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The influence of social distance and power in email politeness in an academic context
Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas (AJL) (2021)This study examined the influence of social and power distance on students’ preferences of openings and closings and requestive strategies used when sending an email in an academic context. Students were more ... -
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 ... -
The interface between proficiency and pragmatics: A study on compliment responses
Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada, AESLA (2023)This study investigates the interface between second language pragmatics and proficiency by focusing on pragmatic awareness of compliment responses (CRs). The participants were Spanish learners of English as a foreign ... -
The multilingual turn in pragmatics: Is the use of hedges and attitude markers shared across languages in trilingual writing?
John Benjamins (2022-02-01)In the Valencian Community in Spain, the coexistence of Spanish and Catalan as co-official languages and English as a foreign language, which is learned as a third language (L3), shapes a unique multilingual setting. This ... -
The need for successful communication in intercultural and international business settings: Analytic and comparative studies, new trends and methodologies
Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos (AELFE) (2013)Communicating is a need in today’s business world; if professionals are not able to express their ideas appropriately, it will be difficult for them to reach positive agreements while operating internationally. This ... -
The Power of Words: Marcus Antonius’ Funeral Oration in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
(2013)En este artículo se estudia el discurso fúnebre de Marco Antonio en la obra de Shakespeare Julio César como ejemplo del poder de la palabra en la retórica clásica. Se resume la situación socio-cultural y política de la ... -
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 ... -
The Rhetoric of Emotions and Food Consumption in Desperate Housewives
Universidad de Valencia (2023)In Toward a Psychosociology of Contemporary Food Consumption, Roland Barthes defines food as «a system of communication, a body of images, a protocol of usages, situ- ations and behaviour». Taking into account that ... -
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 ... -
The Role of Politeness in Apology Sequences: How to Maintain Harmony between Speakers
Universidad de Sevilla: Grupo de investigación "la lengua inglesa en el ámbito universitario", HUM 0397 (2014)The goal of the present paper is to provide a discourse-based teaching approach for the integration of the speech act of apologies from a communicative perspective. In so doing, special attention is paid to ... -
The role of questions in English Academic lectures
University of Newcastle upon Tyne. School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics (2008)In recent times, researchers have shown an increased interest in the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP). One outstanding genre within spoken academic English is lectures; whose different linguistic and discoursal ... -
The Toronto Mindfulness Scale and the State Mindfulness Scale: psychometric properties of the Spanish versions
Frontiers Media (2023)Objectives: The Toronto Mindfulness Scale (TMS) and the State Mindfulness Scale (SMS) are two relevant self-report measures of state mindfulness. The purpose of this study was to examine the internal structure and to ... -
The transmission of the Agnus Castus Herbal: from manuscript to early print
Wydział I Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych PAN (2021)This article aims at understanding how scientific writing was evolving from the medieval to the Early Modern times through the study of two copies of the same text belonging to both periods: the Agnus Castus ... -
The use and function of "please" in learners' oral requestive behaviour : a pragmatic analysis
Universidad de La Rioja (2009)The aim of this paper is to focus on “please” as one of the most frequent modifiers used to mitigate the impositive speech act of requesting. However, apart from this main function, scant attention has been paid to the ... -
The use of the pragmatic discourse markers and, so and okay in academic conference presentations
Bahri Publications (2010)In this paper we analyse the use of some pragmatic discourse markers in spoken academic discourse, more concretely in academic conference presentations. We aim at providing insights in the use speakers made of the pragmatic ... -
The use of Wordclouds for vocabulary retention in the English for Psychology classroom
Universitat Politècnica de València (2020-09)everal studies have revealed that computer applications offer a vast potential for teaching and learning. Open Educational Resources (OERs) can be especially beneficial to generate innovative abilities in the classroom ... -
The Usefulness of Translation in Foreign Language Learning: Students’ Attitudes by Ana B. Fernández-Guerra
Lasting Impressions Press (2014)Several scholars have argued that translation is not a useful tool when acquiring a second or foreign language; since it provides a simplistic one-to-one relationship between the native and the foreign language, it can ... -
Thematic role mappings in metaphor variation: contrasting English bake and Spanish hornear
De Gruyter (2023-02-01)The present study investigates the scope of metaphors evoked by the culinary term bake in American English and its Peninsular Spanish equivalent hornear. The data analysed was extracted from the Corpus of Contemporary ... -
Three-dimensional metaphorical objects in street advertising
Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA) (2015)This paper aims at unravelling the role of metaphor in three street marketing campaign advertisements. Each advertisement is the product of a creative process involving metaphorical mappings from an urban object (shelter, ... -
"Thys manner of infirmyte the grete lechys of salerne clepyd obtalmyam": A study of medical terms in benvenutus grassus
Universidad de Zaragoza (2008)