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Semantic Change: Synaesthetic Metaphors
Every word has its own history. Semantic change does not follow strict rules as other domains, such as phonological change sometimes does, but it does not happen randomly either. In this paper we will analyze a phenomenon ...
Welsh Nationalism: An Approach
(2018-12-05)
Combining both published and unpublished sources, in this work the nationalist movement in Wales is revisited. Welsh nationalism has showed a weak support in spite of having a culture and language of its own. We will try ...
Non-Binary Gender Identities and Language Use
(2018-12-04)
The sociolinguistic research that has examined the relation between language and gender has experienced a significant change in the past decades. As a matter of fact, a new approach to feminist theory that rejected the ...
Striving for peace: Northern Ireland, from the Good Friday Agreement to Brexit (1998- 2020)
(2020-12-21)
Europe has historically been a battleground for diverse communities, many of which
fighting to achieve some form of power or sovereignty. Medieval battles between
kingdoms lead to wars between empires and lastly to modern ...
Women and judaism: diverse realities between the 19th and 20th centuries
(2020-12-21)
Traditional Jewish communities can be described as androcentric: males have
occupied a central position and they have been the ones to decide women’s place in society. The women archetype in traditional Judaism describes ...
Lexical development in early bilinguals: Approaching early bilingualism development in the case of Spanish-Basque bilinguals
Early bilingual toddlers who were exposed to English and Spanish from the very beginning were taken in order to participate in a study about lexical and grammatical development by using the MacArthur-Bates’ CDI in a study ...
Positive and Negative Liberty. On how Phillis Wheatley used the Pen as a Sword in "On Being Brought from Africa to America".
In recent times a growing interest and recognition of the liberation poetics of Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) has been identified by many scholars. Historically acknowledged as the first African American woman being published, ...
The Role of Morphological Awareness in Children's Reading and Writing Skills
(2018-12-04)
Recently there has been a growing interest in the recognition of the role of Morphological Awareness (MA) for children’s literacy development. The present paper analyses a compilation of studies dealing with the idea of ...
Pre-established Destiny through Patriarchal Forces in Elfriede Jelinek`s Die Liebhaberinnen
(2017-11-23)
The writer Elfriede Jelinek, winner of the Nobel Academy award in 2004, has demonstrated throughout her career how a piece of writing can go deep into people’s consciousness and make them reflect about class injustices and ...
The never-ending myth: revision of the western frontier in U.S. contemporary dystopias
(2020-11-24)
Even though dystopian literature transports the readers into futuristic fictional scenarios, its undertone mirrors the concerns and fears of the authors’ time of existence. Thus, the genre does not describe the incoming ...