, it serves to foster the interests and the leverage of the said group, unraveling in the process the very notion of a unified American culture. The study is based on the work of Michael Ramos, founder and leader of the influential band Charanga Cakewalk, a Tejano musician with typically strong roots both...

Although Henry James was always alert to speech and dialogue, his achievement derives largely from the study of human psychology and character, and he is often perceived as a “writer of thought.” The essence of Jamesian style has found an apt correlative in musical discourse and, more specifically, in the language and conventions of opera. James’ The Turn of the Screw evidences an interest in the physical qualities of characters’ speech and recurrently resorts to musical or performative imagery...

Music dominates Kate Chopin’s literature but in her most acclaimed novel, The Awakening, it becomes a powerful leitmotif that evokes transformation, awareness and initiation. In various ways, Chopin emphasizes the emotional power of music and Edna Pontellier’s awakening is accompanied by music throughout the novel. Nevertheless, critics have surprisingly ignored the decisive role music has in the novel as a sensorial structure and synaesthetic channel in Edna’s rebirth as a new woman in the...

This essay provides a revision of North American sound poetry from the perspective of the digital culture. In an effort to describe the role that sound plays in digital literature creations, we have tried to find points of suture between the practitioners of sound poetry of different decades and the contemporary practices of sound and digital poetry. The main objective is to establish a relation between these poetic genres, as they both emphasize the aural dimension as well as challenge...

Following and contributing to the ongoing shift from more structuralist, system-oriented to more pragmatic, socio-cultural oriented anglicism research, this paper verifies to what extent the global spread of English affects naming patterns in Flanders. To this end, a diachronic database of first names is constructed, containing the top 75 most popular boy and girl names from 2005 until 2014. In a first step, the etymological background of these names is documented and the evolution in...

Numerous studies have found a positive connection between learners’ motivation towards foreign language and foreign language achievement. The present study examines the role of motivation in receptive vocabulary breadth (size) of two groups of Spanish learners of different ages, but all with 734 hours of instruction in English as a Foreign Language (EFL): a CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) group in primary education and a non-CLIL (or EFL) group in secondary education. Most...

This paper reports the findings from a study of the learning of English intonation by Spanish speakers within the discourse mode of L2 oral presentation. The purpose of this experiment is, firstly, to compare four prosodic parameters before and after an L2 discourse intonation training programme and, secondly, to confirm whether subjects, after the aforementioned L2 discourse intonation training, are able to match the form of these four prosodic parameters to the discourse-pragmatic function of...

CLIL instruction has been reported to be beneficial for foreign language vocabulary learning since CLIL students show higher vocabulary profiles than students of their same age in traditional EFL contexts. However, to our knowledge, the receptive vocabulary knowledge of CLIL and non-CLIL learners at the end of primary and secondary education has not been examined yet. Hence, this study aims at comparing the receptive vocabulary size 79 CLIL primary learners with the receptive vocabulary...

The year 1977 saw the making of the first Latino superhero by a Latino artist. From the 1980s onwards it is also possible to find Latina super-heroines, whose number and complexity has kept increasing ever since. Yet, the representations of spandexed Latinas are still few. For that reason, the goal of this paper is, firstly, to gather a great number of Latina super-heroines and, secondly, to analyze the role that they have played in the history of American literature and art. More specifically...

This article argues that The Toughest Indian in the World (2000) by Native-American author Sherman Alexie combines elements of his tribal (oral) tradition with others coming from the Western (literary) short-story form. Like other Native writers — such as Momaday, Silko or Vizenor — , Alexie is seen to bring into his short fiction characteristics of his people’s oral storytelling that make it much more dialogical and participatory. Among the author’s narrative techniques reminiscent of the oral...

Inserted in the ongoing discussion about the post-9/11 cultural archive, this paper analyzes the TV series Person of Interest (CBS, 2011–2016), created by Jonathan Nolan, through Frank Furedi’s theories about the discursive formation of fear as presented in his texts Politics of Fear. Beyond Left and Right (2005), Invitation to Terror. The Expanding Empire of the Unknown (2007), The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is the ‘Culture of Fear’ Itself (2007), and Precautionary Culture and the Rise of...

Taking into consideration Hayden White’s seminal argument about historical emplotment, and relating such notion to traditional explanations about the ritualistic structure of Tudor historiography, this article reassesses Chistopher Marlowe’s Edward II (ca. 1592) from the perspective of genre in order to expose how the play counter-effects the dominant ideology of the Tudor regime concerning royal authority. The encodation of historical events into the icon of romance, and the dramatic...

In this essay, the various lines of Shakespeare that involve philosophical and “pre-scientific” notions about imagination are analysed, showing how often the technical knowledge and theoretical features of specialized issues underlie his words in a more diverse and sophisticated way than frequently supposed. Certainly, some of those ancient learned opinions on fantasy were previously assimilated into European and English poetic tradition that in turn are taken up and transfigured by the Bard....

A common approach to Irish theatre during the last years has been the identification of the interest by the playwrights in rewriting, adapting or translating Greek tragedies. This article examines Euripides’ Hecuba by Frank McGuinness (2004) and Marina Carr (2015) from a comparative approach and emphasizes the revision and redemption of the figure of the queen of Troy in the hands of both Irish contemporary playwrights. From this perspective, a new image of Hecuba is suggested which adds to the...

South African novelist J.M. Coetzee has often been accused of refusing to engage with socio-political conflicts that mark his society. This paper will frame and analyse representation and conceptualization of history in Coetzee’s post-apartheid novels—Disgrace (2000) and Elizabeth Costello (2003). The central argument will be that, far from ignoring historical struggles and developments, Coetzee’s work engages with and encodes the same by using the grammar of novelistic discourse, which it...

War and its aftermaths are at the kernel of The Memory of Love, yet, rather than only dwelling on loss and suffering, the novel explores the enabling possibilities of emotion, and love in particular, as the title suggests, through the lenses of characters who are survivors or witnesses of the devastating civil war in Sierra Leone. In this article, I shall argue that Forna’s novel encourages the reader who has not experienced first-hand such distressing events to recognize the emotional spaces..., La guerra y sus consecuencias están en el centro de The Memory of Love. Sin embargo, en lugar de detenerse únicamente en la pérdida y el sufrimiento, la novela explora las posibilidades de las emociones, y del amor en particular (como sugiere el título), a través de personajes supervivientes o testigos de la devastadora guerra civil en Sierra Leona. En este artículo sostengo que la novela de Forna invita al público lector que no ha experimentado eventos tan angustiantes en primera persona a...

The present study analyses the errors identified in the written argumentative texts of 304 Spanish university students of English taken from two different corpora –one from a technical university context and the other from learners enrolled in the Humanities. Considered an important design criterion for computer learner corpora studies, the metadata of the students’ was recorded and their competence levels were measured using the Oxford Quick Placement Test. The scores obtained (0 to 60) were...

This article analyzes the ways in which Queer Chicano poet Francisco X. Alarcón presents the interplay of family, sexuality, and heritage in his poetry. Three poems are analyzed: “Cuarto oscuro/Dark Room”, “Mi padre/My Father”, and “Una pequeña gran victoria/A Small but Fateful Victory”. In these pieces, Alarcón negotiates his own identity as an ‘Other’ of the Chicano Community by emphasizing the performative nature of masculinity and femininity. In so doing, he provides an insight into the..., Este artículo analiza las maneras en las que el poeta queer chicano Francisco X. Alarcón representa las interacciones entre la familia, la sexualidad y la herencia cultural en su poesía. En este artículo, presento el análisis de tres poemas: “Cuarto oscuro/Dark Room,” “Mi padre/My Father,” y “Una pequeña gran victoria/A Small but Fateful Victory.” En estas obras, Alarcón negocia su identidad como un ‘Otro’ de la comunidad chicana, enfatizando la naturaleza performativa de la masculinidad y...

