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Identity and social prestige in the Comunitat Valenciana. A case study on Valencian and English
(Universitat Jaume I, 2017-06-19)
This paper studies the case of the western variety of the Catalan language (henceforth
Valencian) as a sign of identity for it speakers in contrast to the eastern variety of
Catalan (henceforth Catalan), as well as the ...
Exploring factors that contribute to third-language performance anxiety in EMI contexts
(Universitat Jaume I, 2019-06-11)
In most cases, third language performance anxiety is influenced by individual factors.
Some of these factors include the level of willingness to communicate (WTC) from
speakers, their self-perceived competence in English ...
Developing Requests in EFL Instructional Contexts: The Role of Age
(Universitat Jaume I, 2020-06-02)
Over the last five decades, the field of pragmatics has grown largely, so many
researchers have attempted to provide useful approaches to teach pragmatics
in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) educational contexts. As ...
The Unacknowledged Nineteenth Century Woman: The Portrayal of the Governess in Victorian Literature
(Universitat Jaume I, 2017-06-08)
The Victorian era was characterised for being a period of changes not only in technology, politics and
economy but also in society, primarily with the growth of the middle class. This fact enabled the
proliferation of a ...
How metaphors describe them all
(Universitat Jaume I, 2017-06-13)
In almost every culture, evil deeds happen in darkness and they are usually made
by ugly people. This also happens the other way around: good deeds happen in light and
they are made by beautiful people. These aspects are ...
Apologies in Fiction TV Series The Big Bang Theory
(Universitat Jaume I, 2017-06-13)
Since Austin’s (1962) work How To Do Things With Words there have been numerous
studies about the way in which utterances are used as a mean to perform actions. The
branch of linguistics that deals with this phenomenon ...
The role of languages in the affective connections of bilingual families: A mother’s perspective
(Universitat Jaume I, 2020-06-04)
Swain (1972) proposed that bilingualism is the new first language for those children who, when born, acquire two languages simultaneously, due to the fact that they are part of a bilingual family. At present, these types ...
When the conversation doesn’t include you: representations of transgender identities in EFL source materials
(Universitat Jaume I, 2020-06-04)
Language has a strong symbolic power that needs to be understood in relation to its social
meaning. From a poststructuralist perspective, it is through language that individuals
construct and negotiate their multiple ...
A study on language use and language attitudes by arabs living in Spain
(Universitat Jaume I, 2016-06-15)
Multilingualism is already a key concept when dealing with languages around the world and the
Arab population in the Valencian Community, Spain, is a clear example of the presence of more
than one language living in a ...
Analysis of visual metaphors in social media
(Universitat Jaume I, 2017-09-26)
From a Cogntive Linguistics point of view, a metaphor was understood as a tool that
allows us to understand one conceptual domain in terms of another (Lakoff & Johnson,
1980). Originally, metaphors were only considered ...