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The Black Sexual Body as Palimpsest
(2016-10-11)Análisis de las politicas sexuales a las que se sometía el cuerpo de la mujer negra en las colonias Norteamericanas del siglo 19 -
"The Cure of Bytyng" in London, Wellcome Library, MS 411 (ff. 56r-61r)
(2016-09-21)London, Wellcome Library, MS 411 is a codex in one volume which dates from the late fifteenth century. It houses a collection of practical treatises and tracts in English and Latin, in verse as well as in prose, on different ... -
The derivation of verbs in Old English and Middle English.
(Ediciones Complutense, 2022)Within the framework of minimalist syntax, it is argued that the core-syntax derivation of verbs in OE and ME (up to approx. 1450) is regulated by two licensing T(ense) heads (that is, two T Probes) plus a licensing v head ... -
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 ... -
The dissemination of English philosophical works in Spain via translations: The case of Siro García del Mazo’s 'Fundamentos de la moral' (1881) from 'The Data of Ethics' (1879) by Herbert Spencer.
(Universitat de València, 2017)The dissemination of English philosophical literature in Spain during the last quarter of the nineteenth century calls for an in-depth study of some of the works of Herbert Spencer. His most radical views were recognised ... -
‘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 ... -
The emotional impact of videogames and poetry.
(2023)When we are moved by a story, what affected us so? My doctoral project explores this question to better understand how stories convey emotion and move its audience. Inspired by the renewed scholarly interest in emotions ... -
The Enemy Within’: Liminality, Otherness and Neo-Victorian Gypsies
(2016-01-13)Gypsies, or Romanies, are a collective against whom, for centuries, white Europeans have posited a series of racial prejudices and stereotypes. Qualified alternatively as criminals, child kidnappers, or tricksters, gypsies ... -
The expression of sentiment in user reviews of hotels
(2017-06-09)The linguistic expression of sentiment, understood as the polarity of an opinion, is known to be domain-specific to a certain extent (Aue & Gamon, 2005; Choi et al., 2009). Even though many words and expressions convey the ... -
The Fabric of Digital Discourse: Analytical Techniques for Social Media Corpora.
(UMA Editorial, 2024)Las redes sociales se han convertido en un espacio crucial para la participación y el diálogo, influyendo en la configuración del discurso global. Desde una perspectiva investigadora, dichos medios ofrecen un vasto repositorio ... -
The language of happiness in self-reported descriptions of happy moments: words, concepts, and entities
(Springer, 2022-07)This article attempts to study the language of happiness from a double perspective. First, the impact and relevance of sentiment words and expressions in self-reported descriptions of happiness are examined. Second, the ... -
The Last Ten Years in the Bristish Education System
(Servicio de Publicaciones y Divulgacion Cientifica, 2015)Después de la Segunda Guerra mundial, Gran Bretaña se encontró con una escasez de trabajadores cualificados sin precedente. El problema más importante era como animar a la población más joven a continuar su educación ya ... -
The London Lock Charities in the middle to late Victorian Period: poor reform beyond venereal disease
(2015-05-11)The London Lock Hospital was founded in the middle of the seventeenth century to cure venereal disease both in men and women, following the trend of specialized hospitals that proliferated in the period. A few decades ... -
The Málaga Corpus of Late Modern English Scientific Prose
(2023-05-11)The Málaga Corpus of Early English Scientific Prose is a collection of English vernacular medical writing, consisting of three diachronically divided components, i.e. The Málaga Corpus of Late Middle English Scientific ... -
The morpho-syntax of OE verbs: The role of T(ense) and the role of v (=stem)
(2023-01)The paper is about the processing or computation of verbs in OE (and also verbs in the first half of the ME period). It is argued that T is the head that interprets the tau-features that expone as -d- for Past forms of ... -
The Morphology-Orthography Interface: A Needful Study
(2022)The affix -ful in words like needful and hopeful originates in the Germanic adjective full, meaning “filled to capacity” (OED, s.v. full, adj.), and has cognates in most languages of its family, both as a free-standing ... -
The Music-Hall Actress and Transcending Femininity in the Victorian Public Sphere: A Re-Orientation of Her Moral Status.
(Instituto Universitario de Estudios de las Mujeres (IUEM), 2022-02-18)The actress, like the prostitute, was one of the female figures who in the nineteenth century bore a certain social stigma for being professionally active in public and non-domestic roles that were considered vulgar and ... -
The Myth of U.S. Southern Poor Whites/"White Trash": Dorothy Allison's Literary Contribution to Debunking the Stigma
(UMA Editorial, 2021-12-16)Hasta muy recientemente, la historis de los blancos pobres (White Trash) en los EE.UU. ha sido tergiversada. A finales del siglo XX un grupo de escritores nacidos en el senos de la pobreza, entre ellos Dorothy Allison, ... -
The neural signature of syntactic processing.
(Ediciones Complutense, 2017)The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding about the processing of syntax in the brain and/or mind of speakers. The focus is specifically on the neural signature of the processing of tense features and of ... -
‘The night before beg'd ye queens's pardon and his brother's’: the apostrophe in the history of English
(Cambridge University Press, 2023-11-24)The apostrophe was introduced into the English orthographic system by the mid sixteenth century as a printer's mark especially designed ‘for the eye rather than for the ear’ (Sklar 1976: 175; Little 1986: 15). Whereas the ...