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Exploring Learners' Backchannel Production in Complaint Sequences Across Proficiency Levels
(Gate Association for Teaching and Education (GATE), 2023-01-01)
To participate effectively in interaction, interlocutors should make use of various
resources such as backchannels. Through backchannels, listeners can, for example,
show attention and provide support and feedback. The ...
Adult Brain: Game of Metaphors for Understanding the Internet
(Universitat per a Majors de la Universitat Jaume I, 2016)
With the increasing apogee of the digital world and Internet use by older people, one may wonder how adults understand these virtual spaces. The aim of this article is to see to what extent the Conceptual Theory of Metaphor ...
Multimodal engagement strategies in science dissemination: A case study of TED talks and YouTube science videos
(Sage, 2023-03-18)
The growing interest on science dissemination offers new opportunities to communicate science openly to various audiences, but also brings on the challenge of adapting to an audience that does not share the same academic ...
Second life: un entorno virtual para reducir la ansiedad de los estudiantes de lenguas extranjeras
(Fórum XXI, 2021-07-16)
La adquisición de un segundo idioma es un constructo complejo en el cual no sólo factores cognitivos juegan un papel crucial, sino también afectivos. En las últimas décadas, el análisis de los factores afectivos en el ...
Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis for the study of lectures: active and passive uses of metadiscourse
(De Gruyter, 2023-03)
This paper offers a Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis study of how metadiscourse is used in university lectures. Metadiscourse is frequently employed in spoken academic discourse to guide the audience through the contents ...
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 ...
Metonymy and Anaphoric Reference: Anaphoric Reference to a Metonymic Antecedent in Dude, Where’s My Country, Stupid White Men, The Da Vinci Code and Deception Point
(Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I, 2007)
Departing from the postulates of Ruiz de Mendoza and his collaborators on
metonymic anaphora (Ruiz de Mendoza 1997, 1999; Ruiz de Mendoza; Otal 2002; Ruiz de
Mendoza; Díez 2004), this paper analyzes some of the most ...
Frames and semantic roles in metaphorical mappings. A contrastive study of English boil and Spanish hervir
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2024)
Conceptual Metaphor Theory describes metaphorical mappings as correspondences between domains. Nevertheless, the interrelations of the mapped elements still need to be characterised. This study analyses metaphorical mappings ...
Introducing Business Presentations to Non-Native Speakers of English: Communication Strategies and Intercultural Awareness
(Università degli Studi di Verona, 2019)
In international business environments, the ability to communicate effectively is essential. Good
communication skills help professionals to clinch deals, to sell more products and to enhance the economic
stability of a ...