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 of adaptations that have ensured its current popularity. Looking into Frankenstein as a romantic text with certain traits that forestall postmodern theories, this study approaches Peter Ackroyd’s novel The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein (2008) as a postmodern adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic..., Este artículo se basa en la premisa de que la historia detrás de la novela Frankenstein; o el moderno Prometeo (1818), de Mary Shelley, ha adquirido el estatus de mito, el cual ha sido objeto de todo tipo de adaptaciones que han asegurado su popularidad actual. Partiendo del supuesto de que Frankenstein es un texto romántico con ciertos rasgos que anticipan las teorías posmodernas, este estudio estima que la novela de Peter Ackroyd, El diario de Víctor Frankenstein, es una adaptación posmoderna...

More than thirty years after the term was coined by David Rosewarne (1984), linguists have not come anywhere near to agreeing on a linguistically sound definition of the concept of ‘Estuary English’ (EE). Nevertheless, the term has come to stay. According to John Wells (2013), “we can now expect to be readily understood if we describe someone's speech as ‘estuarial’”. In this paper, I will argue that ‘Estuary English’ is the name for a heuristic conceived of and popularized by linguistic...

This paper on Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy-Man intends to undertake a comprehensive investigation of various forms of gendered violence during the partition of India. An analysis of the central female figure of Ayah underscores how acts of abduction and rape use woman’s sexuality as a tool to articulate religious/national enmity. Moreover, the paper will claim that Ayah’s abduction can be read as a punishment for her lack of adherence to cultural norms, which was expected from women during..., Este artículo sobre Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy-Man apunta a ofrecer una investigación general sobre varias formas de violencia de género durante la partición de India.  El análisis de Ayah. el personaje principal femenino, subraya el hecho de que actos de rapto y violación utilizaron la sexualidad de la mujer para intrumentalizar una enemistad nacional y religiosa. Además de esto, este artículo propone que el rapto de Ayah puede ser interpretado como un castigo por su falta del compromiso con las...

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding about the processing of syntax in the brain and/or mind of speakers. The focus is specifically on the neural signature of the processing of tense features and of agreement features on the one hand, and on the neural signature of the stage that argua-bly antecedes the processing of tense features and of agreement features on the other. Neuroimaging studies of the last two decades or so have come to establish that parts of the left..., El objetivo de este trabajo es intentar contribuir al conocimiento del procesamiento de la sintaxis que tendría lugar en el cerebro y/o mente de los hablantes. El trabajo se centra, por una parte, en el correlato neuronal del procesamiento de los rasgos de tiempo y de los rasgos de concordancia, y por otra, en el correlato o actividad neuronal que  presumiblemente tiene lugar previamente al citado procesamiento de rasgos de tiempo y de rasgos de concordancia. Los estudios de neuroimagen...

In God Help the Child, Toni Morrison’s latest novel, set in our contemporary times, her oeuvre seems to have come full circle when she revisits the main themes she dealt with in The Bluest Eye, child abuse and aesthetics relativism. Like her prime novel, her latest narrative is a modern-day fairy tale, a re-interpretation of Hans Christian Andersen’s story “The Ugly Duckling”. Morrison shows how destructive hegemonic female beauty standards and materialistic values are for black females. Lula..., En God Help the Child, la última novela de Toni Morrison, ambientada en nuestra época, su obra parece cerrar un círculo cuando la escritora re-examina los principales temas de su primera novela, The Bluest Eye, abusos infantiles y el relativismo estético. Como su primera novela, su última narrativa es un cuento de hadas moderno, una reinterpretación de la historia de Hans Christian Andersen, “El patito feo.” Morrison muestra el efecto destructivo de los cánones hegemónicos de belleza femenina...

Published in the late spring of 1937 as a literary journalism piece and included in Martha Gellhorn’s second volume of short fiction, Heart of Another (1941), “Zoo in Madrid” poses engaging questions about the journalist’s role as a war correspondent in the Spanish Civil War and her allegedly objective reportage method. In the following article, I propose to decode some of the elusive symbols of the story, built up on Hemingway’s iceberg principle of writing, in connection with its propaganda..., Publicado bien avanzada la primavera de 1937 como un breve ejercicio de periodismo literario e incluido en el segundo volumen de relatos de la autora ("El corazón de otro" 1941), "Zoo en Madrid" plantea cuestiones fascinantes sobre el papel del corresponsal de guerra en el conflicto del 36 y el discutible ideal de objetividad como fin primordial del reportero. En este artículo mi propósito es interpretar algunos de los símbolos huidizos del relato, construido según el...

This paper aims to analyze the institutional development process of accountability institutions in Brazil. Scholars have identified an incremental development process of horizontal accountability institutions in Brazil, stimulating an important process in democracy. Our argument is that the incremental development process of accountability institutions was not followed by systemic developments able to encompass all accountability institutions. The reason for this is that, in spite of..., Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar el proceso de desarrollo institucional de las instituciones de rendición de cuentas en Brasil. Los académicos han identificado un proceso de desarrollo incremental de las instituciones de rendición de cuentas horizontal en Brasil, estimulando un proceso importante en la democracia. Nuestro argumento es que el proceso de desarrollo incremental de las instituciones de rendición de cuentas no fue seguido por desarrollos sistémicos capaces de abarcar todas...

The transformation of the Welfare State is not a standardized response to globalization or a by-product of European Union policies, but rather ‘what parties make of it’ (Burgoon, 2006). Different welfare regimes and welfare cultures contribute to the maintenance of diverse national responses to global and regional integration in terms of their public welfare systems, but there are also meso-level variables, such as parties’ ideologies, that may have an impact on the volume and distribution of..., La transformación del Estado de bienestar no es una respuesta estandarizada a la globalización o un producto secundario de las políticas de la Unión Europea, sino “lo que los partidos consiguen” (Burgoon, 2006). Los diferentes regímenes y culturas de bienestar contribuyen al mantenimiento de respuestas nacionales diferenciadas a la integración global y regional en términos de sus sistemas públicos de bienestar. Pero variables de nivel meso, como la ideología de los partidos, pueden asimismo...

The main objective of this research study is to offer a systematic analysis of consent in the processing of personal data of minors under the General Data Protection Regulation and the Organic Law on the Protection of Personal Data and the Guarantee of Digital Rights. This is the fundamental legal basis for dissecting the essential contours of the electronic signature as the most suitable instrument for guaranteeing the provision of this consent, placing special emphasis on the singularities..., El objetivo principal del presente estudio de investigación consiste en ofrecer un análisis sistemático del consentimiento en aquellos tratamientos de datos personales de menores de edad al amparo del Reglamento general de protección de datos y en la Ley Orgánica de Protección de Datos Personales y de Garantía de Derechos Digitales. Y ello como base jurídica fundamental para diseccionar los contornos esenciales de la firma electrónica como instrumento más idóneo para garantizar la prestación de...

This paper tackles whether it is possible to identify cognitive biases that foster environmental concern among public opinion. In particular, the study focuses on the mere exposure effect. Regression analysis was conducted on data concerning Spain and Italy to test the hypotheses that (1) exposing individuals to proenvironmental stimuli in the form of physical natural environments or recycling policies and (2) belonging to younger generations today is associated with a greater extent of..., El presente estudio busca investigar si los sesgos cognitivos – en particular, el de la mera exposición – puedan promover preocupación ambiental entre la opinión pública. Se llevó a cabo un análisis de regresión a partir de datos concernientes España e Italia para averiguar si (1) la exposición de individuos a estímulos proambientales en forma de ambientes físicos naturales o políticas públicas de reciclaje y (2) el pertenecer a las nuevas generaciones hodiernas estuvieran asociados a una mayor...

