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Analysing Disney Stories: How Disney Princesses are Depicted
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06-25)We live in a globalised world in which what is considered politically correct is in vogue. Since childhood we understand that the knight is the one who saves the princess and not vice versa. Throughout this paper, sexism ... -
Analysing metaphors in commercial advertising
Universitat Jaume I (2015)According to the Cognitive Linguistic view, a metaphor (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) is defined as a tool which allows us to understand one conceptual domain in terms of another. At first, it was thought that metaphors could ... -
Analysing pragmatics in textbooks: Requests and topics in listening transcripts
Universitat Jaume I (2017-10-03)Textbooks are one of the main sources of input learners receive in the classroom. Most of the times, they are considered the key component of the curriculum in English Language Teaching (ELT). However, they have been often ... -
Analysing the speech act of refusing in Grey’s anatomy series
Universitat Jaume I (2016-10-26)Appropriate refusal interactions may be a difficult task for learners of English in a foreign context since they tend to apply rules from their native language to the target language when refusing. Consequently, they can ... -
Analysis and comparison of the emotions in novels of the 18th and 21st centuries
Universitat Jaume I (2015-09-17)Literature has experienced considerable advances over 19th and 21st centuries. There are many aspects which characterize each period; one of them is the expression of emotions, which has been gradually altered among both ... -
Analysis of metaphors in cartoons
Universitat Jaume I (2016-10-20)Metaphors are tools that help us to conceptualize life by establishing links between two domains (Gibbs, 2006). Lakoff and Johnson (1980) introduced the study of metaphors from the point of view of cognitive linguistics ... -
Analysis of Metaphors in Sports and Drinks Advertisements
Universitat Jaume I (2017-10-05)The aim of this paper is to reveal and analyze the argumentative value of metaphors as a resource present in advertisements. It proposes, in turn, an analysis and identification of such metaphors, focusing on the complex ... -
Analysis of translanguaging practices in multilingual educational settings
Universitat Jaume I (2023-06)In today's globalized world, where migration and multilingualism are on the rise, translanguaging has become a crucial tool for communication and understanding. Translanguaging refers to the fluid use of multiple languages ... -
Analysis of visual metaphors in social media
Universitat Jaume I (2017-09-26)From a Cogntive Linguistics point of view, a metaphor was understood as a tool that allows us to understand one conceptual domain in terms of another (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980). Originally, metaphors were only considered ... -
Analyzing metaphors in Oncology texts
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Anglicisms in the Technology Section of the Spanish Press: A Corpus-based Analysis
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06-22)Globalisation and the power of English as Lingua Franca (ELF) in different spheres have had a great impact on the spread of English all over the world. Several Anglicisms have been loaned to other languages, which have ... -
Anglo-Saxons and Vikings: a historical study
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-11)The Anglo-Saxon period in England was considered a century of changes, especially for the English territory due to the fortuitous arrival of the inhabitants of Scandinavia known as Vikings. These newcomers generated a ... -
Anti-Child Trafficking Messages in Music: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-10)The huge social impact of technological networks has manifested how useful multimodality is in contemporary communication and in its meaning-making process. Over the last years, some multimodal studies have focused on ... -
Apologies in Fiction TV Series The Big Bang Theory
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-13)Since Austin’s (1962) work How To Do Things With Words there have been numerous studies about the way in which utterances are used as a mean to perform actions. The branch of linguistics that deals with this phenomenon ... -
Applying Categorization to EFL Vocabulary Teaching at Different Language Levels
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-05)Categorization is an essential cognitive phenomenon for human beings, as it allows us to organize the information that we get from the world. For this reason, categorization constitutes a major topic in the branch of ... -
Arthurian Literature in Harry Potter: a Brief Analysis
Universitat Jaume I (2023-06)The Arthurian legends, particularly the stories of the Round Table and the Holy Grail, have been a significant source of inspiration for many literary works throughout history. This paper presents an analysis of the ... -
Audiovisual Translation: The consequences of Plurilingualism, Humor and Cultural References on AVT
Universitat Jaume I (2016-10-19)Translation has been employed by humans for decades. Briefly explained, we can define it as the process that allows different audiences to understand mass media and literary productions that were not originally written or ... -
Autonomous learning through the use of mobile applications : Duolingo, Babbel and Busuu
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-16)The evolution of society produced by technologic advances has led to a world continuously connected to the Internet. Technologic devices and the Internet allow their users to obtain access to a huge amount of information ... -
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, ...