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Changing Methodologies in TESOL
(2015-11)
The modal forms 'must' and 'should' in English academic discourse by Spanish postgraduates
(Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos, 2023)
This paper presents a corpus linguistic study investigating the use and functions of the modal verbs, must and should, in academic discourse. The study analyses a corpus of doctoral dissertations within two distinct fields ...
Whole issue. Vol 16, no 2 (2023)
(Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos, 2023)
Implicatures in the Tweets of Climate Change Skeptics
(Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos, 2023)
The article attempts to provide a speech act analysis of tweets which are posted by climate change skeptics. It argues that their deliberate flouting and violation of Grice’s Cooperative Principle show that substitute overt ...
Revisiting pragmatic tests in the FL context: Towards interactive tests to examine speech act performance1
(2015-11)
The aim of this study is to explore the task effect of two different research methods, namely those of
interactive discourse completion tasks/tests (IDCTs) and role-play tasks (RPTs). The two research
methods employed ...
Vol 13 (2020) - Whole issue
(Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos, 2020)
Book Review: Analyzing Digital Discourse: New Insights and Future Directions
(Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos, 2020)
Analyzing Digital Discourse: New Insights and Directions, edited by Bou-Franch and Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, provides orchestrated accounts of current trends in ‘digital discourse’, which seek to understand up-to-date ...
Book Review: Translation Quality Assessment: From Principles to Practice
(Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos, 2020)
With the growth of digital content and the consequences of globalization, more content is published every day and it needs to be translated in order to make it accessible to people all over the world. This process is very ...
Issues in aligning assessments with the Common European Framework of Reference
(2014)
One of the main aims of the Common European Framework of Reference is to help providers and users of
assessments “describe the levels of proficiency required by existing standards, tests and examinations in
order to ...
The Translation of Neapolitan mafia nicknames in the TV series 'Gomorra' into English and Spanish
(Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis Anglesos, 2023)
This study deals with the translation for subtitling and dubbing of a type of Italian expression called contronomi traditionally used by members of the Neapolitan mafia. We have focused on this special kind of nickname ...