BomGay is the major stage that the Indian English writer Raj Rao chooses in his literary work to represent the gay performances in Bombay. BomGay becomes an epitome of gay culture in India, which has to find its own (in)visible ways to survive, even today, when the oppressive section of the Indian Penal Code, 377, is still used to punish those who express their alternative sexualities. This paper examines the rich artistic performances of the gay underworld narrated in Rao’s fictional city of..., BomGay es el principal escenario que el escritor indio, Raj Rao, elije en su obra literaria para representar al colectivo gay en Bombay. BomGay se convierte en un ejemplo de la cultura gay en India, que tiene que encontrar sus propias formas (in)visibles para sobrevivir, incluso hoy en día en que la sección 377 del Código Penal indio está todavía vigente y se utiliza para castigar a quienes expresan una sexualidad alternativa. Este artículo examina la riqueza artística de la subcultura gay que...

The main objective of this study is to highlight the need to advise students to revise their online written productions to avoid the incorrect use of forms which differ from their L1. In order to do so, this paper explores a specific error: misuse of the initialism ‘ICT’. Even though the analysis deals with this term, the conclusion can be applied to similar cases. The subjects are university students who use English as a vehicular language in the classroom but who have very different levels of..., El objetivo principal de este estudio es que los alumnos sean conscientes de la necesidad de revisar sus escritos en línea para evitar el uso incorrecto de formas que difieran de su L1. Para ello, este artículo explora un error concreto: el uso incorrecto de las siglas “ICT”. Aunque el análisis se ocupe de este término, las conclusiones pueden aplicarse a casos semejantes. Los sujetos son estudiantes universitarios que usan el inglés como idioma vehicular en el aula pero que presentan distintos...

We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962) is a contemporary Gothic Novel in which women appear as both villains and victims, subverting the traditional characterization of women in classic Gothic Fiction. The apparently innocent and selfless Constance and the young Mary Kate live isolated and absolutely dedicated to housewifery. Due to the recurrent presence of food in the novel and drawn by the significance of its omnipresence, the purpose of this article is to discuss the symbolic meaning of..., We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962) es una novela gótica contemporánea en la que las mujeres son a la vez víctimas y villanas, invirtiendo así la representación tradicional de las mujeres en la ficción Gótica clásica. La supuestamente inocente y desinteresada Constance y la joven Mary Kate, viven aisladas y totalmente dedicadas a los quehaceres del hogar. Debido a la repetitiva presencia de la comida en la novela y llevado por su ubicuidad, el propósito de este artículo es debatir sus...

Gender stereotypes, understood as those structured sets of beliefs about personal attributes of women and men, have a great influence over self-perspective and the social interaction and organisation. However, their effects are sometimes invisible, and a great effort should be made to develop awareness of their influence in the population. Our main claim is that School has an essential role to teach gender and sexual equality through the curricula, using teaching materials that are free of..., Los estereotipos de género, entendidos como el conjunto de creencias sobre los atributos personales de mujeres y hombres, ejercen una influencia importante sobre la autoperspectiva y la interacción y organización en nuestra sociedad. Sin embargo, sus efectos son a veces invisibles, y desarrollar una conciencia sobre su influencia en la población requiere un gran esfuerzo. Nuestro argumento primordial consiste en que la Escuela tiene un papel esencial a la hora de enseñar sobre la igualdad de...

Linguistic prescriptivism is an ideology and authority based practice that has traditionally vindicated the use of norms of language as social conventions on correctness, appropriateness, aesthetics and validity, also affecting media language. The aim of this paper is to explore the theoretical underpinnings of the Script Design model, which underlines the need to consider not only responsive and even initiative based performance, but also the script or use of a professional voice, as part of..., El prescriptivismo lingüístico es una práctica autoritaria a la vez que ideológica que tradicionalmente ha defendido el uso de normas de la lengua como convenciones sociales sobre la corrección, propiedad, estética y validez, afectando igualmente al lenguaje de los medios de comunicación. El objetivo del presente trabajo es explorar los fundamentos teóricos del modelo de Diseño de Guion, que sugiere la necesidad de considerar al guion o uso de una voz profesional como parte de las restricciones...

Irish writer Brian O’Nolan, better known as Flann O’Brien (1911-1966), among other pseudonyms, published At Swim-Two-Birds, his first novel, in 1939. Early reviewers and contemporary critics alike have hailed it as a metafictional masterpiece, relevant for its mise en abyme narrative structure, lawless characters and mock-epic bravado. However, little attention has been devoted to how such an innovative design was originally conceived by its author in the first place. This article holds the..., El escritor irlandés Brian O’Nolan, mejor conocido como Flann O’Brien (1911-1966), entre otros pseudónimos, publicó su primera novela, At Swim-Two-Birds, en 1939. Tanto los críticos de la época como los actuales han recibido la novela como una obra maestra de la metaficción, relevante por su uso de la estructura narrativa mise en abyme, además de destacar sus anárquicos personajes y su bravuconería en parodiar el género épico. No obstante, se ha prestado poca atención a cómo diseñó el autor un...

Language, a central device in social domains, began from somewhere; and it has witnessed unstoppable development. The growing behaviour influenced this study with a goal to appraise the contributions of advertising in Nigeria to the development of English. Thus, thirty-two creative-cum-new lexicons of MTN® and Etisalat® served as analytical data. Morphological tools of derivation, compounding and blending assisted in processing the formation of novel words. The study revealed that the..., El lenguaje, un dispositivo central en los dominios sociales, tuvo su origen en algún lugar y ha sido testigo de un desarrollo imparable. Este creciente desarrollo ha influido en este estudio con el objetivo de evaluar las contribuciones de la publicidad en Nigeria al desarrollo del inglés. Así, se han usado como datos analíticos treinta y dos léxicos creativos y nuevos de MTN® y Etisalat®. Las herramientas morfológicas de derivación, composición y mezcla ayudaron a procesar la formación de...

While the arbitrariness of the sign has occupied a central space in linguistic theory for a century, counter-evidence to this basic tenet has been mounting. Recent findings from cross-linguistic studies on spoken languages have suggested that, contrary to purely arbitrary distributions of phonological content, languages often exhibit systematic and regular phonological and sub-phonological patterns of form-meaning mappings. To date, studies of distributional tendencies of this kind have not..., Aunque la arbitrariedad del signo lingüístico ha ocupado un lugar destacado en la teoría lingüística del último siglo, evidencias contrarias a este principio lingüístico no han parado de crecer. Los hallazgos recientes de estudios interlingüísticos sobre lenguas orales sugieren que, al contrario que las distribuciones de contenido fonológico puramente arbitrarias, las lenguas normalmente muestran patrones sistemáticos y regulares de relaciones de forma-significado fonológicos y subfonológicos....

This study, which is part of a larger study on the use of frame semantics in the translation of cultural elements from Arabic into English, isolates the instances where the characters from two modern Egyptian novels use language to identify themselves as members of a particular religious group, which corresponds to the frame generic→faith, and examines the manner in which these instances are translated into English. In this sense, faith is a generic frame because it dictates a particular set of..., Este estudio, que forma parte de un análisis más extenso sobre el uso de la semántica de marcos en la traducción de elementos culturales del árabe al inglés, extrae las situaciones en que los personajes de dos novelas egipcias modernas utilizan el lenguaje para identificarse como miembros de un grupo religioso en particular (lo que corresponde al marco genérico→ fe), y examina la traducciones al inglés de estos casos. En este sentido, la fe es un marco genérico porque dicta un conjunto...

