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Error Analysis: a case study with intermediate learners of English
Error Analysis emerged following the traces of Contrastive linguistics, which has been a recurrent approach for research on Second Language Learning in the last century. Errors had been considered a negative response to ...
La gestión administrativa municipal en los concejos urbanos navarros durante el siglo XIII. Pamplona.
El objetivo del siguiente trabajo es abordar la configuración del poder municipal
en la Pamplona del siglo XIII. Un tiempo marcado por las rivalidades entre los
diferentes barrios que configuraban la ciudad ...
Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and lakoff's conceptual metaphor theory
Our understanding of metaphor in language and thought has been reshaped, and the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), proposed by Lakoff and Johnson has become one of the most widely accepted views. The CMT claims that our ...
The Syntax of English and Basque wh-Exclamatives
(2017-11-24)
This paper analyses the syntax of English and Basque wh-exclamatives and compares them, exploring their common grounds and dissimilarities.
Hommes Fatals: Masculine Destructiveness in Alfred Hitchcock´s Rebecca (1940) and Sam Taylor-Johnson´s Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
(2017-11-21)
Femmes fatales have been and are still nowadays represented and labelled as inherently or innately evil figures who, by means of their beauty, lure and seduce men in order to deliberately destroy them. Female deadly figures ...
On the beginnings of Basque-American press: An analysis on the newspaper Californiako Eskual Herria (1893)
(2017-11-23)
The aim of this paper is to analyze the Basque-American newspaper Californiako Eskual Herria, based on the used, as the main source, of the collection of remaining issues of the newspaper as published within the Urazandi ...
Polysemy
Beginning with an explanation of lexical ambiguity in general, this paper focuses on polysemy. First, it makes a clear distinction between homonymy and polysemy, the two main lexical ambiguity types, to later finish this ...
VP ellipsis in English and Swedish: a comparative study
This comparative study analyses the verb phrase ellipsis phenomenon in English and
in Swedish, which exhibit both similarities and differences. In this analysis, VP
ellipsis –an elided verb phrase whose meaning is recovered ...
On Northern Irish English: A Phonological and Morphosyntactic Description
The present paper reviews the phonological and morphosyntactic aspects of the Northern Irish English (NIrE) variety. NIrE is the dialect of English spoken within the region of Northern Ireland, which officially belongs to ...
I Love You my Dear, but First Things First: Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" from In Love and Trouble
"Everyday Use" is a short story settled on the Sixties; an important decade which
challenged the American social values. The short story was written by Alice Walker, a
writer who belongs to the reduced ...