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Wordarrows: The performative power of language in N. Scott Momaday’s non-fiction work
(Universitat Jaume I, 2012-12)
This article focuses on two non-fiction works by Native American author N. Scott Momaday: his 1969 historical memoir The Way to Rainy Mountain and his essay collection The Man Made of Words It specifically tackles performative ...
Book review: Michael Rundell. Macmillan Phrasal Verbs Plus
(Universitat Jaume I, 2012-07)
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, ...
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, ...
The effect of L4 on translation students’ L1/L2 writing scripts
(Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos, 2021)
The aim of this study was to determine whether learning how to use certain microparametric aspects – adverbial pronouns – in L4 (French) had an effect on students’ L1/L2 (Catalan) writing scripts. The study was conducted ...
Translation and telefiction: Multimodal analysis of paratextual pieces of HBO’s Looking
(Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos, 2021)
This paper presents an analysis of the trailers of a telefiction series originally produced in English and simultaneously distributed in Spanish in Latin America. Looking (aired between 2014 and 2016 by HBO) was a contemporary ...
Preface in memoriam of Raquel Segovia Martín: Translation studies and film studies: New trends
(Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos, 2021)
This is the fourteenth issue of Language Value, the journal created by the Department of English Studies at Universitat Jaume I (UJI) over 12 years ago. Since its beginning, the journal has grown and progressed, and, at ...