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Gendered Geographies of the European East in the American Cold-War Literary Imaginary
Bryla, Martyna Marika
(Open Edition Journals, 2023)
In the American Cold-War imaginary, the representation of Eastern Europe was strongly influenced by male intellectuals and writers from the region, whose works were celebrated in the US not only for their artistic merits ... -
Glocalization in CLIL: Analyzing the training needs of in-service CLIL teachers in Taiwan and Spain
Pineda-Hernández, Inmaculada Concepción; Tsou, Wenli; Chen, Fay (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 ... -
“'I Have Every Reason to Love England': Dark (Neo)Victorianism and Transatlantic Radicalism in Belinda Starling's The Journal of Dora Damage (2007).”
Martín-González, Juan-José (Nordic Association of English Studies - Umeå University, 2016-12-31)
This paper provides a close reading on post-colonial engagements with American slavery in Belinda Starling’s neo-Victorian novel The Journal of Dora Damage (2007), particularly on the transoceanic links between Antebellum ... -
Incentivizing student participation in QAS questionnaires: an evaluation of a guaranteed prize system at the University of Malaga
Vereda-Alonso, Cristina; Cerrillo-González, María del Mar; Gómez-Lahoz, César; Villén-Guzmán, María Dolores; Vereda-Alonso, Carlos (MDPI, 2024-02-21)
This paper investigates the effects of a guaranteed prize incentive, in the form of an extra score, on student engagement in the quality assurance system (QAS) questionnaires employed for evaluating teaching performance ... -
Jaded selves and body distance: a case study of Cotard’s syndrome in “Infinite Jest”.
Chapman, Ana María (Universidad de La Rioja, 2020-12-23)
his article attempts to betoken the relevance of emotions and sensations arousing from the body for the reviving of the self in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. The novel discerns a world where the oversaturation of ... -
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 ... -
Liminal Encounters between Literature and Music in Contemporary British Women's Short Stories.
Lara-Rallo, Carmen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020-01-03)
This chapter examines how the short story offers a fertile ground not just for the depiction of the crossing of national, ethnic, and cultural boundaries, but also for the challenge to the barriers traditionally dividing ... -
Mobile-assisted learning and higher-education ESP: English for physiotherapy
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (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 ... -
Motor-type aphasia in English and Spanish and its relation to the linguistic variables intervening in reading.
Vereda-Alonso, Cristina; González-Sánchez, Mercedes (De Gruyter Poland, 2021-10-18)
This pilot study was designed to explore the way linguistic variables affect reading in English and Spanish in the context of motor-type aphasia. The participants were two speakers with English L1, two English-Spanish ... -
Music as a Medium of Instruction (MMI): A new pedagogical approach to English language teaching for students with and without music training
Fernández de Cañete García, Claudia; Pineda-Hernández, Inmaculada Concepción; Waddell, George (Sage, 2022-07-09)
Recent research shows that musical training improves children’s development of oral and aural skills. This study focuses on developing and testing a methodological framework (Music as a Medium of instruction, MMI) in ... -
Neo-Victorian Incest Trauma and the Fasting Body in Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (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, ... -
Neo-Victorian Transcorporeality: Narrating Julia Pastrana's Body.
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (Universitat Jaume I, 2023-05-15)
Julia Pastrana (1834-1860) features prominently in neo-Victorian biofiction, which is probably indebted to her tragic life and posthumous exploitation in the hands of her husband-manager Theodore Lent. Pastrana’s career ... -
'No cat could be that hungry!’ This/that as Intensifiers in American English
Calle-Martín, Javier (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 ... -
“Not the Kind of Thing Anyone Wants to Spell Out”: Lesbian Silence in Emma Donoghue’s Neo-Victorian Representation of the Codrington Divorce
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (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 ... -
On linearization as part of narrow syntax. The case of OSV/OVS structures.
Castillo-Orihuela, Concepción (The Slovak Association for the Study of English, 2017)
In this paper I explore an approach to linearization where this is part of core or narrow syntax. Based upon Kayne´s (2011/2013) algorithm that processing follows the order of production, that is from left-to-right, and ... -
On the rise and diffusion of new intensifiers: this/that in some asian varieties of english
Calle-Martín, Javier; Lorente-Sánchez, Juan (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 ... -
Orientation towards otherness in the social and literary spaces of today’s Europe
Arias-Doblas, María Rosario; Bryla, Martyna Marika (Palgrave Communications, 2018)
This paper addresses current narratives on refugees and Muslim others within the social and literary spaces of today’s Europe. Drawing on Sara Ahmed and others, it sets out to better comprehend what lies behind European ... -
Pearl Cleage: entre la esperanza y la desesperación
Pineda-Hernández, Inmaculada Concepción (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 ... -
Pictures Worth a Thousand Words: Metaphorical Images of Textual Interdependence.
Lara-Rallo, Carmen (The Nordic Association for English Studies, 2009)
The forty-year history of the notion of intertextuality has witnessed the proliferation of an increasing number of divergent and even contradictory approaches to the unavoidably connective nature of texts. Many of such ... -
Piecing Together: Body Control, Mutability and Entertainment Technology in Infinite Jest.
Chapman, Ana María (Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)
The aim of this essay is to explore body representation and its significance in David Foster Wallace’s novel Infinite Jest (1996). By doing so, it will correlate (ab)use and domination of entertainment to the description ...