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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 ... -
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Llibres
Universitat Jaume I. Institut Universitari d’Investigació Feminista i de gènere (2007)
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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 ...
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Llibres
Universitat Jaume I. Institut Universitari d’Investigació Feminista i de gènere (2008)
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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 ... -
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 ...
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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 ...
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Reseña "Las Lenguas profesionales y académicas"
Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos (AELFE) (2008)
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Brodway's Bravest Woman: Selected Writings of Sophie Treadwell
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2008)
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Learning to Learn in a Digital Context: Language Learning Webtasks for an Autonomising “Wreading” Competence
Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (2008)In this paper we aim to analyse how language learning tasks can help students develop an autonomising wreading competence, i.e. a competence involving the ability to read online texts and to construct one’s own text by ...
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Website Architecture, Information Flows and Cognitive Models
Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (2008)This paper explores the relation between new digital genres configuration and their users’ previous knowledge patterns from an interlinguistic perspective. More precisely, first we analyse two models that underlie the ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