Few essential concepts have been so much debated as ‘language’; its definition opens the way to the development of new linguistic schools, approaches, etcetera. In this discussion, the Western views on language are taken for granted, as the only point of departure which guarantees and renders possible a scientifically sound science of language. The non-Western conceptualisations of language are very seldom mentioned in mainstream linguistic discussions and when they are, it is mainly as..., Hay pocos conceptos esenciales tan debatidos como el de ‘lenguaje’: su definición abre el camino al desarrollo de nuevas escuelas lingüísticas, nuevos enfoques, etcétera. En este debate, se da por sentado que las perspectivas occidentales sobre el lenguaje son el único punto de partida que pueda garantizar una base científica sólida. Las conceptualizaciones del lenguaje en culturas no occidentales rara vez son mencionadas en los grandes debates lingüísticos y, cuando lo son, es solo en tanto...

This paper aims to report a podcasting study case while interrogating how useful it can be in the makings of an EFL classroom with positive learning outcomes. It is applied research in 1º E.S.O that operates on the main working hypothesis that there is a significant positive correlation between the use of podcasting and student’s engagement. Likewise, it seeks to preclude the notion that podcasts are a cure-all practice to undesirable learning outcomes. I shall draw from two sources of data to..., Este artículo se propone presentar un estudio de caso con podcasts mientras cuestiona su utilidad y resultados del aprendizaje positivos en la configuración del aula de inglés como idioma extranjero. Se trata de una investigación aplicada en 1.º E.S.O que funciona sobre la principal hipótesis de trabajo de que existe una correlación positiva significativa entre el uso de los podcasts y la participación de los estudiantes. Del mismo modo, intenta evitar la falacia de que los podcasts sean la...

This paper reports on a case study of the language acquisition of two children through intensive exposure and subsequent language loss after the immersion period. The informants experienced intensive language development through immersion in a new language (English) over a period of eight months. One of the main features under analysis is the fact that at the time of immersion one of the informants had developed no literacy skills in the mother tongue due to his early age (3.5), whereas the..., Este artículo presenta un estudio de caso en el desarrollo lingüístico de dos niños mediante exposición continuada en un contexto de inmersión, y la consiguiente pérdida del lenguaje una vez concluida dicha inmersión. Los informantes tuvieron una experiencia de exposición continuada mediante inmersión en una lengua nueva para ellos (inglés) durante un periodo de ocho meses. Una de las principales características analizadas es el hecho de que al inicio de la inmersión uno de los sujetos no había...

Recipes, which have a primary instructional focus, are frequently encountered in scientific texts in the English vernacular written in all periods of the language. Research on recipes in English historical texts has mostly accounted for the linguistic and the structural patterns that they show, often intending to characterising not only recipes themselves, but also the type of text that includes them and/or the potential audience of the text. In line with this research, this article focuses on..., Las recetas, que son textos de tipo fundamentalmente instruccional, aparecen de forma habitual en los textos científicos escritos en inglés en todas las épocas. La investigación realizada hasta la fecha sobre las recetas en textos históricos ha centrado su atención en los patrones lingüísticos y estructurales que las caracterizan, normalmente con el objetivo de definir no solo las propias recetas, sino también el tipo de texto donde aparecen y el público potencial del texto. En línea con esta...

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” has received a great deal of scholarly attention over the years from a variety of perspectives, not least the domestic and symbolic presence of Pluto in the story. Kent Ljungquist (1980) saw Poe’s narrative in terms of classical literary tradition, specifically the notion of the daemonic, yet confined his study to Pluto’s demonic features, arguing that the cat may be an infernal spirit sent to castigate the narrator. Other studies, such as Clark Moreland and..., “The Black Cat" de Edgar Allan Poe ha recibido la atención académica a lo largo de los años desde una variedad de perspectivas, entre otras la presencia doméstica y simbólica de Plutón en la historia. Kent Ljungquist (1980) vio la narrativa de Poe en términos de la tradición literaria clásica, específicamente la noción de lo demoníaco, pero limitó su estudio a las características demoníacas de Plutón, argumentando que el gato puede ser un espíritu infernal enviado para castigar al narrador...

This article offers a comparative reading of two neo-historical novels: Rose Tremain’s The Colour and Maxine Alterio’s Ribbons of Grace, both set in 19th century New Zealand and portraying interracial love stories between British and Chinese characters in the context of the gold rush. I read these neo-historical novels in relation to the romantic conventions they simultaneously employ and subvert. My contention is that their manipulation of certain romantic narrative and thematic conventions..., Este artículo realiza un análisis comparativo de dos novelas neo-históricas The Colour, de Rose Tremain y Ribbons of Grace, de Maxine Alterio. Ambas novelas se sitúan en la Nueva Zelanda del siglo XIX y narran relaciones interraciales de amor entre personajes británicos y chinos con el trasfondo de la fiebre del oro. Mi lectura se centra en demostrar cómo estas novelas neo-históricas emplean y subvierten simultáneamente convenciones de la novela romántica. Mi argumento principal es que la...

The essay analyses Juan Ramón Jiménez’s reading of Walt Whitman as an aristocrat. For Jiménez, aristocracy is not a term associated with nobility. Instead, it is related to the intellectual effort that a poet – or any person – makes to improve himself, while at the same time maintaining ties with the folk. Jiménez wrote on Whitman in Alerta and El Modernismo. Apuntes de un curso and mentioned him in other essays and lectures. For Jiménez who used the American poet to foreground his own poetics..., El artículo analiza la lectura que Juan Ramón Jiménez hace de Walt Whitman como aristócrata. Ha de notarse que en Jiménez el término aristocracia no va asociado con el de nobleza. Por el contrario, lo asocia al esfuerzo intelectual del poeta que lo obliga a una mejora continua al tiempo que lo liga a lo popular. Jiménez escribió sobre Whitman en Alerta y en El Modernismo. Apuntes de un curso, además de mencionarlo en otros ensayos y conferencias. Jiménez utilizó al poeta americano como modelo...

One of the main objectives of Natural Language Processing is the simulation of natural language understanding. Within the applications designed for this purpose today, ARTEMIS follows the paradigm of unification grammars (Sag, I., Wasow, T. & Bender, E. 2003), and unlike other trending computational resources, it is theoretically grounded in linguistic models like RRG (Van Valin & LaPolla 1997 and Van Valin 2005), whose linking algorithm lies at the basis of the parsing process..., Uno de los principales objetivos del PLN es la simulación de la comprensión del lenguaje natural. Entre las aplicaciones diseñadas para tal fin, ARTEMIS sigue el paradigma de las gramáticas de unificación (Sag, I., Wasow, T. & Bender, E. 2003) y, a diferencia de otros recursos informáticos, se caracteriza por su sólido fundamento teórico. El algoritmo de enlace del modelo lingüístico de la Gramática del Papel y la Referencia (Van Valin & LaPolla 1997 y Van Valin 2005) es central...

In this article I intend to analyse Nuala Ní Chonchúir’s short story “As I Look,” from her 2009 collection Nude, in relation to the concept of dysfunction, the representation of the nude female body, and the deconstruction of the conventional male gaze. My analysis will be backed up by a theoretical framework on objectification and will focus on dysfunction in the gaze and representation, and also in narration. I aim at highlighting dysfunction as an instrument to convey a new meaning around..., En este artículo me propongo analizar el relato de Nuala Ní Chonchúir “As I Look,” de su colección de relatos Nude (2009), en relación con el concepto de disfunción, la representación del cuerpo femenino desnudo, y la deconstrucción de la mirada masculina convencional. Mi análisis estará respaldado por un marco teórico sobre la reificación del cuerpo, y se centrará en la aplicación de la disfunción a los ámbitos de la mirada, la representación, y finalmente la narración. Me propongo, con todo...

