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Love, longing and hope in three sonnets from ‘Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets’
(2017-11-23)
Christina Rossetti (1830 – 1894) has usually been recognized as one of the most prominent Victorian female poets both by her contemporaries and present scholars since her rediscovery in the 20th century. Nevertheless, not ...
The Syntax of English and Basque wh-Exclamatives
(2017-11-24)
This paper analyses the syntax of English and Basque wh-exclamatives and compares them, exploring their common grounds and dissimilarities.
Hommes Fatals: Masculine Destructiveness in Alfred Hitchcock´s Rebecca (1940) and Sam Taylor-Johnson´s Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
(2017-11-21)
Femmes fatales have been and are still nowadays represented and labelled as inherently or innately evil figures who, by means of their beauty, lure and seduce men in order to deliberately destroy them. Female deadly figures ...
On the beginnings of Basque-American press: An analysis on the newspaper Californiako Eskual Herria (1893)
(2017-11-23)
The aim of this paper is to analyze the Basque-American newspaper Californiako Eskual Herria, based on the used, as the main source, of the collection of remaining issues of the newspaper as published within the Urazandi ...
Challenging meaning types: a study on direct and indirect refutation
(2017-11-21)
Refutations, the expressions of disagreement in dialogue, are part of our everyday conversations. Arguments and discussions are present in our daily lives since every possible subject that anyone could speak about embraces ...
Analysis of EFL speech production data according to theoretical models : English plosives by Native Spanish speakers
(2017-11-21)
Within language acquisition, speaking in a non-native language accurately is extensively recognized to be the hardest skill confronted by learners. It seems an arduous task as it demands the correct employment of second ...
American English: speech analysis of the Southern dialect
(2017-11-21)
Language is a complex phenomenon every human ends mastering, independently of the mother tongue they have acquired in their childhood. In this globalised world, however, an increasing number of speakers are multilingual ...
The role of task repetition in L2 acquisition
(2017-11-24)
The use of tasks in language teaching has been demonstrated to be beneficial as it provides learners with the opportunity to develop their interlanguage by means of conversational interaction. However, as tasks are ...
A synchronic analysis of Indian English
(2017-11-21)
The present paper aims at exploring the impact that linguistic background can have on individual speech. After a brief review on how English became an official language in the republic of India, I will concentrate on the ...
L1 attrition: a case of a Mexican immigrant in the US
(2017-11-23)
This paper informs about language attrition by providing information about how language loss occur and about most important factors that have an impact on language loss.