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Magic realism in Angela Carter's stories: "The Bloody Chamber" and "The Lady of the House of Love"
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06-22)The concept of Magic Realism has been an abstract genre since Franz Rho coined the term in 1920, after a group of painters needed it in order to describe their new style of painting. It is interesting to study the different ... -
Marriage and Women Submission: a comparison among Brontës’ main literary works
Universitat Jaume I (2019-10-04)This study is devoted to an analysis in feminism among the main novels of the Brontë sisters: Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte, Wuthering Heights, by Emily and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë. Feminism ... -
Medieval drama in English
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-12)Medieval English Drama contributed significantly to society in medieval times. Even though, drama changed through the years, it reached the point in which it became essential for society. As the church and the clergy ... -
Men and women in discourse: An experiment on gender identification in discourse
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06)Diverse studies on how men and women make use of discourse (Lakoff, 1975; Coates, 1993) have obtained certain features that appear to characterise male and female texts. Nevertheless, it seems difficult to find a system ... -
“Metamorphosis” in metaphor theory today: deliberateness in G.W.Bush´Speeches
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-17)The aim of this paper is to outline the nature of the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), the criticism it has received during the last 25 years and possible improvements. For this reason, a general overview of Cognitive ... -
Metaphor in political speeches : an analysis of George W. Bush and Barack Obama’s discourse
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-17)If metaphors can be seen as the perpetual chain that embraces words and meaning, a political speech combines the innate power of language as a means for a calculated purpose. A substantial amount of academic publications ... -
Metaphors in advertising: The case of IBM's "People for Smarter Cities" campaign
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Mobile-Assisted Language Learning: a Duolingo Teaching Proposal
Universitat Jaume I (2019-10-07)The present study offers an original teaching proposal on mobile-assisted language learning. After reviewing several papers and finding out that most of the literature regarding this type of learning proposals only use ... -
Mother Figures in a Selection of Maya Angelou's Autobiographical Works
Universitat Jaume I (2015-09-22)The subsequent study targets the late African-American writer Maya Angelou´s first autobiographical work, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), and her seventh and last one, Mom & Me & Mom (2013), in an attempt to ... -
Motivation and Learning as a Study Methodology for Fourth Course of ESO Students Through Instagram: a Teaching Proposal
Universitat Jaume I (2020-10-06)The use of social media has grown at giant paces during the last few years, bringing all kinds of information all over the world. Social networking plus other computer applications have paved the way to look for new ... -
Motivation as a key affective factor in second language acquisition
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-12)Learning a second or foreign language can either be a rewarding or an awful experience. This may be caused by affective factors that influence learners in their learning process. One of the most important individual factors ... -
Multicultural London English: a dialect emerged from immigration
Universitat Jaume I (2015-05-23)Nowadays, London has become one of the cities with the highest level of immigration. People from many parts of the world have arrived to the last few years to London seeking new opportunities and enriching this city with ... -
Multilingualism and its affective factors: Narrative analysis of students’ linguistic biography at Universitat Jaume I
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-07)The emergence of positive or negative attitudes towards language learning, also known as the affective factors, can significantly affect not only students' academic but also private lifetime. According to Henter (2013), ... -
Multilingualism: A focus on children
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-14)Multilingualism is a growing phenomenon of importance due to the development of globalisation during the centuries, provoking that many languages are exposed to people in today’s different communities. Therefore, this ... -
Multimodal resources within evaluative language: a contrastive analysis between English and Catalan
Universitat Jaume I (2018-10-02)This paper reports a contrastive analysis in which different semiotic modes are analyzed when producing evaluative language in English and Catalan, that is, when a speaker manifests attitudes, shows points of view, and ... -
Multiple intelligences applied to english as a second language
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-14)The concept of Multiple Intelligences has a lot of importance in the teaching of second languages. This theory would give to the students more opportunities of working by the ways they consider better, so this method ... -
Nonverbal Communication: Improving Academic Presentations through Body Language
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06-22)Nonverbal Communication has been proven to be almost essential if a prosperous communication is to take place. It is usually forgotten that elements such gestures, body posture, melody of the voice and many others actually ... -
Norse Gods and Comics: a Compartive Study of Tales of Asgard
Universitat Jaume I (2016-10-26)In this assignment, a comparative study is developed between the written documents and files about the Norse gods and several comic books of the five-page featurette Tales of Asgard inside the comic series “Thor” created by ... -
Northumbrian and West-Saxon: analysis of their differences
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-03)In this work a description of two of the different dialects of the Old English language, as well as an analysis of a text, is going to be provided in order to understand their division and know their differences with the ... -
Novel and society in nineteenth-century England: Charles Dickens
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-23)One of the most relevant periods for England is the one under the kingdom of Queen Victoria, also known as the Victorian Era (1837-1901). During this period, England grew as a country as a whole in almost every field ...