Llengües i Literatures Modernes i Estudis Anglesos: Envíos recientes
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The neuroanatomical basis of panic disorder and social phobia in schizophrenia: a voxel based morphometric study
[eng] Objective: It is known that there is a high prevalence of certain anxiety disorders among schizophrenic patients, especially panic disorder and social phobia. However, the neural underpinnings of the comorbidity of ...
El teatre italià en les traduccions de Narcís Oller
Al llarg de la primera decada d'aquest segle, Narcís Oller va dedicar-se, amb interès creixent, a la traducció d'obres teatrals. Entre aquestes, tenen un especial relleu les que va fer de l'italià, tant en sentit cronològic, ...
Vocabulary learning at primary school: comparing EFL and CLIL
Comparative studies on CLIL (Content Language Integrated Learning) often show an advantage in favor of CLIL vs. non-CLIL students. However, oftentimes studies are difficult to interpret because the hours of instruction ...
The Ethics of Care in the No Fire Zone: Anuk Arudpragasam's The Story of a Brief Marriage
The ethics of care is a central element in the novel The Story of a Brief Marriage (2016), written by Anuk Arudpragasam in response to the slaughter which the Tamil community suffered in the final months of the Sri Lankan ...
Cuerpos que (no) importan y nuevas alianzas
A partir de una lectura de las teorías de Judith Butler sobre el cuerpo (en su obra Cuerpos que importan), este artículo reflexiona sobre cómo algunos seres son relegados a los márgenes exteriores de la comunidad, reducidos ...
AIDS Postmemory in the 21st Century: Rethinking the HIV Crisis Today
In this paper, I contend that both HIV and AIDS must continue to be seen as crises if thepandemic is ever to be brought to an end. I start by exploring the presence of death imageryin Danez Smith’s poetry in light of ...
El libreto de 'Victoria sobre el sol'
La ópera Victoria sobre el sol está considerada uno de los hitos más importantes del futurismo ruso, tanto desde el punto musical, escenográfico como dramatúrgico. El presente artículo analiza el libreto de Kruchónij y el ...
Crónicas, comentarios y noticias de temática literaria italiana en 'La Vanguardia Española' (1945-1962)
En este ensayo, concebido como continuación de nuestros anteriores trabajos sobre el tema, nos centraremos en el estudio de la presencia de noticias y comentarios de temática literaria referidos a Italia que aparecen en ...
The Bellipotent as Heterotopia, Total Institution, and Colony: Billy Budd and Other Spaces in Melville's Mediterranean
French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault first defined the con-cept of "Heterotopias" in his 1967 lecture titled "Des Espaces Autres"("Of Other Spaces"). Unlike utopias, heterotopias are real places thatare different ...
What is the best age to learn a second/foreign language?
The answer to the question about the best age to learn a second/foreign language is 'it depends'. It depends on who, where, in what teaching/learning conditions, and with what aims. Here are outlined advantages and challenges ...
Lingüística Cognitiva de Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide & Valenzuela, Javier (Eds.), 2012. Barcelona: Antrhopos
Lingüística Cognitiva, dirigido por Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano y Javier Valenzuela, es una introducción a las aportaciones de la Lingüística Cognitiva desde sus orígenes en los años ochenta hasta la actualidad. Con el ...
The decline of violence is surely a good thing
Despite the widespread belief that the world grows increasingly violent, Steven Pinker's 2011 volume The Better Angels of Our Nature convincingly argues that the opposite is true. Tracing the history of humanity from its ...
O ecossistema linguístico catalão e os discursos contrários à revitalização
A revitalização de uma língua minorizada no quadro de Estados de tradição e vocação unitarista provoca discursos reativos contrários. É o caso da Espanha e as línguas que, nas últimas décadas, iniciaram um processo ...
'Gertrudis' o el 'benifet inassolible'
D'entre els llibres en prosa que J. V. Foix va publicar al llarg de la seva fecunda activitat literària, la crítica sol diferenciar-ne, per la seva especificitat, Gertrudis i KRTU. Aquests dos llibrets van ser publicats a ...
Hawaii, Hawaii/Like a Dream/So I came/But my tears/Are flowing now/In the canefields: Beauty's Price in Philip Kan Gotanda's Ballad of Yachiyo.
Oftentimes popular culture depicts Hawaii as an ideal paradise, represented by images of '[p]alm trees, a distant mountain (frequently a smoking volcano), and a hula maiden, all surmounted by a splendid full moon' (Brown ...
L'Ètica del traductor: reflexions al marge d'algunes traduccions d'Alda Merini
Fa uns mesos, Prometeu Edicions va publicar, com a segon títol de la col·lecció «Pandora», un llibre en prosa de la poeta Alda Merini bastit amb material auto - biogràfic: Deliri d'amor.
Catalan beauty and the transnational beast: Barcelona on screen
This article explores the case of Barcelona as paradigmatic global city in such transnational productions as Vicky Cristina Barcelona by Woody Allen (2008) and Biutiful by Alejandro González Iñárritu (2010). Allen"s film ...
Using online databases in the linguistics classroom: dealing with clause patterns
[eng] In recent years, a corpus-driven approach to the analysis of language and the appropriateness of applying new technologies in language pedagogy have gained considerable attention. The integration of corpus applications ...
Second language writing development
Whereas most research on child second language acquisition has focused on the oral production of children, studies are needed to show their initial writing development in a second language. This paper aims to shed some ...
The development of receptive language skills from captioned-video viewing in primary school EFL learners
The evidence obtained to date supports the use of captioned videos for L2 learning purposes, such as vocabulary acquisition and the development of L2 listening skills. However, little research has been conducted with primary ...
