Listar Grau en Estudis Anglesos por tipo de documento "info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis"
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A cognitive frame-based approach to vocabulary teaching in ESP: Implementation of the Cognitive Frames Theory in Business English Courses
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06-23)The task of introducing new vocabulary in the English as a Second or Foreign Language classroom has always been a challenge for teachers throughout the history of English Language Teaching, furthermore the importance of ... -
A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of the Use of Metaphors in Lyrics
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-07)Metaphors are one of the most prominent figures of speech used in every language and they can be seen in any professional domain(Lakoff, G. & Johnson, 1980). These figures describe situations, objects ... -
A comparative analysis on the comprehension level of Southern American English and Southern British English on the part of Spanish-native tertiary students
Universitat Jaume I (2019-09-30)The main objective of this paper is to comparatively assess the level of comprehension of the Southern American English (SAE) and the Southern British English accent (SBE) which can be heard in the Shameless and Outlander ... -
A Comparative Study of Racism in Shakespeare’s Othello and Jonathan Miller’s Film Adaptation
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-30)This paper deals with the issue of racism in Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice, and its 1981 film adaptation directed by Jonathan Miller and broadcasted on the BBC. Othello is one of the most ... -
A comparative study of the linguistic landscape of Valencia and Castellon
Universitat Jaume I (2017-11-13)The purpose of this paper is to elaborate a comparative research of the linguistic landscapes of the cities of Valencia and Castellon, in order to determine which are the most used languages and what may be the reason for ... -
A comparison between the english and the russian Lady Macbeth
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-11)The aim of this study is to provide a thorough analysis of Lady Macbeth’s transgressive and disruptive features in several readings of this character in different periods of time. Starting from Jacobean England, moving ... -
A comparison between the English level and use of Information and Communication Technologies in Spain and Sweden
Universitat Jaume I (2019-10-07)In today’s globalized world, the importance of English is undeniable. Schools from all around the world try to improve the English level of their students and some teachers make use of ICT’s in their classes in order to ... -
A comparison of the image of women in the 20 th and 21 st century
Universitat Jaume I (2018-10-02)The aim of this paper is to analyse the role of women in the literature of the last two centuries, making special mention of the erotic interactions. In this study, we will try to compare the image of women portrayed in ... -
A Comparison of the Use of Literary Devices in Fantastic Literature: The Hobbit by Tolkien and Seraphina by Hartman
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-26)The purpose of this study is to compare the literary devices used in The Hobbit, novel from the 20th century and Seraphina, novel from the 21st century. A historical background will be provided on the fantasy genre and ... -
A Corpus-Based Analysis of Gender Differences as regards the Use of Language in Travel Blogs
Universitat Jaume I (2020-10-06)The emergence of the Internet, social networks and virtual platforms has fostered quick and ef ective communication between a large number of people from all over the world. However, the Internet does not only allow ... -
A Corpus-Based Analysis of Recurrent Structural Metaphors and Domains in Financial Times
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-13)The purpose of this undergraduate dissertation is to analyze a corpus extracted from the “Companies and Markets” section of the Financial Times. The focus of the analysis is set in the identification of the most common ... -
A corpus-based study of visual metaphors in anti-smoking advertisements
Universitat Jaume I (2017)This paper aims to investigate the role of visual metaphors in antismoking advertisements. With this purpose in mind, a corpus of 27 printed advertisements extracted, mainly, from Internet, has been compiled. The study ... -
A corpus-based study on social media english lexicon: comprenhensibility in ESL and EFL students
Universitat Jaume I (2017)The current status of English as ‘lingua franca’ acquired throughout the last two centuries, as well as the development and rise of Internet and social media have originated the emergence of a new kind of language with ... -
A critical study of metaphors in the economic field
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-13)This assignment has as main point to explain the process in which metaphors are understood as a cognitive linguistic process. Having several theories that differently interpret this procedure, two different theories are ... -
A depiction of Jane Austen’s society in Pride and Prejudice
Universitat Jaume I (2017)The aim of this paper is to analyse how Jane Austen depicts a fictional society in Pride and Prejudice, in order to explore her position towards this topic, as well as to understand the reasons for her criticism about ... -
A didactic proposal based on the application of a virtual digital tool
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-24)Over the last few years, there has been a growing tendency in the use of innovative didactic proposals mixed with more traditional methods to make students more interested in English language learning. Due to this, more ... -
A Didactic Proposal Introducing the Use of Metaphors in Video game ESP Vocabulary Teaching
Universitat Jaume I (2019-11-01)Conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) demonstrated that metaphors go beyond being simple embellishing instruments in human discourse, and that in fact metaphors (that is, conceptual metaphors under CMT)) are mental constructs ... -
A Didactic Unit Proposal Based on Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye (1970) for Students of EFL
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-15)Literature can be a successful resource for teaching English as a foreign language (EFL). The goal of this paper is to offer an improvement proposal to demonstrate the importance of teaching English through literature. ... -
A feminist analysis of the black woman in The Bluest Eye
Universitat Jaume I (2015-06-25)Identifying a feminist piece of writing or considering a particular essay as such is a very intricate issue, since the term feminism itself has been qualified by most philologists, psychologists and historians as a really ... -
A focus on pragmatics : an evaluation of EFL textbooks in presenting suggestions
Universitat Jaume I (2015)In the past decade, many different English as foreign language textbooks under the label of communicative were easily found in any syllabus. Being communicative involves a number of different aspects including the teaching ...