Poles are one of the largest non-UK born ethnic groups in all countries and most regions of the United Kingdom. Since Poland’s accession to the European Union in May 2004, thousands of Poles have migrated to the UK, hoping for better professional opportunities and higher standards of living. It was thus only a matter of time before Poles started to put their experience of migration on paper. One example is A.M. Bakalar, whose literary debut, Madame Mephisto (2012), was..., Los polacos son una de las minorías más numerosas dentro del Reino Unido. Desde la adhesión de Polonia a la Unión Europea en mayo de 2004, miles de polacos han emigrado al Reino Unido con la esperanza de mejorar sus oportunidades profesionales y su nivel de vida. Así pues, era sólo cuestión de tiempo que empezaran a plasmar en papel su experiencia sobre la migración. Un ejemplo de ello, es A.M. Bakalar, cuyo debut, Madame Mephisto (2012), fue promocionado como la voz de la nueva ola de la...

Widely acclaimed as one of the best living Canadian authors, Tim Bowling has cultivated several literary genres with great talent and verbal craftsmanship. He has published twelve poetry collections to date, two works of creative non-fiction, and five novels, including Downriver Drift (2000), The Paperboy’s Winter (2003), The Bone Sharps (2007), The Tinsmith (2012) and The Heavy Bear (2017). This article explores the epistemological power of Bowling’s fiction as a mode of knowing the self and..., Aclamado como uno de los mejores autores canadienses vivos, Tim Bowling ha cultivado diversos géneros literarios con gran talento y pericia. Cuenta en su haber con doce poemarios hasta la fecha, dos obras de escritura creativa y cinco novelas, Downriver Drift (2000), The Paperboy’s Winter (2003), The Bone Sharps (2007), The Tinsmith (2012) y The Heavy Bear (2017). Este artículo explora el poder de la narrativa de Bowling como vehículo de conocimiento del ser y del mundo natural. Concretamente,...

This paper seeks to explore the translation of irony and parody. The theoretical framework followed will be relevance-theory, which has highlighted that the expression of a certain attitude may be common to these two figures. The work under analysis will be a Spanish rendering of Fowles' The French Lieutenant’s Woman, which criticism has regarded as a parody of nineteenth-century Victorian fiction. It will be assumed that for readers to be able to cope with the meaning of parody and irony..., Este artículo busca explorar la traducción de la ironía y de la parodia. El marco teórico que se seguirá será la teoría de la relevancia, que ha puesto de relieve que la expresión de una determinada actitud puede ser común a estas dos figuras. La obra que se analizará es una versión española de La mujer del teniente francés de Fowles, considerada por la crítica como una parodia de la narrativa victoriana del siglo XIX. Se partirá de la base de que, para que los lectores puedan desentrañar el...

This article explores the different uses that Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat makes of code-switching in her last novel Claire of the Sea Light (2013). It also delves into the effects Danticat seeks to produce on her readers by the introduction of Creole words and expressions. While the incorporation of the mother tongue is not new in Danticat’s fiction, critics have paid little attention to the diverse purposes such a tongue purports to serve in her books and to the kind of responses...,  El presente artículo indaga en los distintos usos que la escritora haitiana-americana Edwidge Danticat hace del cambio de idioma (code-switching) en su última novela Claire of the Sea Light (2013). También considera los efectos que intenta producir en sus lectores en base al uso de términos y expresiones en criollo (Creole). Aunque la utilización de su lengua materna ha sido una constante en la obra de Danticat, hasta ahora se ha prestado poca atención a las diversas funciones que...

Drawing on Edward W. Soja’s radical critique to the prevailing narrative of history in social theory, this paper investigates how two novels on Italian/American ethnic identity are distinctively spatialized. The analysis focuses on the characters’ different experiences and perceptions of space, which attest to the interplay of identity and spatial production, paying attention to agency and spatial stories that are specifically localized. By using theory on the (re)production of space, this..., A partir de la contribución fundamental efectuada por Edward W. Soja, concretamente su crítica al papel predominante de la historia en la teoría social, este artículo examina dos novelas de la tradición italiana/americana que muestran un gran énfasis en la importancia de la espacialidad. El análisis explora las diferentes experiencias y percepciones del espacio de los personajes, que revelan la interconexión entre identidad y espacio. Asimismo, se presta especial atención al modo en que la...

This article examines the ways in which the Victorian body and identity were being transformed in the mid-nineteenth century and identifies three distinctive ways the biological and normative boundaries of the body were violated as represented in Dickens’s fiction: the grotesque body, the vulnerable body and the dead body. In this sense, Dickens’s Bleak House (1851-53) and Our Mutual Friend (1864-65) present creative and challenging literary responses to the Victorian body abjected through..., Este artículo examina en qué formas el cuerpo y la identidad victorianos se estaban transformando a mediados del siglo XIX, e identifica tres formas distintas en las  que se violaron los límites biológicos y normativos del cuerpo tal como se representa en la ficción de Dickens: el cuerpo grotesco, el cuerpo vulnerable  y el cadáver. En este sentido, Casa desolada (1851-53) y Nuestro común amigo (1864-65) presentan respuestas literarias creativas y desafiantes al cuerpo...

The overriding aim of the article is to present, evaluate and discuss the effectiveness of early bilingual education in a monolingual environment, such as Poland. As opposed to situations where parents use two languages due to their different nationalities and backgrounds or instances of employing foreign nannies to address children in another language (usually their own L1), this paper will focus on a controversial issue of using a foreign language (L2) by a parent and speaking it to a child..., El objetivo primordial de este artículo es presentar, evaluar y debatir la efectividad de la educación bilingüe temprana en un entorno monolingüe, como es el de Polonia. Frente a situaciones en las que los padres usan dos idiomas debido a sus diferentes nacionalidades u orígenes, o a casos en los que niñeras extranjeras hablan a los niños en otro idioma (generalmente su propia L1), este trabajo se centra en el controvertido asunto del empleo de un idioma extranjero (L2) por parte de un...

The Constitution of the United States has not been a document specially  referred to, nor considered, by Spanish academics who have studied the Constitution of 1812. Even the constitutionalists gathered in Cádiz fled from anything that could evoke a republican and federalist constitution being their purpose radically different. In a general way, it has been the French Constitution of 1791, the reference text “par excellece”. But, beyond the liberal principles that Americans and most of..., La Constitución de los Estados Unidos no ha sido un documento especialmente referencial, o considerado, por los académicos españoles estudiosos de la Constitución de 1812. Incluso los propios constitucionalistas reunidos en Cádiz huían de cuanto pudiera aludir una constitución republicana y federalista cuando su propósito era radicalmente distinto. De forma general ha sido tradicionalmente la Constitución Francesa de 1791 el texto evocado por antonomasia. Sin embargo, tanto en Estados Unidos...

Even though the research on translator training explicitly advocates specific language training catering for translator and interpreter trainees’ needs, only a few, scattered attempts seem to have been made as regards the identification and provision of specific approaches guiding the teaching of such newly appointed branch of Languages for Specific Purposes. Drawing on previous studies on translator training and translation competence, this paper elaborates on the notion of the translator’s..., A pesar de que la investigación sobre formación de traductores aboga explícitamente por una formación lingüística específica que satisfaga las necesidades de los estudiantes de traducción e interpretación, contamos con pocos estudios que hayan identificado y propuesto directrices acerca de cómo se debería enfocar la enseñanza de esta nueva rama de Lenguas para Fines Específicos. Basándonos en estudios previos sobre formación de traductores y competencia traductora, este artículo profundiza en...

