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Ó labhraísí mé!: the past, present and future of the Irish language
(2020-05-25)
The case of the Irish language could be considered an anomaly – a nation that, in most of its territory, achieved its independence about 100 years ago should, on paper, not speak the language of their colonizers. However, ...
Off widd de spellin ov werdz: A Sociolinguistic Approximation to Respelling Practices. A Case Study of Scouse Alice
(2020-05-25)
A relatively uninvestigated topic in the literature (Sebba, 2007, p. 12), spelling variation is an interdisciplinary field interpretable as serving the purpose of revaluing the non-standard identities corresponding to the ...
War and cinema in the 20th Century. North and South Korean imagery in the Post-War filmography
(2017-11-24)
This written work attempts to analyse the importance of cinematography in the shaping of ideological ideas in North and South Korea. In order to do that, two movies with similar plots about the Korean War were examined, ...
Scalar Implicatures: a Gricean vs. a Relevance Theory Approach
(2017-11-23)
Griceans have always supported the idea that scalar implicaturesare Quantity-based generalized conversational implicatures (GCI). With the purpose of explaining this phenomenon, they derived their own principles inspired ...
War, Cinema and History. Prisoners of War in 20th Century Conflicts
Since the first films were created, the will of filmmakers to represent the History on the screen has been a constant. War, as a regular and important event, repeated constantly through History, would be one of the main ...
The Progress of the English Progressive
This paper addresses the diachronic development of the periphrastic construction,
beon/wesan + the participial ending -ende in Old English, into the progressive
construction in Modern English. Even though there are two ...
Scots Matters
Little attention has been paid so far to the complex linguistic situation of Scotland. In so far as the European Council is concerned Scots is regarded as a minority language, yet the UK government does not recognise it ...
Semantic Change: Synaesthetic Metaphors
Every word has its own history. Semantic change does not follow strict rules as other domains, such as phonological change sometimes does, but it does not happen randomly either. In this paper we will analyze a phenomenon ...
Welsh Nationalism: An Approach
(2018-12-05)
Combining both published and unpublished sources, in this work the nationalist movement in Wales is revisited. Welsh nationalism has showed a weak support in spite of having a culture and language of its own. We will try ...
Non-Binary Gender Identities and Language Use
(2018-12-04)
The sociolinguistic research that has examined the relation between language and gender has experienced a significant change in the past decades. As a matter of fact, a new approach to feminist theory that rejected the ...