Llengües i Literatures Modernes i Estudis Anglesos: Recent submissions
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"And the House Burned Down": HIV, Intimacy, and Memory in Danez Smith's Poetry
[eng] Danez Smith’s [insert] boy (2014) not only bears witness to the intricacy of the intersection between queerness and Blackness in the United States of the twenty-first century, but also illustrates an overcoming of ...
[ressenyes] Roland Terborg i Laura García Landa (coord.). Muerte y vitalidad de lenguas indígenas y las presiones sobre sus hablantes. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2011, 285 pàgines. ISBN 978 607 02 2572 7
Sovint la motivació última de la recerca en llengües amenaçades és i ningú no se n'amaga revertir processos de substitució i buscar fórmules de revita- lització. Aquest és el cas del llibre organitzat per Terborg i García ...
Barceloński ośrodek polonistyczny: historia znikania, nadzieje i perspektywy w kontekście reformy studiów filologicznych w Hiszpanii
The process of closing the Polish specialization at the University of Barcelona began in 2013. As a consequence, the over thirty-year-long history of its existence at this university is coming to its end. The first Polish ...
"Histoire d'un Blanc" de Philippe Soupault une autobiographie surréaliste?
Poète, journaliste, romancier, essayiste – littérateur comme il s’amuse à se nommer – Philippe Soupault, l’auteur des Champs magnétiques, co-fondateur aux côtés de Louis Aragon et d’André Breton du mouvement surréalist ...
Giulio Einaudi: un estilo, una vida y España<em> nel cuore</em>
Aquestes pàgines tenen com a objectiu documentar com alguns dels autors més representatius del boom de la novel·la hispanoamericana va començar a aparèixer en l’escena literària i editorial italiana, gràcies en part als ...
Czy Gombrowicza czytano w Argentynie za jego życia?
[pol] Czy Gombrowicza czytano w Argentynie za jego życia? A jeżeli tak, to w jaki sposób? Artykuł pokazuje, jaka była recepcja autora Trans-Atlantyku od jego przybycia do Buenos Aires aż do śmierci we Francji. Artykuł jest ...
Six high schools with outstanding results in the PAU: The views of the English teachers and their students
For this research, six public high schools in Catalonia were selected whose students had obtained outstanding results on the English test in the PAU in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Interviews and questionnaires were used to learn ...
The Next Step: Darwin, Brontë, Fowles
The present article proposes Heathcliff and Sarah Woodruff as monstrous beings who reclaim their desire to be agent subjects in a society and a narrative which deny such a possibility. It would be possible to argue, however, ...
La transmissió lingüística intergeneracional en espais majoritàriament catalanòfons: el cas d'estudiants al·loglots al Berguedà i les terres de l'Ebre
[eng] This article examines intergenerational language transmission based on a sample of secondary school students in two areas of Catalunya, where for the vast majority Catalan is both the first language and the language ...
Between Hopelessness and Despair: Afropessimism and Black Nihilism in Ta-Nehisi Coates's Works
[eng] Most of the criticism that Ta-Nehisi Coates received in the aftermath of the publication of his work Between the World and Meorbits around its lack of hopefulness. Indeed, it is several times in the text that Coates ...
Incidental vocabulary recognition effects of subtitled, captioned and reverse subtitled audiovisual input
This study compares effects of brief exposure to L1 subtitled, L2 captioned, and reverse subtitled audiovisual input on three aspects of vocabulary learning: meaning, form, and pronunciation of target language words. A ...
Algunhas bases para comparar a obra de Rosalía de Castro e de Emilia Pardo Bazán
El objetivo del estudio es llamar la atención sobre ciertos condicionantes que deben ser tenidos en cuenta para una aproximación comparatista a la obra de Rosalía de Castro y Emilia Pardo Bazán en tres ámbitos fundamentales: ...
Audio-visual input for learning L2 vocabulary and grammatical constructions
This article addresses the benefits of audio-visual input for learning second language (L2) vocabulary and grammatical constructions. Specifically, it explores the role of frequency, the effects of subtitles and captions, ...
La traducció a Catalunya (2018-2019)
A Catalunya la traducció ha seguit tenint un paper molt rellevant en el món editorial durant els anys 2018 i 2019. La importància d'aquesta activitat s'evidencia en relació amb el total de llibres traduïts publicats, que ...
Paròdia sobre paròdia. C. A. Jordana reescrit per Mercè Rodoreda / Parody over parody. C. A. Jordana rewritten by Mercè Rodoreda
This paper proposes a reinterpretation of plot parallelisms between 'El collar de la Núria' (1927), by C. A. Jordana, and 'Crim' (1936), by Mercè Rodoreda. The comparative analysis aims to show how 'Crim', in addition to ...
Literatura o pensament
En els darrers anys he anat incorporant en el llistat de les meves obsessions la convicció que el trencament del nexe entre literatura i filosofia una unió vital en qualsevol cultura representa un dels problemes que ...
Immigration metaphors in a corpus of legal English: an exploratory study of EAL learners' metaphorical production and awareness
Metaphor is central to human understanding and communication. It pervades our everyday language and also abounds in specialized discourse, with legal language not being an exception. This is particularly relevant since ...
La poesía de borges: una ficción autobiográfica
La poesía de Jorge Luis Borges ha sido frecuentemente interpretada desde presupuestos biográficos; sin embargo, el propio autor era consciente de la naturaleza ficcional de toda literatura. La atención a la retoricidad del ...
Different starting points for early foreign language learning: A comparative study with Danish and Spanish young learners of English
This study compared receptive English grammar skills of two groups of 7‐ and 9‐year‐old Danish children at the beginning of second language (L2) instruction in English, and two groups of Spanish/Catalan children of the ...
