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The role of self-concept and expectations in academic achievement: A preliminary study
Pettersson, Lin Elinor
; Muñoz-Luna, Rosa María (2015-09-23)
As early career students face new challenges at university, the relationship between L2 skills and academic success depends upon self-perception to a greater extent than previously assumed. Up to the moment, most levelling ... -
The Secrets of Alexis of Piedmont and A Niewe Herball or Historie of Plants in Glasgow, University Library, MS Ferguson 7: Edition, Corpus Compilation and Philological Study
Lorente-Sánchez, Juan (UMA Editorial, 2022)
La presente tesis doctoral propone la edición, análisis lingüístico y compilación de corpus de dos documentos médicos del período moderno temprano, a saber: The Secrets of Alexis of Piedmont and A Niewe Herball or Historie ... -
The somatechnics of enfreakment: literary articulations of the body
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (2015-04-22)
Lately, the Victorian freak show has attracted scholarly and literary attention alike. New critical approaches to the freak show set the European exhibition of human corporeal deviance apart from the American side show as ... -
The Standardization of Punctuation in Early Modern English Legal Proclamations
Calle-Martín, Javier (2017-05-29)
Punctuation is historically noted to develop from the rhetorical to the grammatical, from the speaker to the reader, the Renaissance standing out as the transitional period with the adoption of syntactic and pragmatic ... -
The status of English modals prior to their recategorization as T and the trigger for their recategorization.
Castillo-Orihuela, Concepción (ICI Publishers Panel, 2022-09-01)
This is an account of English modals that invokes their exceptional morpho-syntactic tense properties as original preterite-present verbs in order to explain their becoming T elements. Within the framework of minimalist ... -
The Supernatural as a Feminist Tool in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Writings.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911) is a writer who became extremely famous in the past, was later relegated to a very secondary and “non-canonical” position. She has traditionally been considered as a writer of sentimental ... -
The translation of reformist 19th-century English pedagogy in the United States: La educación intelectual, moral y física (1890) by Juan García Purón from Herbert Spencer’s Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical (1860).
Ramírez-Arlandi, Juan (Universitat de València, 2019)
This study examines Juan García Purón's Spanish translation of "La educación intelectual, moral y física" (1890) from Herbert Spencer's "Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical" (1860), both published by Appleton. In ... -
The use of Tik Tok in higher education as a motivating source for students
Yélamos-Guerra, María Salomé; García Gámez, María; Moreno-Ortiz, Antonio Jesús (Universidad de Granada, 2022-06)
This article presents a study conducted at the University of Málaga with the participation of second-year students from the Degree in English Studies. It focuses on a TikTok project that the participants had ... -
The vernacularization of non-native items in early english medical writing
(2017-04-26)Early Modern English is characterised by an extraordinary lexical growth motivated by two main linguistic processes, borrowing and word-formation (Nevalainen 1999: 332). Within affixation, prefixation grew more than ... -
The Visible and the Invisible Hilary Mantel
(2016-07-25)This talk addresses the scarcity of critical material on Hilary Mantel’s writing in the academy. It questions the suitability of the ‘origin’ paradigm within the criticism that is available, which closes off the excess of ... -
Tools for organisation and time management in your research.
(2023)At first glance, time management is an easy task, yet on many occasions we all fail to manage time effectively and make the most of it. As PhD candidates ourselves, we have tried -and failed- to control the amount of time ... -
Towards an Ambivalent Vulnerability: An Ethical Approach to Mother-Daughter Relationships in Contemporary British Fiction
Flores-Quesada, María Magdalena (UMA Editorial, 2022)
This doctoral thesis offers a study of the notion of vulnerability as an ambivalent concept in the context of contemporary literary studies. Given the attention that the notion of vulnerability has received in multiple ... -
Towards an annotation schema of financial discourse based on functional discourse analysis
(2023-05-12)The aim of this presentation is to explore the structure of economic opinion news texts and its implications for sentiment analysis. The Lingmotif sentiment analysis tool has achieved great results in detecting polarity ... -
Towards an Enactive Paradigm: A Cognitive Approach to Naomi Wallace's Spectator.
(UMA Editorial, 2021-01-26)This thesis started as a means to illustrate the necessity of new epistemologies in spectatorship analysis of theater. Numerous studies have attempted to approach spectatorship, however, a non-textual analysis is lacking ... -
Town and gown prostitution Cambridge’s architecture of containment of sexual deviance
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel (Peter Lang, 2022-10-19)
This book makes an analysis of prostitution in Cambridge in the Victorian period based on different social and cultural discourses as well as on archival materials concerning institutions devoted to the control and ... -
Tracing the Edwardian Artist in Contemporary Fiction
(2015-11-18)This paper deals with different representations of artists from the beginning of the 20th century in recent fiction written in English. -
Tracking diachronic sentiment change of economic terms in times of crisis: Connotative fluctuations of ‘inflation’ in the news discourse
The present study focuses on the fluctuation of sentiment in economic terminology to observe semantic changes in restricted diachrony. Our study examines the evolution of the target term ‘inflation’ in the business section ... -
Tracking the transnational trickster: Gary Shteyngart and his protagonists
Bryla, Martyna Marika (Nordic Association of English Studies, 2018-12-31)
The purpose of this paper is to analyze Gary Shteyngart’s protagonists in the light of his works, particularly his debut work, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (2002) and his memoir, Little Failure (2014). Drawing on the ... -
La traducción de relatos de viajes en Hispanoamérica y España: el caso de 'Life in Mexico' (1843) de Madame Calderón de la Barca.
Ramírez-Arlandi, Juan (Comares, 2024)
Frances Erskine Inglis, esposa del embajador español en México, publicó en 1843 un conjunto de cartas remitidas a sus familiares y allegados relatando su estancia en el país azteca bajo el título "Life in Mexico, during a ... -
La traducción del cuento de terror inglés en España e Hispanoamérica: el caso de 'The Apparition of Mrs. Veal' (1706) de Daniel Defoe
Ramírez-Arlandi, Juan (Peter Lang, 2022)
Aunque las editoriales siempre han prestado una especial atención a la literatura de terror, la publicación de A True Relation of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal (1706) por Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) hubo de aguardar casi dos ...