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T. S. Eliot and the Presocratics: Four Quartets as Lyric Philosophy
(2024)T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets is a complex masterpiece of lyric philosophy that owes much to the deep thinking of the ancient Presocratics. Burnt Norton is preceded by two epigraphs lifted from Heraclitus’s extant fragments. ... -
Teachers’ computer-assisted language learning (call) literacy: a comparative study in Spain and Iran
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2020)The application of technology in teacher education has received significant attention recently. It would be, somehow, impossible to deny the necessity of integrating technology in language education. The ... -
The Arrivant in Toni Morrison’s Paradise: Deviation, Iteration, Intersection
(Brill, 2022)This essay aims at applying the Derridean concept of the arrivant—as developed in Aporias—to the analysis of domesticity and transience in Toni Morrison’s fiction. I take cue as well from Sara Ahmed’s discussion on deviation ... -
The Cantos in Translation: The Spanish Variations
(Clemson University Press, 2024)In this chapter, the author begins by paying homage to Pound as an avid reader and prolific translator who read and translated from well over a dozen languages, both modern and classical. She praises him as also a staunch ... -
The distribution of verbs and verb classes in the English for-dative alternation: a lexico-paradigmatic approach
(Universidad de Valencia, 2020)Este artículo explora el papel de los verbos y clases verbales en la alternancia de dativo con for en el contexto del antiguo debate entre enfoques proyeccionistas y construccionistas (o de base sintagmática). Mi principal ... -
The effectiveness of including translation-related exercises in beginners’ L2 reading comprehension classes
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2024)This thesis is a study which investigates the use of L1 in EFL classes in an innovative way contrary to the commonly criticized principles of the grammar translation method to foreign language teaching. It approaches and ... -
The Endocrine System at a Glance: Problemas y técnicas de traducción en el capítulo “Chemical Transmission”
(UCOPress, 2016)El discurso científico, en el que se enmarcan los textos médicos, persigue fines informativos, didácticos y comunicativos. Por ello, atiende a las siguientes particularidades: a) la veracidad, b) la precisión y c) la ... -
The English ‘Time-measurement construction’ as a case of gradience: A Functional Discourse Grammar approach
(De Gruyter, 2021)The aim of this chapter is to show the adequacy of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG) to account for a case of gradience in English, a time- measurement construction that expressions like three months (maternity) leave ... -
The fragility of a more-than-human world: Ecological awareness in the poetry of Robert Bringhurst
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)This article examines the poetry and thinking of Robert Bringhurst, a 21st-century Canadian humanist who denounces the depletion of natural resources and environmental degradation brought about by the practices of ... -
‘The Hard Worldly Basis’: History and Infrastructure in Henry James's ‘Julia Bride’
(John Hopkins University Press, 2021)“Julia Bride” is a narrative haunted by the “disgusting humiliating thing” implied in the disreputable lives the protagonist and her mother have led. Their shared scandalous history is described as a “superstructure raised ... -
The intercultural society and the English language in the Italian primary Scholl
(Comares, 2021)The human being lives in a universe made up of meanings, which are inscribed in a symbolic system, and in relation to them builds his story. Symbolic systems become meanings and values, and language, the symbolic system ... -
The language of adventure tourism and its key terms in English and Spanish
(2024)El turismo de aventura se concibe como un tipo de turismo alternativo que escapa de otras prácticas comunes, como son el turismo de sol y playa o el turismo cultural. En particular, este segmento supone a un turista que ... -
The Language of Adventure tourism and its Key Terms in English and Spanish
(UCOPress, 2024)Adventure tourism is conceived as a type of alternative tourism that moves away from typical practices, such as sun and beach or cultural tourism. In particular, this segment implies a tourist who assumes an active role ... -
The lexicogrammatical profile of non-agentive deverbal -er nominals: a usage-based approach
(Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2023)In this paper we analyse the lexicogrammatical profile of 30 non-agentive deverbal -er nominalisations, showing that the different semantic types that middle structures instantiate in Heyvaert’s (2003) usage-based ... -
The middle construction and some machine translation issues: exploring the process of compositional cospecification in quality-oriented middles
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024)This paper aims at exploring the colloconstructional analysis of multiword units (MWU) in machine translation regarding the middle construction in terms of compositional cospecification (Yoshimura, 1998; Yoshimura & Taylor, ... -
The mind is all the animals it has attended: limitrophy and porous borders in the poetry of Robert Bringhurst
(Taylor & Francis, 2024)As an ecopoet intellectually alert to the conundrums posed by the Anthropocene, Canadian poet-philosopher Robert Bringhurst explores in his work the entanglements of the perceiving subject and the perceived world as mutually ... -
The Multitudinous Sparseness of Space in Harry Thurston’s Broken Vessel
(University of Lublin, 2020)In January and February 2000, Canadian poet-naturalist Harry Thurston (b. 1950) spent 35 days in the Sahara with a team of archaeologists conducting research at the Egyptian oasis of Dakhleh in the Western Desert. Confronted ... -
The Politics of Transparency in Modern American Fiction. Fear, Secrecy, and Exposure
(Camden House, Boydell & Brewer, 2024)In the twenty-first century, transparency has become an ambiguous buzzword both in the public and the private realms (e.g., Wikileaks and the Snowden affair; social media). This volume takes its cue from the emerging field ... -
The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Bilingual Education: A Study on The Improvement of The Oral Language Skill
(Hipatia Press, 2017)The emotional dimension of learning can hinder or help to determine the success of the cognitive development of students in bilingual education settings. The objective of this study is to enquire how effectively the ...