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Analysis of metaphors in cartoons
Universitat Jaume I (2016-10-20)Metaphors are tools that help us to conceptualize life by establishing links between two domains (Gibbs, 2006). Lakoff and Johnson (1980) introduced the study of metaphors from the point of view of cognitive linguistics ... -
Analysis of Metaphors in Sports and Drinks Advertisements
Universitat Jaume I (2017-10-05)The aim of this paper is to reveal and analyze the argumentative value of metaphors as a resource present in advertisements. It proposes, in turn, an analysis and identification of such metaphors, focusing on the complex ...
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Analysis of translanguaging practices in multilingual educational settings
Universitat Jaume I (2023-06)In today's globalized world, where migration and multilingualism are on the rise, translanguaging has become a crucial tool for communication and understanding. Translanguaging refers to the fluid use of multiple languages ... -
Analysis of visual metaphors in social media
Universitat Jaume I (2017-09-26)From a Cogntive Linguistics point of view, a metaphor was understood as a tool that allows us to understand one conceptual domain in terms of another (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980). Originally, metaphors were only considered ...
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Analyzing metaphors in Oncology texts
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Anglicisms in the Technology Section of the Spanish Press: A Corpus-based Analysis
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06-22)Globalisation and the power of English as Lingua Franca (ELF) in different spheres have had a great impact on the spread of English all over the world. Several Anglicisms have been loaned to other languages, which have ...
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Anglo-Saxons and Vikings: a historical study
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-11)The Anglo-Saxon period in England was considered a century of changes, especially for the English territory due to the fortuitous arrival of the inhabitants of Scandinavia known as Vikings. These newcomers generated a ...
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Anti-Child Trafficking Messages in Music: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-10)The huge social impact of technological networks has manifested how useful multimodality is in contemporary communication and in its meaning-making process. Over the last years, some multimodal studies have focused on ...
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Apologies in Fiction TV Series The Big Bang Theory
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-13)Since Austin’s (1962) work How To Do Things With Words there have been numerous studies about the way in which utterances are used as a mean to perform actions. The branch of linguistics that deals with this phenomenon ...
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Applying Categorization to EFL Vocabulary Teaching at Different Language Levels
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-05)Categorization is an essential cognitive phenomenon for human beings, as it allows us to organize the information that we get from the world. For this reason, categorization constitutes a major topic in the branch of ...
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Arthurian Literature in Harry Potter: a Brief Analysis
Universitat Jaume I (2023-06)The Arthurian legends, particularly the stories of the Round Table and the Holy Grail, have been a significant source of inspiration for many literary works throughout history. This paper presents an analysis of the ...
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Audiovisual Translation: The consequences of Plurilingualism, Humor and Cultural References on AVT
Universitat Jaume I (2016-10-19)Translation has been employed by humans for decades. Briefly explained, we can define it as the process that allows different audiences to understand mass media and literary productions that were not originally written or ...
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Autonomous learning through the use of mobile applications : Duolingo, Babbel and Busuu
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-16)The evolution of society produced by technologic advances has led to a world continuously connected to the Internet. Technologic devices and the Internet allow their users to obtain access to a huge amount of information ...
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Becoming Jane Eyre in Charlotte Brontë’s Novel: a Study of Middle-Class Women in NineteenthCentury Victorian Society
Universitat Jaume I (2020-10-13)Middle-class women from the nineteenth-century Victorian society were so subjugated and oppressed that even their identity was suppressed. Hence, women had trouble construing their own identity and Charlotte Brontë’s ...
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Benvenutus Grassus: A study and translation of The Wonderful Art of the Eye.
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-05)This project involves translating some of the pages of the manuscript’s “The Wonderful Art of the Eye”, written by Benvenutus Grassus, an ophthalmologist from the Middle Ages. The work used to carry on with the translation, ...
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Bilingualised LSP dictionary : gender violence
Universitat Jaume I (2016-10-26)Lexicography has not been seen as a discipline itself. There have been so many discussions about it and the opinions differ from each other. Within this discipline, dictionaries are of great importance in the field. They ...
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Black Is Beauty Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-07)Toni Morrison, a renowned African-American writer, is fighting against injustices of all sorts that affect her race. She attempts during all her literary career to state that Black Is Beauty unveiling the thruth about ...
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Boxing and chess confronted: an insight into conceptual metaphor theory and blending theory
Universitat Jaume I (2014-09-24)Recent studies in Cognitive Linguistics suggest that the perception of metaphor has changed significantly since the end of the 20th century. As a consequence, several authors have written theories about metaphor ...
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British accents and dialects: The case of Cockney
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-17)Currently, each country has one or two official languages albeit with many accents and dialects. In some cases, the distinction between accent and dialect can be as complex as that between language and dialect. The fact ...
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British Accents and Dialects: The Case of Scottish English
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-07)It seems difficult to listen to an individual speaking paying attention just to the information he or she is providing and ignoring completely the speaker’s identity. There is general agreement that one of the main ...
