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Analysing coercion in stative progressives in the Indian variety of the International Corpus of English (ICE).
(2016-04-21)Coercion is defined as “a semantic transformation that involves shifting of one type to another” (Pustejovsky, 1991), being a prototypical case the change from state to activity represented by the use of the progressive ... -
An analysis of the hipster (sub)culture and Its reflection in HBO’s TV series girls
Narbona-Carrión, María Dolores
(2018-11-12)
According to the casting call posted by Lena Dunham at Backstage.com, one feels tempted to classify the TV series Girls as a hipster show automatically. In fact, this is what its creators and producers have been trying to ... -
Analyzing Language Change in British Parliamentary Discourse: Power and Authority Markers, 1930-2000.
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2022)In recent literature, one of the processes of language change which has received much attention has been the concept of democratization of discourse (Fairclough 1992: 201, for example), which often falls under the study ... -
An Approach to (Vulner)able Women in Paula Hawkins’s Novels
Flores-Quesada, María Magdalena (2018-11-15)
The notion of vulnerability has had a very prolific role in the last years, as the term has been applied to many and varied fields of research, being contemporary literature one of them. Taking Emmanuel Lévinas’s notion ... -
Aquatic Cartographies: Oceanic Imaginaries, Histories and Identities,
Martín-González, Juan José (2022)
In her volume The Invisible Empire: White Discourse, Tolerance and Belonging (2009), Georgie Wemyss has discussed lascars as a case study of what she calls the ‘Invisible Empire’ (2009: 3). Unacknowledged and unremembered ... -
Aspectos lexicográficos de la correspondencia interlingüística de términos éticos y de evaluación subjetiva
Báez-De-Aguilar-González, Francisco (2015-07-21)
Sólo han pasado unas décadas desde que Grace Kelly enamorara al mundo occidental luciendo un práctico y estético pañuelo que protegía su peinado mientras conducía su descapotable. Y todavía sigue vigente en parte de la ... -
Assessing the Provenance of Constantinus Afrianus' Venerabilis Anatomia in London, MS Wellcome 290 (ff. 1r-41v)
(2014-10-03)MS Wellcome 290 is housed in the Wellcome Library in London. Referenced MS Wellcome 290, it is entitled Pseudo-Galen, Claudius, 131 – 201, and it comprises 56 folios of which, the last three, are blank (Moorat 1962: 186). ... -
Bodies in the Novel Infinite Jest
This manuscript provides a literary analysis of the use of bodies in the novel Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. The novel describes a world where oversaturation of external stimulation leads to the perception of mind ... -
Bodies in Transit: Re-thinking vulnerability and resistance in post-colonial neo-Victorian literature and culture
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel (2019-11-18)
The aim of my participation in this round table is to make an approach to an analysis of contemporary historical fiction through the lens of theories of vulnerability and resistance. In particular, I would like to address ... -
Border-Crossing Experience in Refugee Tales IV.
Lara-Rallo, Carmen (MDPI, 2024-02-08)
The year 2021 witnessed the publication of the latest volume of Refugee Tales, which chronologically coincided with the seventieth anniversary of the adoption of the 1951 Refugee Convention by the UK and other countries. ... -
Building the Great Recession News Corpus (GRNC): a contemporary diachronic corpus of economy news in English
Fernández Cruz, Javier; Moreno-Ortiz, Antonio Jesús (Asociación Española de Lingüística de Corpus (AELINCO), 2022-06)
The paper describes the process involved in developing the Great Recession News Corpus (GRNC); a specialized web corpus, which contains a wide range of written texts obtained from the Business section of The Guardian and ... -
Building up uniqueness within institutional, tourism-related home pages
Bugnot-Tripoz, Miren Aingeru (2016-02-01)
Institutional web sites put together and display a country image which represents a “decisive business card” as stated by Bonhomme & Stalder (2006, 1). Beerli & Martin (2004, 3) detail the dimensions and attributes of the ... -
By way of vs. by means of: on the Expression of Instrumentality in Middle English and Early Modern English
(2016-04-21)Grammaticalization is defined as “a process whereby a lexical item, with full referential meaning, develops grammatical meaning” (Fischer and Rosenbach 2000: 2; see also Hopper 1991; Diewald and Wischer 2002). According ... -
Cambridge Female Refuge Rules (1838-1844): An Institution for "Females Who Have Been Leading a Sinful Course of Life"
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel (2019-06-25)
The Cambridge Female Refuge was an institution established in Cambridge Church Street in 1838 as a House of Mercy for the moral rescue of fallen women. Prostitution was a serious preoccupation at the time for both town and ... -
Cambridge Prostitution and the Rules Governing the University Spinning House in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel (2017-04-19)
The aim of this paper is to analyse the situation of prostitution in Cambridge and its regulation by the middle of the nineteenth century based on archival research. Cambridge Universitiy was characterised at the time by ... -
Charting the Liminal Geographies of Eastern Europe in Joyce Carol Oates’s Short Stories.
Bryla, Martyna Marika (Peter Lang, 2017)
Framed by imagology and geocriticism, this chapter analyses American imaginative geographies of the European East in Joyce Carol Oates’s short stories (1984).1 I argue that Berlin, Warsaw and Budapest turn into liminal ... -
Chekhov in the Times of Lockdown: Gary Shteyngart’s Our Country Friends as a “Fable of Our Broken Time”.
Bryla, Martyna Marika (2023)
Inspired by the theme of the 2023 PAAS Conference, this paper approaches Our Country Friends (2021) by Russian-American author Gary Shteyngart as a novel which is at once atemporal and painfully contemporary. -
El cine como recurso didáctico para la enseñanza del inglés como lengua extranjera: la adaptación fílmica desde una perspectiva de género
(Universidad de Málaga, Servicio de Publicaciones y Divulgación Científica, 2014)Este trabajo doctoral comprueba cómo el cine es un recurso didáctico muy beneficioso en la enseñanza de una segunda lengua, ya que engloba no sólo elementos lingüísticos sino también socio-culturales, fundamentales en el ... -
Claude Cahun, creadora y observadora inconformista
Cortés-Zaborras, Carmen (2016-12-01)
A Claude Cahun se la conoce todavía hoy más en los medios artísticos por sus fotografías y collages que en los literarios por sus textos innovadores, desde los ensayos-poema, autoficciones cercanas a la novela de aventuras ...