Listar Programa de Doctorat en Llengües Aplicades, Literatura i Traducció por idioma "eng"
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A Study of Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad in Light of Appropriation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Through Translation and Adaptation Studies
Universitat Jaume I (2023-07-27)This doctoral thesis examines both Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus (1888), and Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad (2014) in light of adaptation and appropriation by employing the framework of ... -
Academic Evaluation within the Applied Linguistics response Article: An Analysis of Writer Mediated Praise and Criticism as Rhetorical strategies
Universitat Jaume I (2009-09-29)The present dissertation deals with the analysis of rhetorical strategies of evaluation used in the "response" article in the field of applied linguistics. Based on a genre approach to discourse, our study shows how writers ... -
Contrasting the Polysemy of Prepositions in English and Albanian
Universitat Jaume I (2020-02-25)The process of learning a foreign language can be exhausting for almost all language learners. In this study, it is aimed at providing students an accessible way to reducing commitment of errors while speaking or learning ... -
"Cooking" in the mind: a frame-based contrastive study of culinary metaphors in American English and Peninsular Spanish
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-22)The present thesis aims at identifying and contrasting metaphorical expressions and their underlying conceptual metaphors grounded in the COOKING domain in American English (AmE) and Peninsular Spanish (PenSp). To achieve ... -
Developing, Applying, and Testing FILMIP: the Filmic Metaphor Identification Procedure
Universitat Jaume I (2019-05-09)The analysis and identification of figurative language is one of the largest research areas in cognitive linguistics, and metaphor is one of these tropes. This thesis develops The Filmic Metaphor Identification ... -
Early multilingualism: an analysis of pragmatic awareness and language attitudes in consecutive multilingual children
Universitat Jaume I (2013-12-17)La presente tesis doctoral se enmarca dentro de la investigación sobre el multilingüismo, más concretamente analiza la adquisición y el desarrollo multilingüe en edades tempranas. Nuestros participantes son aprendices de ... -
Epistemological Approaches to Legal Translation Education: A Situated Account
Universitat Jaume I (2017-12-21)La tesi doctoral que ací es presenta planteja, mitjançant una metodologia de caire quantitativo-qualitativa, una visió en conjunt de la didàctica de la traducció jurídica en Espanya, amb èmfasi en la pedagogia de l’aula i ... -
Functional diversity in higher education: curriculum accommodation for people with vision disability or hearing impairment in the English as a Foreign Language classroom
Universitat Jaume I (2022-07-14)This doctoral dissertation sets out to find useful and applicable inclusive practices that aim at UDL that could be implemented in the EFL context to make it accessible to learners with visual or aural diversity, with three ... -
Logical connectors in efl writing: Learners' Use and Instruction
Universitat Jaume I (2006-05-05)The aim of the present study was to analyse leaners’ use of logical connectors within the EFL classroom setting as well as to provide insights into the effects of instruction on their acquisition process. To this aim, two ... -
Pragmatic Awareness and Engagement with Language from a Multilingual Perspective
Universitat Jaume I (2022-12-16)The current study focuses on multilingual learners’ engagement with languages and the collaborative construction of their pragmatic awareness. The construct of Engagement with Language (Svalberg, 2009, 2012) was implemented ... -
Pragmatics in English as a lingua franca. An analysis of request modifiers
Universitat Jaume I (2008-09-11)This PhD dissertation aims at contributing to the body of research in English as a Lingua Franca regarding pragmatic awareness and production by, (a) examining how 104 English non-native speakers' awareness of pragmatic ... -
The effect of instruction on the development of pragmatic competence in the English as a foreign language context: A study based on suggestions
Universitat Jaume I (2004-12-16)This dissertation investigates the effects of instruction on the acquisition of pragmatic competence in the classroom setting, and specifically in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom. In particular, we examine ... -
The polysemy of prepositions at, beside, by, near and next to: The horizontal axis of spatial relations
Universitat Jaume I (2022-04-04)Even though some prepositions may appear similar in meaning to others, slight and subtle nuances exist. Thus, exploring the contrasts in their senses is fundamental to developing a description of these distinct meanings. ...