Llengües i Literatures Modernes i Estudis Anglesos: Recent submissions
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The publication of Mrs. Dalloway in Catalonia: Is it possible to reconcile commercial interest and culture?
Writer and translator Carles Miró, observed that the latest translation of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway was simply a copy typed anew from the 1930 original translation of the text by Cèsar August Jordana. The copy-editor ...
Ab urbe deleta. Per a una introducció a la narrativa de Miquel de Palol
A Les Concessions, un grup de brètols entra a la casa del protagonista, el peguen i amunteguen els llibres per calar-hi foc, tot recitant els noms dels autors, de Heidegger a D'Annunzio, de «Ridruèèèèèèju» a «La Rochefoucalu».
Lag effects in grammar learning: A desirable difficulties perspective
This paper examined lag effects in the learning of second language (L2) grammar. Moreover, following the Desirable Difficulty Framework for L2 practice, the present study investigated whether lag effects could be explained ...
The Monophthongs of Traditional Cockney and Popular London Speech in Context
[eng] The paper examines the pure vowels of Traditional Cockney as pronounced in connected speech by three elderly male speakers and compares the F1 and F2 values with those obtained for RP by Deterding, and those from a ...
Variation in Traditional Cockney and Popular London Speech
In this paper I examine recordings of two elderly Londoners, one male and one female, in an attempt to show the range of variation that can be found in the traditional speech of London as regards typical features such as ...
Mujer, criolla y 'loca'. Autocensura y domesticación de Bertha Mason en la España franquista. Análisis de la traducción de Jane Eyre de Juan G. de Luaces (Iberia, 1943)
[spa] Este artículo tiene como punto de partida la otredad en el personaje de Bertha Antoinetta Mason, que aparece en la novela Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë (1847). Conocida como Bertha Mason, la esposa jamaicana criolla ...
Sujeto femenino y palabra poética. Estudios críticos de la poesía de Juana de Castro de Sharon Keefe Ugalde (ed.). Córdoba, Diputación de Córdoba, 2002
Nin Juana Castro nin Sharon Keefe Ugalde precisan presentación entre aqueles que lle sigan o rastro á poesía española recente de autoría feminina. Juana Castro (Villanueva de Córdoba, 1945), vén artellando desde 1978, ano ...
Fronted nuclei: narrow focus in Spanish and English
This paper is an attempt to show that fronted nuclei, if not as abundant as in English, do nevertheless, along with other means of highlighting, play a significant role in Spanish intonation. Although the overriding tendency ...
The Metaphorical Conceptualization of Sadness in the Anglo-Saxon Elegies
The aim of this paper is to explore the predominant metaphorical conceptualization of sadness in three Old English elegiac monologues whose main themes are the pain and solitude of exile and separation. Taking as a starting ...
Il dialetto napoletano si deve scrivere come si parla? Polemiche ottocentesche sull'ortografia del napoletano.
The article reconstructs the diverse phases of a 19th century linguistic controversy between the promoters of an orthographic reformation of Napolitan based on contemporary speech, and the defenders of the rules of writing, ...
A explosión feminista no Brasil: xenealoxías tránsfugas da cuarta onda
Ressenyes de: Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda (org.) (2018). Explosão feminista: Arte, cultura, política e universidade (São Paulo: Companhia das Letras) | Coleção «Pensamento feminista» (2019-2020). (Rio de Janeiro: Bazar do Tempo)
The biography of Adelaide de la Thoreza: fact or fiction?
This article centres on the first part of James Cameron's 1878 biography of Adelaida de la Thoreza, entitled Adelaide de la Thoreza: A Chequered Career, in order to briefly discuss the problematics of biography as a literary ...
Organizational and formational structures of networks in the mental lexicon: A State-of-the-art through systematic review
This state-of-the-art presents a systematic exploration on the use of network patterns in global research efforts to understand, organize and represent the mental lexicon. Results have shown an increase over recent years ...
L'avançament de la introducció de la llengua estrangera: una fugida cap enrere?
En aquest article es pretén traçar una anàlisi crítica, basada en els resultats de recerques empíriques, d'alguns arguments que s'han utilitzat per justificar aquest avençament, que s'ha presentat com una millora indiscutible ...
Amor e Identidad
El presente libro es una celebración. Celebramos que las Jornadas "Amor i identitat en la literatura feta per dones", organizada por el Centro "Dona i Literatura, que tuvieron lugar en la Facultad de Filología de la ...
Representació plàstica, viatge i ciclicitat a 'Quanta, quanta guerra...' de Mercè Rodoreda
[cat] Aquest article planteja la lectura de diversos aspectes de la novel·la de Mercè Rodoreda Quanta, quanta guerra... en relació amb algunes de les seves fonts i el context cultural en què aquestes la situen.
Extensive viewing of captioned and subtitled TV series: a study of L2 vocabulary learning adolescents
This study aims at exploring the potential of extensive TV viewing for L2 vocabulary learning, and the effects associated with the language of the on-screen text (L1 or L2), type of instruction (pre-teaching target items ...
Dante e i miti storiografici della letteratura catalana contemporanea
Se si prendessero i dati ricavabili dal censimento delle traduzioni come indicatori della presenza di Dante nella letteratura catalana novecentesca, si correrebbe il rischio di sottovalutare un fenomeno di ricezione di ...
Les llengües i la visió del món: relativitat lingüística i diversitat
[cat] La relativitat lingüística pressuposa que la llengua que parlem ens condiciona en alguna mesura el pensament. Aquesta idea sol ser a la base de l'afirmació que cada llengua implica una visió del món. El present article ...
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 ...
