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Conceptual metaphor types in oncology: Cognitive and communicative functions
(Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 2017)
Este artículo propone un análisis de los tipos de metáfora conceptual descritos en la Teoría Conceptual de la Metáfora – imagística, orientacional, ontológica y estructural –, en relación con sus funciones cognitivas y ...
Collaborative teaching and learning of interactive multimodal spoken academic genres for doctoral students
(Universidad de Murcia, 2019-12-30)
The last teaching-learning stage in the education system is the doctoral programmes, which turn graduate
students into researchers. This evolution involves writing a dissertation, but also being able to discuss ...
Evaluation in discussion sessions of conference presentations: theorical foundations for a multimodal analysis
(2014)
Discussions sessions have not received much attention within the genre of conference presentations. In this paper, we present the theoretical framework that underlies the approach followed to analyse the multimodal expression ...
Manuscript contexts and the transmission of the Agnus Castus herbal in MS Sloane 3160
(Universidad de OviedoSociedad Española de Lengua y Literatura Inglesa Medieval = Spanish Society for Medieval English Language & Literature, SELIM, 2019)
MS Sloane 3160 is a miscellaneous volume containing one copy of the herbal Agnus Castus in Middle English. Traditionally, editions focused on texts in isolation and did not look in detail to the rest of the material, ...
Pragmatic Development During Study Abroad: An Analysis of Spanish Teenagers’ Request Strategies in English Emails
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)
Previous research has shown that adolescent second language learners benefit from pragmatic instruction during study abroad (Alcón-Soler, 2015). As a follow-up investigation, the present study looked at late adolescent ...
Translanguaging as a teaching resource in early language learning of English as a an additional language (EAL)
(Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, 2017)
Traditionally, language teaching has been grounded on a monolingual bias and the strict separation of languages has been conceived as a requirement to ensure foreign language learning success. However, the flexible use of ...
Turgenev’s appropriation of King Lear: A case of medieval transmission and adaptation
(Moderna Sprak, 2019)
This paper tries to provide a thorough analysis of Ivan Turgenev’s appropriation of King
Lear, the Shakespearean tragedy, as it appears in the novella King Lear of the Steppes (1870),
from the perspective of translation ...
Towards a multimodal perspective to assess pragmatics: a study based on complaints-responses to complaints
(UNED. Facultad de FilologíaUniversidad de Sevilla, 2019)
The purpose of this study is to provide insights into pragmatic assessment
in terms of appropriateness from a multimodal perspective at a
conversational level. The study involved the design of a rubric for assessing
pragmatic ...
Diversity in the language classroom: raising awareness
(2019)
From the Editors
Access to education should be universal in all cases; however, bureaucracy and policy conventions sometimes divert unconsciously from this objective. Although educational institutions have been rowing in ...