Balancing and mastering the linguistic and academic demands of English teaching in higher education can become a difficult hurdle to surpass. Since curricula that integrates technology appears to provide an array of opportunities that promote engagement and language skills, it is worth examining how and whether L2 motivation, self-regulation and learning can be heightened through digital technologies. This paper describes a 6-week intervention programme conducted on 205 international students..., Las exigencias lingüísticas y académicas de la enseñanza del inglés en la educación superior pueden convertirse en un obstáculo difícil de superar. Dado que el currículo que integra la tecnología parece proporcionar una serie de oportunidades que promueven el compromiso y las habilidades lingüísticas, es preciso examinar si la motivación, la autorregulación y el aprendizaje de una L2 se pueden aumentar a través de las tecnologías digitales. Este artículo describe una intervención de 6 semanas...

American critic Fredric Jameson has referred to the modern centred subject as a consequence of the historical development of capitalism: both a product of and compensation for the processes of reification and fragmentation brought about by our mode of production. For the critic, realism and modernism played a fundamental part in the consolidation of modern individuality through the use of textual strategies such as point of view and free indirect discourse, which conjure up the literary..., El crítico estadounidense Fredric Jameson considera el concepto moderno de sujeto centrado como una consecuencia del desarrollo histórico del capitalismo: un producto de los procesos de reificación y desintegración inherentes a nuestro modo de producción y al mismo tiempo una compensación por los mismos. Para el crítico, realismo y modernismo jugaron un papel fundamental en la consolidación de la individualidad moderna mediante el uso de estrategias textuales como el punto de vista y el...

Linguistic humour studies have been undertaken from different perspectives. The present paper offers a review of the most influential theories seeking synergies and convergence between them under the umbrella of cognitive linguistics, and, more specifically, resorting to Langacker’s (2001) current discourse space (CDS) as the overall framework which can accommodate and encompass those perspectives, along with Fauconnier and Turner’s (2003) Conceptual Integration Theory. A sketch of various..., Desde el punto de vista de la lingüística, se han realizado estudios del humor desde perspectivas muy diversas. En el presente artículo se incluye una reflexión de las teorías más influyentes, con objeto de establecer entre ellas sinergias y convergencia. Se recurre, de forma concreta, al espacio actual del discurso (Langacker, 2001) como el marco general en el que confluyen dichas teorías, junto con la Teoría de Integración Conceptual de Fauconnier y Turner (2003). Se esbozan diversas teorías...

This paper analyzes noun (direct object) collocations with the high-frequency verb do by Spanish university students in a computerized learner corpus that includes 155 participants and a total of 246 writing samples. The corpus includes the students' spontaneous written contributions to a compulsory online forum from the nonlinguistic subject, ICT Tools Applied to the Learning of English, included in the curriculum of the Degree in Early Childhood Education at Universidad Internacional de..., Este artículo analiza colocaciones de sustantivos (función de objeto directo) con el verbo de frecuencia do por estudiantes universitarios españoles en un corpus de aprendizaje computarizado que contiene 155 participantes y un total de 246 muestras escritas. El corpus incluye las participaciones por escrito que los alumnos han realizado en un foro obligatorio de la asignatura no lingüística Herramientas TIC Aplicadas al Aprendizaje del Inglés, que es parte del currículo del Grado en Maestro en...

The article presents a mixed-method study of how in-service primary school teachers frame speech fluency in English as a Foreign Language (EFL). In the present study, a group of 19 in-service primary school teachers (further - participants) are asked to write reflective essays on the topic “My Understanding of Speech Fluency in EFL”. The corpus of the participants’ reflective essays has been contrasted with the reflective essays written on the same topic by a control group, which is comprised..., El artículo presenta un estudio de métodos mixtos sobre cómo los maestros de primaria en servicio  enmarcan la fluidez del habla en inglés como lengua extranjera (EFL). A un grupo de 19 maestros de escuela primaria en activo (de ahora en adelante, “participantes”) se les solicita que escriban ensayos reflexivos sobre el tema "Mi comprensión de la fluidez del habla en EFL". El corpus de los ensayos reflexivos de los participantes ha sido contrastado con los ensayos reflexivos...

This paper aims to look into the link between the experience of beauty at a sensory level and its connection with more cognitive considerations in Anglo-Saxon England. To do so, I have carried out a complete analysis of the usage of the Old English adjective fæger, one of the main descriptors of beauty in the linguistic variety. Using the Dictionary of Old English Corpus, I have created a concordance and a database containing all its attested forms, which I have analysed following diverse..., El propósito de este artículo es investigar la relación entre la experiencia de la belleza a un nivel sensorial y su conexión con aspectos más cognitivos en la Inglaterra anglosajona. Para ello, he llevado a cabo un análisis completo del uso del adjetivo fæger perteneciente al inglés antiguo, uno de los principales descriptores de belleza en la variedad lingüística. Usando el Dictionary of Old English Corpus, he creado una concordancia y una base de datos con sus distintas atestaciones, las...

The digital revolution of recent years has led to new ways of learning by combining innovative and traditional methods. In order to engage the students in these new methods, a pilot project called the Communicative English Language Skills Improvement Programme (CELSIP) has been designed. Thus the learners will be able to achieve a higher level of communication in English through a wide range of multimedia resources, such as audio-books, learning apps, educational websites, TV series, films,..., La revolución digital de los últimos años ha llevado a nuevas formas de aprendizaje mediante la combinación de métodos innovadores y tradicionales. Con el fin de involucrar a los estudiantes en estos nuevos métodos, se ha diseñado un proyecto piloto llamado Communicative English Language Skills Improvement Programme (CELSIP). De esta manera, los alumnos podrán lograr un mayor nivel de comunicación en inglés a través de una amplia gama de recursos multimedia, como audiolibros, aplicaciones de...

This article explores the different types of communities and the role of secrecy and counter-history in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things (1997), a novel in which secrecy plays a crucial role and in which the most genuine human relations are characterized by a desire to participate in otherness. This article examines Roy’s subversion of the operative community by considering: (a) the different communitarian organizations in The God of Small Things, from the most organic (the caste system..., Este artículo explora los diferentes tipos de comunidad y el papel que el secreto y la Contra-Historia juegan en la novela de Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1997), una novela en la que el secreto juega un papel crucial y en la que las relaciones humanas más genuinas se caracterizan por el deseo de participar en la otredad. Este artículo examina la subversión de la comunidad operativa analizando: (a) las diferentes organizaciones comunitarias en The God of Small Things, desde las más...

Metaphor has been studied as a pervasive and intrinsic discourse tool over the last decades in many different types of discourse (Lakoff and Johnson 1980, Semino 2008, Kövecses 2010, etc.). Considering the strong effect it has on the discourse participants and how it can persuade them towards one side, action, or thought (Charteris-Black 2004, Silaski 2012), it is necessary to study it when the timeframe and the discourse where it is used are ideologically loaded. Based on recent studies on..., La metáfora como herramienta constante e intrínseca del discurso en diferentes ámbitos ha sido objeto de estudio durante las últimas décadas (Lakoff y Johnson 1980, Semino 2008, Kövecses 2010, etc.). Teniendo en cuenta el efecto que tiene en los participantes del discurso y cómo puede persuadirles hacia un lado, acción o pensamiento (Charteris-Black 2004, Silaski 2012), es incluso más urgente estudiarla cuando el marco temporal y el discurso en el que se usa están cargados de ideología. Basado...

This paper delves into the structure and motivations of blending by reporting on the results of the analysis of a corpus of 80 blends gathered from the field of videogaming. The starting point will be a multidimensional description based on a set of parameters and values drawn on previous works by, among others, Kemmer (2000), Ronneberger-Sibold (2006) and Mattiello (2013). In accordance with the principles of Prototype Theory (Lakoff 1987; Langacker 1987), the combination of values displayed..., Este trabajo profundiza en la estructura y motivaciones de los cruces léxicos a partir de los resultados del análisis de un corpus de 80 cruces léxicos del campo de los videojuegos. El punto de partida es una descripción multidimensional basada en un conjunto de parámetros recogidos de estudios previos de, entre otros, Kemmer (2000), Ronneberger-Sibold (2006) y Mattiello (2013). De acuerdo con los principios de la Teoría de Prototipos (Lakoff 1987; Langacker 1987), la combinación de valores...

