Browsing Language Value by Keyword "Discurs--Anàlisi"
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A semantic and pragmatic approach to verb particle constructions used in cartoons and puns
Universitat Jaume I (2012-07)The aim of this paper is to discuss a special type of verb particle construction in English; namely, phrasal verbs used in cartoons and puns. Granted that the meaning of phrasal verbs may range from literal to idiomatic, ... -
An integrated model of metaphorical linguistic expressions and its implications for the semantics of verb-particle constructions
Universitat Jaume I (2011-12)The aim of this article is threefold. Firstly, in line with the current tendencies in cognitive linguistics, which direct research toward convergence, integration and a uniform theoretical perspective, recent developments ... -
Anzaldúa and ‘the new mestiza’: A Chicana dives into collective identity
Universitat Jaume I (2012-12)In this article I analyze how Gloria Anzaldúa’s seventh essay in Borderlands/La Frontera:The New Mestiza, titled “La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness”, condenses and portrays a development towards the ... -
Book review: Michael Rundell. Macmillan Phrasal Verbs Plus
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Conceptualizing humans as animals in English verb particle constructions
Universitat Jaume I (2012-07)Verb particle constructions with animal names used as verbs (‘VPrt critter constructions’), such as horse around, clam up, and rat out, are interesting because of their (i) grammatical structure, (ii) pragmatic function, ... -
Diasporic dialogues: The role of gender, language, and revision in the neo-slave narrative
Universitat Jaume I (2012-12)In this article I examine the creation of neo-slave narratives, or fictional texts written in the 20th and 21st centuries, yet set during an imagined period of American slavery or indentured servitude. In these novels the ... -
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Going beyond metaphtonymy: Metaphoric and metonymic complexes in phrasal verb interpretation
Universitat Jaume I (2011-12)A metaphor can combine with another metaphor, or a metonymy with another metonymy, into a single meaning unit, thus giving rise to either a metaphorical or a metonymic amalgam. The combination of a metaphor and a ... -
Jacqueline Woodson’s narrative style in The Other Side: An African American picture book for children
Universitat Jaume I (2012-12)The Other Side (2001) is a children’s story with multicultural characters and themes that can be regarded as an aesthetic exploration of the human experience in the process of the acquisition of knowledge. Following the ... -
Koritha Mitchell. Living with Lynching
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Lexical decomposition of English Spatial Particles and their Subsumption in Motion Constructions
Universitat Jaume I (2011-12)In this paper, we firstly present a tentative formalization of a Lexical Template (LT) and a meta-language for spatial particle semantics within the framework of the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM). The semantic module ... -
Memory and language in Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of mushrooms
Universitat Jaume I (2012-12)Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms (1994) highlights the difficulties encountered by Japanese when immigrating and living in Canada. This essay focuses on how Hiromi Goto uses linguistic codes to construct cultural identities ... -
Michael Rundell. Macmillan Collocations Dictionary for Learners of English
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Multimodality in discussion sessions: corpus compilation and pedagogical use
Universitat Jaume I (2011-10-06)Discussion sessions of conference paper presentations are spontaneous and unpredictable, in contrast to the prepared lecture that precedes them. These can be challenging, especially for novice presenters whose worst fear ... -
Strategic construal of in and out in English particle verbs (PVs)
Universitat Jaume I (2011-12)The central aim of this work is to describe the strategic construal of in and out in English particle verbs. The term strategic construal assumes the following: 1) exploration of strategic thinking in L2 learning and ... -
The use and abuse of language by a Chicano from Aztlán (both words unknown)
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The voice of the cypresses. Cyrus Cassells and the poetry of Salvador Espriu
Universitat Jaume I (2012-12)“To the cypress again and again” is Cyrus Cassells’s poetic response to the work of Salvador Espriu, a poet whose reception has been limited by his belonging to a minority culture and his commitment to the Catalan language. ... -
Topological vs. lexical determination in English particle verbs (PVs)
Universitat Jaume I (2011-12)The central aim of this work is to describe semantic determination, i.e., topological vs. lexical determination, by investigating aspects of construal (Langacker 1987) in English PVs with in and out. The paper focuses on ... -
Transitive phrasal verbs in acquisition and use: A view from construction grammar
Universitat Jaume I (2012-07)This paper surveys a number of aspects involved in viewing transitive phrasal verbs as verb-particle constructions in the construction-grammar sense of the term. The two word-order templates Verb-Object-Particle and ...