• openAccess   Discourse, Semantics and Metonymy 

      Otal Campo, José Luis 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 ...
    • openAccess   The rhetorical dimension of printed advertising: a discourse-analytical approach 

      Segovia Martín, Raquel 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 ...
    • openAccess   Presentación: Metáfora y discurso 

      Navarro i Ferrando, Ignasi; Otal Campo, José Luis; Silvestre-López, Antonio-José Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2007)
    • openAccess   Diachronic change in the semantic configuration of six verb-preposition combinations 

      Silvestre-López, Antonio-José; Navarro i Ferrando, Ignasi 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 ...
    • openAccess   The Digital representation of an industrial cluster through its corporate website image: online discourse and genre analysis 

      Edo-Marzá, Nuria 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 ...
    • openAccess   Developing pragmatic awareness of suggestions in the EFL classroom: A focus on instructional effects 

      Martínez-Flor, Alicia; Alcón, Eva 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 ...
    • closedAccess   Evaluative language in peer review referee reports 

      Fortanet-Gomez, Inmaculada 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 ...
    • openAccess   Llibres 

      Autors varis Universitat Jaume I. Institut Universitari d’Investigació Feminista i de gènere (2008)
    • openAccess   The presentation of self in résumés: an intercultural approach 

      Fortanet-Gomez, Inmaculada; Garcés Conejos, Pilar 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 ...
    • openAccess   El contexto social del 68 en el discurso cinematográfico: Milou en Mai 

      Segovia Martín, Raquel 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 ...
    • openAccess   Developing a Business Communication Master's Degree: Fulfilling the Specific Needs of the Industry 

      Palmer-Silveira, Juan; Ruiz-Garrido, Miguel F. IATEFL (2008)
    • openAccess   18th century scientific writing: A study of make complex predicates in the Coruña Corpus 

      Esteve Ramos, María José; Lareo, Inés 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 ...
    • openAccess   Functional Approach to Multiliteracy 

      Silvestre-López, Antonio-José; Navarro Coy, Marta 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 ...
    • openAccess   Learning how to mitigate requests throught an explicit pragmatics-based method 

      Martínez-Flor, Alicia; Usó-Juan, Esther 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 ...
    • openAccess   Teaching learners to appropriately mitigate requests 

      Martínez-Flor, Alicia; Usó-Juan, Esther 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 ...
    • openAccess   Reseña "Las Lenguas profesionales y académicas" 

      Palmer-Silveira, Juan Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos (AELFE) (2008)
    • openAccess   The Interactive Effects of Pragmatic-Eliciting Tasks and Pragmatic Instruction 

      Martínez-Flor, Alicia; Fukuya, Yoshinori J. 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 ...
    • openAccess   Teaching Intercultural Communicative Competence through the Four Skills 

      Usó-Juan, Esther; Martínez-Flor, Alicia 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 ...
    • openAccess   English Communication for International Business II 

      Fortanet-Gomez, Inmaculada; Ruiz-Garrido, Miguel F.; Palmer-Silveira, Juan 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 ...
    • closedAccess   Patient-directed medicine labeling: Text differences between the United States and Spain 

      Connor, Ulla; Ruiz-Garrido, Miguel F.; Rozycki, William; Goering, Elizabeth; Kinney, Eleanor D.; Koehler, Julia M. 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 ...