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Translation and language learning: AlfraCovalt as a tool for raising learners' pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic awareness of the speech act of requesting
(Universidade de Brasília, 2009)
Interlanguage pragmatic research has shown that speech act categories and their realisation strategies are found across languages. However, they do not apply to all languages in the same way. Leech (1983) and Thomas (1983) ...
Developing pragmatic awareness of suggestions in the EFL classroom: A focus on instructional effects
(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 ...
The Digital representation of an industrial cluster through its corporate website image: online discourse and genre analysis
(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 ...
Presentación: Metáfora y discurso
(Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I, 2007)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...