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Discourse, Semantics and Metonymy
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2007)In current research on discourse analysis and on metonymy there is an idea that is missing: the study of the discourse potential of metonymic activity. The reasons for this are to be found, in all likelihood, on the one ... -
The rhetorical dimension of printed advertising: a discourse-analytical approach
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2007)he study of the rhetorical uses of language in advertising can be approached from different disciplines –discourse analysis, media studies, metaphor theory–. Although normally focusing on different aspects according to ... -
Presentación: Metáfora y discurso
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Diachronic change in the semantic configuration of six verb-preposition combinations
Universitatea Petru Maior (2007)In this paper we analyse the semantic load that prepositions In and On contribute to six verb-preposition combinations following the syntactic pattern “V + prep. + n/pron.”. The analysis is grounded on real language ... -
The Digital representation of an industrial cluster through its corporate website image: online discourse and genre analysis
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2007)The corporate (website) image offered by industrial clusters in general and by the Spanish ceramic industrial cluster in particular is enhanced by the use of genres that fit and follow the logic of the times in terms of ... -
Developing pragmatic awareness of suggestions in the EFL classroom: A focus on instructional effects
University of New Brunswick (2007)The role of instruction to develop learners’ pragmatic competence in both second and foreign language contexts has recently motivated a great deal of research. However, most of this research has adopted an explicit ... -
Evaluative language in peer review referee reports
Elsevier (2008)Most international journals and conferences currently use the peer review system to ensure the quality of their contributions. Among the various types of peer review, the "blind" and the "anonymous" review seem to be the ... -
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Universitat Jaume I. Institut Universitari d’Investigació Feminista i de gènere (2008) -
The presentation of self in résumés: an intercultural approach
Università degli Studi di Foggia (2008)In this paper, résumés in two languages and two cultures, Peninsular Spanish and American English, are analysed. For this qualitative analysis, we have relied on the dual perspective proposed by Flowerdew (2005) which ... -
El contexto social del 68 en el discurso cinematográfico: Milou en Mai
Universitat Jaume I. Seminari d'Investigació Feminista (2008)Mayo del 68 francés ha sido llevado a la pantalla en numerosas producciones audiovisuales, que han tratado este tema desde diversos géneros y enfoques. Un ejemplo muy ilustrativo es Milou en Mai, película realizada por ... -
18th century scientific writing: A study of make complex predicates in the Coruña Corpus
International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (2008)Complex predicates formed by the verb make plus a noun are suitable for being studied historically with very interesting results, as it was observed in previous literature. However, our interest lies in tracing, comparing ... -
Functional Approach to Multiliteracy
Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (2008)This paper presents a cybertask designed to be performed by students of journalism within the subject “English for Journalists”. As a departure point, students were provided with a website which gives access to all the ... -
Learning how to mitigate requests throught an explicit pragmatics-based method
Servicio de Publicacións da Universidade de Vigo (2008)It is widely agreed that the goal of language teaching is to develop learners’ communicative competence (Usó-Juan and Martínez-Flor, 2006). Consequently, instructional practices should focus not just on the knowledge ... -
Teaching learners to appropriately mitigate requests
Oxford University Press (2008)It is commonly recognized that, for lecturers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in a university setting, the goal of their teaching is to develop learners' ability to communicate appropriately in this language. This ... -
Reseña "Las Lenguas profesionales y académicas"
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The Interactive Effects of Pragmatic-Eliciting Tasks and Pragmatic Instruction
American Council on the teaching of foreign languages (2008)The effects of data-gathering methods on pragmatic data have been well documented, yet an inquiry into the interactive effects of assessment tasks with pragmatic instruction has received scant attention. This study ... -
Teaching Intercultural Communicative Competence through the Four Skills
Universidad de Alicante (2008)Nowadays, the most accepted instructional framework in second or foreign language (L2) programs is Communicative Language Teaching, whose main goal is to increase learners’ communicative competence. This theoretical ... -
English Communication for International Business II
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2008)ENGLISH COMMUNICATION FOR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS II is the second book of a collection oftwo addressed to those students involved in learning English to communicate in business contexts. As the previous one, the book ... -
Patient-directed medicine labeling: Text differences between the United States and Spain
Equinox (2008)As part of a larger project to examine the complexities of patient adherence to medical directions, the current study compares written information given with prescribed medicines to patients in the United States (US) and ...