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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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Capturing the Magic of Teaching: Harry Potter in the Classroom
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-22)Many researchers have examined the Harry Potter series and dealt with themes such as domestic violence, feminism, homosexuality or the role of women. However, few scholars have paid attention to the importance of teaching ... -
Censorship in translation during Franco's regime: 1984 by George Orwell (english to spanish)
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-03)Censorship during Franco's Spain (1936-1975) has been, over the years, a subject of study with great impact for some researchers and academics who wanted to study the effect of translations and the incoming texts from ... -
Challeging Darl Bundren’s insanity: a study on trauma
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-12)Critics have frequently read Darl Bundren from Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying as a mentally insane individual. The aim of this paper is to challenge the label of insane attached to Darl and interpret him as a traumatized ... -
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre Andmary Wollstoncraft’s Avindication of the Rights of Woman: an Analysis of Feminist Traits
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-04)Feminism is often studiedthrough a political lens, focusing on the different feminist theories and their influence on society. Nevertheless, literature can also be a way in which feminism is presented and studied. ... -
Cinema adaptations of "The Great Gatsby": A theoretical review
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-20)It is unquestionable that there is hardly a sphere of reality which is not echoing some form of previously established image or text. Undoubtedly, the best example of this theory is that of cinema adaptations, a common ... -
CLIL: Physical Education teaching proposal based on corporal expression through feelings and music
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-13)The educational system is changing and improving swiftly with the main purpose of offering new teaching methods. Moreover, due to the necessity of multilingual contexts, the educational system is implementing the learning ... -
Cockney influence on Standard English. A Survey of native speakers speech
Universitat Jaume I (2014-06-18)Languages in contact can influence each other and produce linguistic changes by the adoption of new features not only in terms of grammar, but also in accent and speech forms. The present paper thoroughly focuses on this ... -
Colour Symbolism in The Handmaid’s Tale
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-12)The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985) narrates the creation of a totalitarian and patriarchal society called Gilead, arranged into several social classes whose power variates depending on their status. At the ... -
Communicative Language Teaching: A Pedagogical Proposal based on the Content and Language Integrated Learning
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-12)Because of its international demand and recognition as a worldwide language, English has recently become part of our education system. Accordingly, the use of the English language has increased in different sectors all ... -
Comparative study of ICT in education Spain and the United States
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-16)For the last 20 years Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have appeared into all fields of the society. For this reason, different areas of it have been adapting to apply the possible advantages of these new ... -
Comparison between face-to-face communication and computer-mediated-communication: The use of WhatsApp
Universitat Jaume I (2014-06-18)It has been argued that misunderstandings are more likely to appear in computer-mediated communication (CMC) than in face-to-face (F2F) communication due to the lack of emotional cues in CMC contexts. The aim of this ... -
Conceptual Metaphors in still pictures, a theoretical review
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-07)Metaphors in antiquity were considered an element of decoration in poetry and rhetorical discourse, but in recent decades metaphors have become an element more closer to thought than language. Metaphor of thought or ... -
Controlling time is power: an analysis of filmic metaphors in the lotus advertisement “shine”
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-14)According to Lakoff and Johnson (1980), a metaphor is a tool which helps us understand one conceptual domain in terms of another conceptual domain. Initially, metaphors were explored solely verbally; however, later on, a ...