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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 ... -
Olaudah Equiano's Hybrid Identity
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06-25)The present thesis revolves around Olaudah Equiano's literary work, T he Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the African. Written by Himself . This essay is intended to illustrate the ... -
Older Learners: Influence of Age in Their Second-Language Acquisition Goals
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-04)This study diagnoses influence of senior students' age in their goals of learning English as second language (L2) and contributes to the language skills analysis the bilingualism. The aim of this paper is to study age ... -
Omnipresence of metaphors in God is a Woman music video: a filmic analysis
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-05)Metaphors have always been considered linguistic devices (spoken or written). However, nowadays researchers claim that they can be examined from other perspectives because people use different means of expression to create ... -
Online Resources and their Effect on the Four Skills in the EFL Classroom
Universitat Jaume I (2019-09-30)The past thirty years have seen increasingly rapid advances in the field of language learning, and the necessity to learn a foreign language with a limited amount of time or specific lifestyle, the appearance of the ... -
Overcoming textbooks’ pragmatic deficiencies: A teaching proposal to the instruction of requests in the EFL classroom
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-12)Over the years, English has become the language of the world. As a result, there has been a rising demand for learning the language, and consequently, a significant emergence of English courses. Nevertheless, some deficiencies ... -
Pecha Kucha Nights: an Analysis of 10 Performances
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-04)A new way of presenting has been invented under the name of Pecha Kucha, an innovative presentation format. As in traditional presentations, the message has to be clear and well presented. For this reason, there are some ... -
Personality, Learning Styles and Learning Strategies in SLA/FLA: Implications of individual differences in SLA/FLA
Universitat Jaume I (2014)Research have stated the importance of individual differences such as personality, learning styles and learning strategies, in predicting success in second or foreign language acquisition. Particularly, investigations in ... -
Persuading population through metaphors: a cognitive linguistic analysis of Obama’s and Trump’s inaugural addresses
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-12)As Lakoff & Johnson claim in their book Metaphors We Live By (1980: 3), “metaphor is typically viewed as a characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought and action”. From this affirmation, some ... -
Persuasive Strategies in Multimodal Metaphor: A Contrastive Analysis of the Advertisements “Good Girl” & “Bad Boy”
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-25)According to Lakoff & Johnson (1980), metaphors not only are a formal aspect of language, but they are used to understand one concept in terms of another and they are pervasive in our daily life. Conceptual Metaphors (CM) ... -
Persuasive techniques in TV commercials: contrasting MCDONALD’S and BURGER KING
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-07)Advertising has become part of our daily lives and it can be seen consciously or unconsciously everywhere. According to Frank Jefkins (1984), advertising is considered as the spreading of ideas, services or products in ... -
Pirlo Scores!!! An Analysis of Live English Football Commentary
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-07)Through the last decades, football has become one of the most popular sports all over the world. This status brings an immense responsibility upon the live football commentators, who have to bare in mind many of ... -
Political Discourse Analysis: A Comparative Analysis on The Use of Metaphors In Political Discourse
Universitat Jaume I (2019-10-01)This study proposes a twofold analysis: first, it proposes to follow the Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP, Pragglejaz Group, 2007) to identify and determine the ubiquity and functionality of metaphors related to ... -
Popular science: A new genre within academic writing?
Universitat Jaume I (2014-09-24)The objective of academic writing is the presentation of new knowledge via (a) a review of what is currently known about a given topic as (b) the foundation for the author's new views or perspectives on the topic' ... -
Positive effects of CLIL on language learning: A comparison of a CLIL and an EFL classroom
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-13)Nowadays, English proficiency is becoming more and more essential in our lives. In fact, children are starting to study English at school at ever earlier ages, and the success of bilingual schools in which English is the ... -
"Pragmatic awareness is coming”: the effect of out-of-school media contact on pragmatic awareness and competence in english philology students
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-12)The aim of the present study is to explore the effect of out-of-school contact with English-language through TV programmes on the acquisition of pragmatic competence and awareness in undergraduate students of English ... -
Pragmatics in the EFL classroom: teaching apologies with Socrative
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-30)One of the main objectives of teaching English is for students to acquire intercultural communicative competence. This competence is the skill that EFL learners must acquire in order to be able to conduct a sensible and ... -
Pragmatics of Humor in Occupy Wall Street
Universitat Jaume I (2014-06-18)This study offers a qualitative analysis of the strategic use of humor during the demonstration known as Occupy Wall Street from a pragmatic perspective. It aims to provide an answer for the reasons and means by which the ... -
Pre-voicing phonation mode in Spanish plosives: beyond cross-linguistic transfer?
Universitat Jaume I (2017)Among the different phonation modes, there is one which characterizes the Spanish language in opposition to English: pre-voicing in voiced plosives. Previous experience in analytical observation of this acoustic phonetic ...