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The Effect of visibility gesture production and their relation with accuracy : listening to our hands
(Universitat Jaume I, 2016-10-18)
Do we only gesture for our listeners? This study examined the relation between gestures and
visibility, looking at how gesture production is affected in visibility and nonvisible conditions.
Participants were paired and ...
Love and death in Shakespeare
(Universitat Jaume I, 2016-10-18)
This work is focused on the importance of introducing the concepts of love and
death in William Shakespeare’s literature. William Shakespeare was, and is still, one of
the most influential and well – known writers in the ...
Bilingualised LSP dictionary : gender violence
(Universitat Jaume I, 2016-10-26)
Lexicography has not been seen as a discipline itself. There have been
so many discussions about it and the opinions differ from each other.
Within this discipline, dictionaries are of great importance in the field.
They ...
“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 Age Factor in Second Language Acquisition
(Universitat Jaume I, 2016-10-20)
The present paper examines the age factor of learning a second language acquisition. Age has often been considered a major, if not the primary, factor determining success in acquiring a second language. The age factor has ...
Food for thought : analysing idiomatic english from advertising
(Universitat Jaume I, 2016-10-26)
Since languages are continuously evolving and growing due to technological advances and
sociocultural improvements, the vocabulary of any language becomes rich, too. Thus, English language
is flexible and has many idiomatic ...
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 role of women in Shakespearean tragedies
(Universitat Jaume I, 2016-10-26)
The role of women in Shakespeare’s Works is an important issue to take into account due to the different stereotypes that reflect the end of the sixteenth century. This article explores the particular feminine roles that ...
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 ...
Teamwork Activities for Students with Asperger in a Foreign Language Learning Setting
(Universitat Jaume I, 2019-09-30)
Students with Asperger present some difficulties that make them struggle during a
face-to-face interaction. The challenges they face are usually related to pragmatics,
sociolinguistics, semantics, and even discourse. ...