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The Importance of Storytelling on Communicative Events: Ted Talks Conferences
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-10)Over the course of the human communicative history, the storytelling process represented an important contributing factor in order to conform and convey different meanings, normally, not exempted of different determined ... -
The influence of anglicisms on the Spanish language of fashion
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-06)Over the last decades, Spanish has incorporated a large number of words from the English language. This could be attributed to globalization and the increasing influence of various aspects that Spanish society has adopted. ... -
The influence of bilingualism in English as a third language
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-14)Third Language Acquisition (TLA) is considered to be a new area of research that has got the attention of many scholars (Cenoz, 2001; De Angelis, 2007, among others). There has been plenty of discrepancies regarding this ... -
The influence of Edgar Allan Poe on Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories: an analysis of selected tales
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-05)The detective story has been and continues to be, enormously popular in our literary landscape. “It is read, either aggressively or shamefacedly by nearly everyone, and it must be, at the present moment, the most popular ... -
The Influence of Individual Differences in the Learning Process: The Case of Language Learning Strategies
Universitat Jaume I (2017)Due to the phenomenon of globalization, an increasing interest in learning languages has recently arisen. As a consequence, many scholars have devoted their efforts to the study of linguistics. One of the most relevant ... -
The influence of Social Media on Gen-Z students’ knowledge of slang: How motivation and age influence this process
Universitat Jaume I (2022-06-06)Social media platforms are used worldwide by a lot of people, especially among young generations (Karthigesu et al., 2018, Pikhart & Botezat, 2021, and Dean, 2021). Specific vocabulary is used in these kinds of ... -
The Influence of YouTube on Students’ Motivation: A Comparison between Traditional and Digital EFL Environments
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-11)Students live surrounded by new technologies that are principally used to communicate. However, the use of these technologies can also be integrated into an educational environment to enhance students’ learning and feel ... -
The influence, or not, of religion on the behaviour of Shakespeare's main characters in Hamlet and Macbeth
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-12)The Elizabethan England, its people and the morals of the time are reflected in many of Shakespeare's plays. Conversely, religion is a subject that is not entirely defined in some of his plays. The doubts about which was ... -
The Irishness of Irish Literature
Universitat Jaume I (2015)Both Ireland’s literary history and how such a small country could produce such a vast amount of prestigious writers are aspects that have been of interest to many. The basis of this research was to, first of all, briefly ... -
"The Jungle Book: An approach to wild children in Literature
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-24)The paper introduces different stories about feral children being raised by animals, since the first works of Ancient Mesopotamia, to the novels in modern prose, and names some of the diverse cases of feral children ... -
The lord and the ring: morality, ethics and religion in “The lord of the rings”
Universitat Jaume I (2015-09-23)J.R.R. Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings are names that will not only sound familiar, but also inspire a deep feeling of respect to any fantasy fan. It would be rare to find someone who has not heard of Tolkien and his ... -
The loss of brain and heart in dystopian worlds: totalitarian control of the mind and emotions in “Nineteen eighty-four” and “Brave new world”
Universitat Jaume I (2016-10-18)The dystopian novel is a genre that has gained importance as a branch of science fiction especially at the beginning of the 20th century. Authors such as Aldous Huxley and George Orwell have made this literary genre reach ... -
The missing link between multilingualism and education
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-14)It is not a novelty that the term multilingualism has acquired a powerful influence in the actual world and society through the recent years. Nowadays, multilingualism has become a daily issue of debate in the educational ... -
The Modern Zombie and its Origins in Lovecraft's Literature
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06-25)In modern culture zombies are now in the mainstream. They have become an important element in films, books and TV series recently. This paper aims to analyse the modern zombie and also the Lovecraftian zombie as a possible ... -
The Monster in the Closet: Representation of Homosexual Desire in American Gothic Literature
Universitat Jaume I (2018-06-11)Gothic fiction, as of late, has been associated with having homosexual connotations. In this paper, this phenomenon will be explored profusely through the analysis of three short stories by three different authors of the ... -
The Odyssey and The Great Gatsby in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-14)The present dissertation will present the exploration of the literary references regarding Homer’s Odysseyand The Great Gatsbythat are found in the twenty-firstcentury graphic novel titled Fun Home. The ... -
“The owl and the nightingale” and “The parliament of fowls” : a comparison and contrast of old english words and borrowings in two mediaeval poems
Universitat Jaume I (2016-10-26)Borrowing is basically a process whereby a word from one language enters a different language. Various reasons try to give an account of the motivation behind the loan of words, such as completing missing information or ... -
The Pedagogical role of subtitles in foreign language learning
Universitat Jaume I (2020-10-06)The present study pursues to demonstrate how subtitles can adopt a pedagogical role in the foreign language learning process. Additionally, this study seeks the implementation of subtitles outside the educational environment ... -
The Phonological Evolution of current spoken English: a case study
Universitat Jaume I (2014)The present project aimed at examining the innovative phonological features of current spoken English. In order to accomplish this intricate task, several theoretical sections were introduced as essential background ... -
The portrayal of intergenerational bilingual contexts in TV seriesfrom a multimodal perspective: the case ofthe Villanueva familyin Jane the Virgin
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-09)Over the last few decades, television and film companies have started to show more linguistic diversity in their productionsby portraying bilingual and even multilingual scenariosin anattemptto ...