This paper presents a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of the Brexit means Brexit tautology from a constructionist perspective. A multimodal corpus of instances of the construction was compiled and analyzed, paying attention to the components of the construction such as its phonetic-phonological and gestural features as well as the idealized cognitive models underlying the use of the tautology in discourse. This study also addresses how different semantic-pragmatic uses have an impact on the..., Este artículo presenta un análisis de discurso basado en corpus de la tautología Brexit means Brexit desde una perspectiva construccionista. Se ha compilado y analizado un corpus multimodal de ejemplos de la construcción, prestando atención a componentes de la construcción tales como sus rasgos fonético-fonológicos y gestuales, así como a los modelos cognitivos idealizados (ICMs) que subyacen al uso de de esta tautología en discurso. El estudio también analiza cómo los diferentes usos semántico...

By analysing the combination of an apparently neutral water metaphor, ‘flujo de refugiados / (in)migrantes’ and ‘flow of refugees / (im)migrants’, with very specific image schemas, in El País and The Guardian from 2015 to 2016, when the Syrian refugee crisis was at its peak, this study aims at uncovering the conceptualization of the refugees in two European host countries. To this aim, the study contributes to the field of anti-immigration discourse by presenting a comprehensive qualitative..., Este trabajo muestra cómo la prensa de dos países de acogida, España y Reino Unido, conceptualizan a los refugiados sirios a través del uso de una metáfora aparentemente neutra, ‘flujo de refugiados / (in)migrantes’ y ‘flow of refugees / (im)migrants’, en combinación con esquemas de imágenes muy específicos. El análisis, basado en El País y The Guardian durante los años más agudos de la crisis, 2015 y 2016, presenta un estudio cualitativo y contrastivo en castellano e inglés de todos los...

Non-native English speaking (NNES) scholars face great hardship when they attempt to publish in English. Upon submitting their manuscripts to English-language journals, these scholars usually receive comments from the reviewers criticizing the rhetorical structures they adopt. One of these criticisms is concerned with how they manage the relationship between the author and the potential addressee; that is, the scholars’ expression of their attitude and the way they adjust the certainty of their..., Los investigadores cuyo primer idioma no es inglés se enfrentan a grandes dificultades cuando tratan de publicar en esa lengua. Al enviar sus manuscritos a revistas en inglés, dichos investigadores generalmente reciben comentarios de los revisores que critican las estructuras retóricas que adoptan. Una de estas críticas se refiere a cómo manejan la relación entre el autor y el destinatario potencial, esto es, cómo los autores expresan su actitud y certeza ante los reclamos, y crean solidaridad...

The mirlitonnades are short poems written by Samuel Beckett between 1976 and 1978. These minimalistic pieces reflect the poetic idiosyncrasies in his literary career and also in his personal life. Although Spanish literary culture has not been significantly affected by the work of Samuel Beckett —with some notable exceptions— it is surprising that the mirlitonnades have been translated five times into Spanish. In this study, I will focus on three of those versions —Loreto Casado (1998), Jenaro..., Las mirlitonnades son poemas cortos escritos por Samuel Beckett entre 1976 y 1978. Estas piezas minimalistas representan la idiosincrasia poética predominante tanto en la carrera literaria como en la vida personal de Beckett. Aunque la cultura literaria española no se ha visto afectada significativamente por la obra de Samuel Beckett —con algunas excepciones destacables— es sorprendente que esta colección haya sido traducida cinco veces al castellano. En este estudio he centrado mi atención en...

Some verbs cannot have their clausal complements replaced by referential expressions salva congruitate and/or veritate. This makes it difficult to analyse them as denoting relations of the type expressed by run-of-the-mill transitive verbs. The main goal in this work is to find an explanation for why some English embedding verbs are relational while others fail to be so. The question is, why can the latter, but not the former verbs have their embedded clauses replaced by direct speech..., Algunos verbos del inglés no pueden reemplazar sus complementos por expresiones referenciales salva congruitate y/o veritate. Esto impide que dichos verbos puedan ser analizados de la misma forma que los típicos verbos transitivos. El objetivo de este trabajo es encontrar una explicación de por qué ciertos verbos completivos del inglés son relacionales mientras que otros no lo son. La cuestión es, ¿por qué pueden los verbos no-relacionales reemplazar sus complementos oracionales por oraciones...

This research examines the influence of Romantic poet John Keats on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a Victorian artistic and literary movement. The aim of this paper is to prove how Keats became, moreover, a major connecting link between Romanticism and the Victorian era, thus enabling the continued existence of certain Romantic aesthetic features until the beginning of the twentieth century. In that sense, we will explore how this influence took shape and we will analyse Pre-Raphaelite works..., Esta investigación examina la influencia del poeta romántico John Keats en la Hermandad Prerrafaelita, un movimiento artístico-literario. El objetivo de este trabajo es demostrar la manera en que Keats, además, llegó a convertirse en el nexo de unión  entre el Romanticismo y la época victoriana, lo que permitió, por tanto, la permanencia de ciertas características estéticas hasta principios del siglo XX. En ese sentido, se explorará aquí cómo dicha influencia tomó forma y se analizarán...

In their fiction oeuvre, Cuban-American authors Cristina García and Achy Obejas demonstrate concerns related to the fragmented memory of Cuban-American second-generation migrants. The particular political status of this exile community together with the difficulty to access familial memories back in the homeland cause in the protagonists a series of conflicts affecting their sense of identity. However, as the narratives progress, these conflicts prove to be a result of the prevalence of..., En las obras de las autoras cubano-americanas Cristina Garcia y Achy Obejas se pueden observar preocupaciones sobre la memoria fragmentada de los hijos de exiliados cubanos en Estados Unidos. Debido al estatus particular de esta comunidad por motivos políticos, los personajes de estas obras muestran conflictos en su identidad relacionados con la memoria de su tierra de origen. Sin embargo, a medida que las narraciones progresan, se demuestra que estos conflictos vienen determinados por nociones...

This study compares the effectiveness of two combinations of new vocabulary learning techniques: ‘incidental + intentional’ and ‘intentional + incidental’. For the incidental part, the participants viewed 3 hours of captioned authentic videos, whereas for the intentional one they were asked to do a set of tasks with the target vocabulary at home. Three aspects of the target words were tested: form recognition, meaning recall and written use in a sentence. The overall scores revealed better..., Este estudio compara la efectividad de dos combinaciones de técnicas de aprendizaje de nuevo vocabulario: ‘incidental + intencional’ e ‘intencional + incidental’. Para la parte incidental, los participantes vieron 3 horas de videos con subtítulos, mientras que para la parte intencional se les pidió que hicieran en casa 3 ejercicios con el vocabulario objetivo. Se pusieron a prueba tres aspectos de las palabras objetivo: el reconocimiento de la forma, la capacidad de recordar el significado y el...

The present article examines how Freshwater (2018), the debut novel of the Nigerian writer  Akwaeke Emezi, offers a layered portrayal of precolonial Igbo and western narratives. By recourse to the auto-fictional narrative mode, the fiction deploys a constant tug of war which suggests the culturally hybrid nature of discourses connected to spiritual belief, self-identity dynamics and gender. My analysis pivots around three main discussions. Firstly, I trace and exemplify the aesthetic..., El presente artículo examina cómo Freshwater (2018), el debut literario de la escritora nigeriana Akwaeke Emezi, ofrece una descripción estratificada de narrativas occidentales y pre-coloniales Igbo (principalmente del tramposo semidios ọgbanje). La novela presenta una tensión fictiva constante que sugiere la naturaleza híbrida de creencias espirituales, dinámicas de definición de identidad y de género. Freshwater se inscribe dentro de las tendencias literarias actuales del meta- y trans-...

