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Reinventing Female Fashion: From Victorian Apparel to Steampunk Expression of the Self
(2015-11-30)First impressions have always been said to be extremely important in most situations. Traditionally, outfit is linked to one’s conception of the society one lives in. Some scholars, such as Roberts, argue that fashion was ... -
‘Remedies to cure the diseases or ill-affections of the Eares, Eies, Nose and Mouthe.’ Punctuation in London, Wellcome Library, MS. 676.
(2023)Punctuation is an essential component of the written text, due to their shared history these two elements are bound (Parkes 1992, 1). Both modern and medieval punctuation are essentially of a syntactic structure, marking ... -
“Remembering the future”: shaping a collective future in Lois Lowry’s The Giver (1993) and its film adaptation by Phillip Noyce (2014)
(2018-11-15)Futures Studies is a multidisciplinary academic field that has developed in the last decades. Pioneering studies on the subject, such as those Wendell Bell (1997) or David Wilson (2000), have emphasized the meaningful and ... -
Restaging Femininities on the Neo-Victorian Popular Stage.
(2023)The neo-Victorian fascination with nineteenth-century popular entertainment has been consistent since Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus (1984) and it has proved a fruitful ground for contemporary authors to explore ... -
Revisiting the origin and development of pleonastic that in English
(2016-09-21)The origin of pleonastic that can be traced back to Old English where it could appear in syntactic constructions consisting of a preposition + demonstrative pronoun (i.e. for þy þat, for þæm þe) or a subordinator (i.e. oþ ... -
Sacred Sexuality: Spirituality and Wholeness in African American Women’s Texts
(AEDEAN EBook, 2014-02)Esta mesa redonda es una aproximación a la problemática del silencio de la sexualidad femenina en la literatura contemporánea feminista norteamericana -
Santé, bien-être et mieux-être : promesses et génération de valeur dans la publicité touristique
(2017-06-06)Des promesses de santé, de bien-être, de mieux-être remplissent la publicité concernant le tourisme de santé, voire le débordent. Décliné sous différentes facettes, le bonheur que le voyage procure s’oppose à un quotidien ... -
Scribal punctuation of coordinate and subordinate clauses in Late Middle English and Early Modern English
(2018-10-03)The study of punctuation has traditionally focused on Old and Middle English handwritten material—literary and scientific texts in particular, while the early modern period has been left unexplored (Calle-Martín forthcoming). ... -
Semiosfera turística: crear el acontecimiento
(2018-07-30)Si el efecto persuasivo culmina en el plano perlocutivo, la promesa gobierna el plano discursivo y con ello la retórica del discurso promocional turístico. Sobre esta hipótesis fuerte, fundamentada en la observación, que ... -
Sémiosphère touristique : la construction de la promesse par l’événement dans la publicité
(2018-04-23)Une marque de destination ou brand serait porteuse d’une promesse détenue par l’objet touristique véhiculant un imaginaire valorisant sinon euphorique. Sous-tendue par la doxa inhérente à la sémiosphère touristique, qui ... -
Sense of agency and the role of entertainment in Infinite Jest’s “Living Dead”
(2018-11-26)This paper attempts to betoken the relevance of emotions in the representation of the body and in the 'reviving' of the self in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. The novel discerns a world where the oversaturation of ... -
SentiTur: Building Linguistic Resources for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis in the Tourism Sector
(2018-04-30)The use of linguistic resources beyond the scope of language studies, i.e. commercial purposes, has become commonplace since the availability of massive amounts of data and the development of tools to process them. An ... -
Sexism in political discourse: a case study
(2023)It can be argued that language not only reflects gender inequalities but that it is also a key tool to perpetuate, shape and create these inequalities (Graddol & Swann, 1989, p. 9). However, in recent decades, the use of ... -
Sin novedad en el paraíso. Emociones, terrorismo y turismo
(2018-07-27)Los diferentes actores del sistema turístico responden a las agresiones terroristas de formas diversas. Analizo diversos medios de comunicación para caracterizar dichas reacciones y determinar cómo se regenera la imagen ... -
Sociolinguistic research on chinese children in Spain
(2022)Some studies have indicated that Chinese children face more difficulties than Spanish children when learning the Spanish language and, therefore, tend to have a poor academic performance in Spain. Obviously, as second ... -
Spelling Practice in London, Wellcome Library, MS 3731.
(2022)There is a growing body of studies describing the standardization process in Late Modern English (Auer, 2012, pp. 939-952, for example). The influence of the printed press, spelling reforms, normative grammars and dictionaries ... -
Tapping into the intellectual capital at the University
(2017-09-26)Abstract Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is as full of challenges as it is of possibilities. We will explore the challenges while seeking realistic solutions as eight Computer Science professors teach ... -
Tasks in english in ordinary L1 modules as an inclusive and viable alternative to traditional EMI
(2021)The present paper starts from the premise that, despite the fact that EMI has experienced an exponential growth in the last 15 years (Dearden, 2014; Fenton-Smith et al., 2017; Macaro et al., 2018), there are still a number ... -
That-clauses: Retention and Omission of Complementizer that in some Varieties of English
(2017-10-02)An OBJECT CLAUSE, also sporadically referred to as a COMMENT CLAUSE (Warner 1982: 169; Huddleston & Pullum 2002: 951), is that kind of clause functioning as the direct object of the matrix verb. In English, the most common ... -
The binary vs. privative status of verbal inflectional morphology: The case of Germanic.
(2023)This paper argues that the binary opposition [+/-past] entails that Tpast contrasts with Tpres in computing a more complex kind of t- or tense-feature in the morpho-syntax and in exhibiting one more Vocabulary Item or ...