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Language Change in British Parliamentary Discourse: A Corpus-Based Study of Power and Authority Markers, 1930-2005.
(2024)From a political perspective, 1928 marks the beginning of a new period in the history of democracy in the United Kingdom, once universal full suffrage was achieved via the Representation of the People Act. Taking into ... -
Neo-Victorian Incest Trauma and the Fasting Body in Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder
(Nordic Irish Studies, 2017)The Catholic nuclear family, as a product of historical and cultural contingencies, has predominantly figured as dysfunctional in Irish literature. Emma Donoghue’s most recent novel, The Wonder (2016), builds on trauma, ... -
“Not the Kind of Thing Anyone Wants to Spell Out”: Lesbian Silence in Emma Donoghue’s Neo-Victorian Representation of the Codrington Divorce
(Lambda Nordica, 2013)This article looks into how Donoghue uses the trope of silence to reiterate lesbian history in her reimagination of the relationship between Helen Codrington and Emily Faithfull. I will argue that the public/private dichotomy ... -
The Deviant Body in Neo-Victorian Literature: A Somatechnical Reading of The Freak in Rosie Garland’s The Palace of Curiosities (2013)
(Universidad de la Rioja, 2016-04)The contemporary fascination with historical, social and literary representations of the deviant body calls for new understandings of corporeality that question the body as a purely biological entity, and invites readings ... -
Women and The City of London in Doris Lessing’s The Diaries of Jane Somers (1984)
(Universidad de La Laguna, 2014)This paper examines the feminine perspective of London in Doris Lessing’s The Diaries of Jane Somers (1984). Lessing offers a feminist vision of the city representing London as a stage. Janna, the protagonist, strolls ... -
Mobile-assisted learning and higher-education ESP: English for physiotherapy
(Lingua Posnaniensis, 2018)The popularity of Mobile-assisted language learning has increased significantly in recent years, and language teachers are still exploring different ways of introducing new technology into the language classroom. Up to the ... -
The Philanthropist in Neo-Victorian Literature: (Im)Proper Femininity, Gender Inversion and Freakishness
(Universidad de La Laguna, 2017)The present article singles out the female philanthropist in neo-Victorian fiction to explore the patriarchal unease regarding the unsexing effect of feminism in the mid-Victorian era as well as the literary constructions ... -
Spelling and punctuation practice in London, Wellcome Library, MS 3731 (ff. 3r–43r, f. 125v)
(Servizo de Publicacións de la Universidade de Vigo, 2023-11-24)A large and growing body of literature has investigated the standardization process of the English language in the Late Modern English period (Auer 939–948, Percy 55–79, Tieken-Boon van Ostade 37–51), ... -
Pearl Cleage: entre la esperanza y la desesperación
(Universitat Jaume I, 2012)El presente artículo analiza el desarrollo que Pearl Cleage hace de la oposición binaria esperanza-desesperación en su obra teatral. Se describe brevemente la vida de esta dramaturga negra contemporánea y se estudian una ... -
Contemporary African American Women Playwrights: Shaping Identity through Violence
(Open Edition Search, 2012)Cet article explore le sujet de la violence comme l’un des facteurs responsables de la formation de l´identité des femmes afro-américaines défavorisées, selon la description qu’en donnent les dramaturges afroaméricaines. ... -
Teaching ELF aware pedagogical strategies to EMI professors of architecture
(Estudos Linguísticos e Literários, 2020-04)The internationalization process of Spanish universities has increased the need for teacher training courses to EMI professors. These training programs have a dual objective, to improve content lecturers’ linguistic skills ... -
Understanding CLIL from an ELF perspective: language in Taiwanese primary bilingual education
(De Gruyter Mouton, 2021-12-31)Recent global developments have intensified the use of English as a lingua franca (ELF), the principal means of communication employed among speakers of different linguistic backgrounds to interact worldwide. Consequently, ... -
Glocalization in CLIL: Analyzing the training needs of in-service CLIL teachers in Taiwan and Spain
(Taylor and Francis, 2022-03-17)Glocalization is the local adaptation of global trends, and though it has been extensively studied in other fields, there has been a lower emphasis on it in pedagogy. Glocalization is especially relevant in education given ... -
‘The Egiptians adored the Sun, and called it the visible sone of the invisible God’: Clausal Boundaries in Early Modern English Scientific Handwritten Texts
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2018)In comparison with late Middle English, a period characterised by a high level of orthographic variation, the beginning of the 16th century witnesses the emergence of an identifiable standard English spelling, which was ... -
'A very pleasant, safe, and effectual medicine’: The Serial Comma in the History of English.
(Taylor & Francis, 2022-10-31)Estudio ortográfico de la coma serial –también denominada coma de Oxford o coma de Harvard por ser un rasgo característico del estilo de estas dos editoriales– en la historia de la lengua inglesa para indagar en las ... -
'No cat could be that hungry!’ This/that as Intensifiers in American English
(Routledge - Taylor and Francis, 2019-02-22)Estudio léxico-semántico de los intensificadores this y that como modificadores de adjetivos y adverbios en inglés americano, la variedad del círculo interno donde este fenómeno se detecta con mayor protagonismo. El estudio ... -
Design and validation of annotation schemas for aspect‑based sentiment analysis in the tourism sector.
(2019-10-29)The use of linguistic resources beyond the scope of language studies, e.g., commercial purposes, has become commonplace since the availability of massive amounts of data and the development of software tools to process ... -
Suffixes in Competition: On the Use of -our and -or in Early Modern English
(Servicio de publicaciones, Universidad de Murcia, 2020)This paper presents a corpus-driven analysis of the linguistic competition between the suffixes -our/-or in Early Modern English. It is conceived as a state of the art to provide an explanation of the development and ... -
On the rise and diffusion of new intensifiers: this/that in some asian varieties of english
(Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, 2021-12)Estudio léxico-semántico de los intensificadores this y that como modificadores de adjetivos y adverbios en cuatro variedades del inglés asiático. El estudio cuantitativo confirma, por un lado, la influencia del inglés ... -
'We kissed one another and parted good friends’. On the Expression of Reciprocity in Early Modern English
(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2020-06)El estudio cualitativo indaga, por un lado, en el proceso de gramaticalización y lexicalización de la forma discontinua anglosajona ælc + oþer en la forma fosilizada each other ya en el siglo XIII, que convivieron en ...