In view of the acute lack of analyses of Indian-Trinidadian queer diasporic subjectivities, this article will focus on Shani Mootoo’s “Out on Main Street” by using a queer diasporic theoretical framework, one which hinges on unveiling the violent practices to which sexually and racially marginalized communities are exposed and on exploring the ways by which queer diasporic subjects subvert dominant assumptions. In order to carry out the analysis, I will, first, offer an overview of the uses and..., En este trabajo se estudiará el relato breve “Out on Main Street” (Shani Mootoo) a través de la aplicación de un marco teórico queer y diaspórico, que estará orientado a investigar la violencia a la que se exponen las personas con identidades sexuales y nacionales no normativas. Para llevar a cabo el análisis, se ofrecerá, en primer lugar, una descripción general de los usos e implicaciones del concepto de la «diáspora queer» en el relato de Mootoo; en segundo lugar, se analizará la manera en...

This paper analyses the linguistic changes arising from the formation of workers’ culture during the Industrial Revolution, as well as the effects of the pastoral work of the Anglican church, and its reflection on the Victorian literature produced by Charlotte Brontë. Specifically, this analysis is based on the parallelism established by this novelist between the values ​​that lie behind the concepts of unionism and solidarity and her fight against the social conventions concerning marriage, as..., Este artículo analiza los cambios lingüísticos derivados de la formación de la cultura del proletariado durante la Revolución Industrial, así como los efectos de la labor pastoral de la iglesia anglicana, y su reflejo en la literatura victoriana producida por Charlotte Brontë. Concretamente, este análisis se basa en el paralelismo establecido por esta novelista entre los valores que subyacen en los sustantivos sindicalismo y solidaridad y su lucha contra las convenciones sociales con respecto...

Conceptual Metaphor Theory developed by Lakoff & Johnson (1980) suggested that we use metaphors to evaluate and communicate in our various environments. Although metaphors encompass a large variety of taxonomies, orientational metaphors are those that rely on spatial position to map concepts into other ones, referring to a relation of valence and verticality. Stated by Kövecses (2010) conceptual metaphors such orientational ones draw ‘upward’ and ‘downward’ spatial positions in which ‘..., La Teoría de la Metáfora Conceptual (Lakoff & Johnson 1980) sugiere que utilizamos metáforas para comunicarnos en diversos ambientes. Aunque las metáforas abarcan una gran variedad de taxonomías, las metáforas orientacionales son aquellas que se basan en la posición espacial para mapear ciertos conceptos en otros, refiriéndose a una relación de valencia y verticalidad. Las metáforas orientacionales dibujan posiciones espaciales “hacia arriba” y “hacia abajo” en las que se suele decir...

This article is a review of a few essential aspects of one of the famous Slavic linguistic schools  —the Polish ethnolinguistic school of Lublin. This school developed the theory of językowy obraz świata (in Polish) or jazykovaja kartina mira (in Russian), which is generally translated in English as ‘Linguistic Image of the World’ (LIW). The Linguistic Image of the World takes into account the sociocultural embeddedness of language and cognition. We will compare this theory with..., Este artículo es una revisión de los aspectos esenciales de una de las célebres escuelas lingüísticas eslavas: la escuela etnolingüística polaca de Lublin. Esta escuela desarrolló la teoría de językowy obraz świata (en polaco) o jazykovaja kartina mira (en ruso), que se suele traducir en inglés como “Linguistic Image of the World” (LIW). La Imagen Lingüística del Mundo tiene en cuenta la posición sociocultural del lenguaje y de la cognición. Compararemos esta teoría con los modelos...

With the evidence for disciplinary variation in academic discourse constantly growing, the idea of teaching core academic thinking in writing seems to have become increasingly problematic. The paper offers a rationale for two general-academic writing assignments, each focusing on teaching one fundamental aspect of what is defined as the intellectual stance underlying academic writing in general. The two aspects are problematizing and subject position. Problematizing and assuming a new subject..., Ante el evidente y continuo crecimiento de la variación disciplinaria en el discurso académico, la noción de enseñar el pensamiento académico básico por escrito parece haberse vuelto cada vez más controvertida. Este artículo ofrece una justificación para dos tareas de escritura académica general, cada una de las cuales se centra en la enseñanza de un aspecto clave de lo que se define como la postura intelectual subyacente a la redacción académica en general: la problematización y la posición...

Role-play tasks have been widely used in pragmatic research to explore spoken interaction. This instrument consists of situational scenarios purposefully designed to make participants elicit specific pragmatic data in controlled situations (Kasper & Youn 2017, Félix-Brasdefer 2018). Notwithstanding the widespread use of role-plays, some drawbacks have been identified concerning design (Hudson et al. 1995, Trosborg 1995, Youn 2015) and real-life consequences (Al-Gahtani & Roever..., Las tareas de role-play se han utilizado ampliamente en la investigación pragmática para explorar la interacción hablada. Este instrumento se compone de escenarios situacionales diseñados a propósito para que los participantes produzcan datos pragmáticos específicos en situaciones controladas (Kasper y Youn 2017, Félix-Brasdefer 2018). A pesar de su uso generalizado, se han identificado algunos inconvenientes con respecto al diseño (Hudson et al. 1995, Trosborg 1995, Youn 2015) y a las...

This article analyses two contemporary novels, Mary Paulson-Ellis’ The Other Mrs Walker (2016) and Ever Dundas’ Goblin (2017), comparing their depictions of Edinburgh in their strikingly similar parallel narratives, in which a contemporary Edinburgh setting intertwines with that of London in the Second World War. In the context of the Brexit vote of 2016, in which arguments for British autonomy and border closure won the day, the article argues that these...

As a cognitive process, metaphorical reasoning is inevitable, but not necessarily innocent or neutral. It is well known that the conceptual domains of love and sex have received substantial attention within cognitive linguistics. However, a source domain that merits further exploration from a gender ideology perspective is that of the hunt. For this reason, following an approach that links cognitive linguistics with critical discourse analysis this article examines the conceptualisation of love..., Como proceso cognitivo, el razonamiento metafórico es inevitable, pero eso no quiere decir que este sea necesariamente inocente o neutral. Como es bien sabido, los dominios conceptuales del amor y el sexo han sido ampliamente estudiados por la lingüística cognitiva. No obstante, un dominio fuente que merece una mayor atención desde una perspectiva ideológica y de género es el dominio de la caza. A través de un enfoque que combina la lingüística cognitiva y el análisis crítico del discurso, este...

A place cannot exist if it has not been imagined, if it has not been perceived, as Alasdair Gray famously stated. Scottish Science Fiction goes a step further by emphasizing the need not only to recognise and represent Scottish places, but also to recreate and to re-imagine them in its possible futures. To (re-)imagine Scotland and its places means also to envision its potential spaces. Ken MacLeod is one of the figures who has successfully managed to set Scotland on the Science Fiction map...., Un lugar no puede existir si no se ha imaginado, si no se ha percibido, como dijo Alasdair Gray. La ciencia ficción escocesa va un paso más allá al enfatizar la necesidad de, no solo de reconocer y representar lugares escoceses, sino también de recrearlos y reimaginarlos en su posible futuro. (Re-)imaginar Escocia y sus lugares significa también ver sus espacios potenciales. Ken MacLeod es una de las figuras que ha logrado colocar a Escocia en el mapa de la ciencia ficción. Sus novelas...