Listar Grau en Estudis Anglesos por título
-
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 ... -
Racism Against African American Women in the Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and its Persistence in Today’s USA Society
Universitat Jaume I (2020-10-06)After the American Civil War (1861-1865), African Americans, freed from slavery for the first time, located literature as a voice booster to achieve their rights. From that point onwards, Black Americans merged in the ... -
Representation of Love against the World in Shakespeare's Plays: Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-05)William Shakespeare is possibly one of the most important writers in the universal literature. Born in England in 1564, he wrote poetry and more than thirty plays, which have survived the passing of time and have become a ... -
Reviewing the history of language teaching : emphasizing on the role of the teacher
Universitat Jaume I (2015)The main aim of this work relies on the revision of every existing method so far in order to carry out the analysis of the several and different roles that teachers have performed along the history referring second language ... -
Richard III written by William Shakepeare upon Noviembre Teatro
Universitat Jaume I (2016-10-26)A deep analysis on Shakespeare´s work Richard III is the purpose of this dissertation. It is an extensive study of the play, which includes the analysis of the marvelous play performed by the Spanish Theatre Company called ... -
Scandinavian influence in Old English poetry: a study of The Battle of Brunanburh
Universitat Jaume I (2017)One of the ways in which the general interest on the Viking world has been reflected in academia is the study of the influence that the language of these Northern peoples had in Old English during the Scandinavian ... -
Science Fiction as a Representation of Society: Parallels and Intent in Pierce Brown’s Red Rising
Universitat Jaume I (2019-10-04)Science Fiction is a genre often considered not “true” literature or “true” art by not only the general public, but also many educators. This is largely due to the fact that their target audience is mostly teenagers and ... -
Screen Adaptations: Comparing Excalibur (1981) and The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003) Film Trilogy in the Light of the Arthurian Tradition
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-23) -
Second language acquisition in study abroad programs
Universitat Jaume I (2014)Study abroad programs have gained their condition of international experience for language learning purposes and represent an alternative or complementary recourse for language learners. However, even if the effects that ... -
Self-motivation strategies in second language learning
Universitat Jaume I (2017)In the field of Applied Linguistics, the acquisition of languages has become the object of study of numerous investigations. In fact, a great number of works have focused on the acquisition of foreign and second languages. ...