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Changing spaces, expanding mindsets: towards L2 literacies on a multimodal reading comprehension course
(Universitat Jaume I, 2011-10-06)
Recent studies in the field of new literacies have indicated that a remarkable change in the way we access, consume and produce information has taken place. The boundaries between concepts such as authorship and ownership ...
Whole Issue
(Universitat Jaume I, 2011-12)
Whole Issue
(Universitat Jaume I, 2010-12)
Verb-particle constructions in the language of business and finance
(Universitat Jaume I, 2012-07)
Although verb-particle combinations are generally relatively uncommon in formal English, they occur with a certain frequency in texts related to the economy, and specifically in journalism and academic analysis focusing ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The use and abuse of language by a Chicano from Aztlán (both words unknown)
(Universitat Jaume I, 2012-12)
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. ...
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 ...