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A History of the English Language Online Course
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] This paper is a general illustrated description of the contents and structure of the History of the English Language (HEL) Online Course designed by the author for the students enrolled in Historia de la Lengua ... -
A Lexical Analysis of Modal Expressions of Certainty in Scientific Discourse
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Scientific discourse has been traditionally described as a register deprived of subjectivity, where the presence of the author is rarely felt. However, recent studies (Swales, 1990; Hyland, 1998) have shown that ... -
A Mad Knight in her Attic: the Reformulation of Quixotism and its Use in Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Women writers in eighteenth century England had to deal with accusations of immorality and perversion of young female minds, due to the alleged subversion of their role as “domestic” and “invisible” women. ... -
Alexander Oldys’s Comic Displacement of Romance in The Fair Extravagant
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] In Alexander Oldys’s The Fair Extravagant (1682), the male protagonist is anxious about his authority as a husband due to the heroine’s superior social rank and wealth, her strong personality, and her free agency. ... -
Assessing WebCT and Moodle for Collaborative Learning of ESP
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Two versions of Moodle and WebCT have been analyzed considering their collaborative language learning tools and the instructional design of two ESP subjects. The instructional design is based on constructivist ... -
‘(B)ut How Grow Flowers […] if One Kept Hens?’: The Transgressing Role of Bird Imagery in Virginia Woolf’s The Years
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] In the atmosphere of growing oppression in the 1930s Britain, where the rapid raise of Fascism threatens to impose its hegemony over the whole of socio-political structures, the imminence of a new outburst of ... -
Beware of the Sorceress: Perceptions of Otherness in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Joanne Harris’ Chocolat
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Freud’s psychoanalytical theories of fear of castration and penisenvy transformed woman into not-man, and hence associated her with the concepts of “lacking” and “other”. Taking as a starting point the popularised ... -
Born in the Streets: Violence, Gangsterism and Power in Gangs of New York
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] When in 1928 Herbert Asbury published his acclaimed book Gangs of New York, he presented a panoramic and retrospective view of the most significant gangs that prowled the Five Point’s area. His gangsters were ... -
Can Late EFL Learners Attain Nativelike Pronunciation? Evidence from Catalan Speakers’ Production of English Low Vowels
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Catalan learners of English have many difficulties to produce the three English low vowels /ӕ ʌ ɑ/ accurately. This is because, like Spanish, Catalan has only one low vowel /а/ so learners tend to perceive the ... -
Castle Rackrent y sus paratextos en el siglo XX: el caso alemán y francés
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Resumen] Castle Rackrent (1800), de la angloirlandesa Maria Edgeworth, ha despertado el interés de la crítica desde ángulos muy diversos, pero una parcela que queda por explorar es la de su recepción en otras culturas. ... -
Dark/Masculine—Light/Feminine: How Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret MacDonald Changed Glasgow School of Art
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Glasgow was by tradition a classical city like its rival Edinburgh. In Glasgow Classicism remained in Italianate buildings with monumental Greek, Egyptian and abstract forms. In the 1880s and the 1890s, when ... -
Ecofeminism: Essentialism, Shared Experience or Quintessential Environmentalism?
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Ecofeminism originated in political activism in the late 70s and 80s and only found its way into literary criticism in the 90s. Throughout human history, nature has constantly been feminized and women naturalized, ... -
Ecofeminist Insights into Contemporary Poetry by Irish and Galician Women Writers
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Since the 1960s, there has been a growing ecological awareness which has had its impact on the production and analysis of literature. Ecofeminism, in particular, denounces the androcentric exploitation and ... -
Edgar y Chicho: La pasión por Poe en Historias para no dormir
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Resumen] En este trabajo se reivindica la idea de que el estudio de la antología, subgénero de la ficción en televisión, es imprescindible para entender el impacto del relato escrito en inglés en España. Como muestra se ... -
Effects of Phonetic Training on the Perception and Production of /i:/-/I/ and /ӕ/-/ʌ/ by Catalan/Spanish Learners of English
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Cross-language differences in vowel perception and production have shown clear limitations in the accuracy with L2 phonetic segments are perceived and produced by native speakers of Romance languages. The present ... -
El cronotopo en el cuento romántico
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Resumen] La mesa redonda pretende analizar la función que el cronotopo desempeña en el cuento romántico. Hemos de tener en cuenta que el cuento moderno surge en varios países simultáneamente, Alemania, Estados unidos, ... -
El modo no indicativo en inglés
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Resumen] Este trabajo plantea la posibilidad de que la estructura oracional del inglés incluya una categoría funcional Sintagma Modo (SModo), con los rasgos [±indicativo] ; el rasgo [+indicativo] sería comprobado (y ... -
El principio de elección en la dramaturgia de Alan Ayckbourn y Yasmina Reza
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Resumen] El objeto de este estudio es reunir las dramaturgias de dos autores en apariencia distantes en sus formulaciones teatrales, Alan Ayckboun y Yasmina Reza, a partir de la similitud que presentan formal y conceptualmente ... -
El té literario de Dorio de Gádex: plagio para un homenaje a Oscar Wilde
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Resumen] El escritor modernista Dorio de Gádex se ocupó, como tantos otros autores españoles en los primeros años del siglo XX, de la figura y de la obra de Oscar Wilde. Lo hizo en sus libros Lolita Acuña (1909) y De los ... -
English Progressives Translated into Spanish: Corpusbased Functional Equivalents
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] English Be+ V-ing and Spanish Estar + G periphrastic constructions share a relatively high degree of similarity, formally and functionally. Their formal resemblance might be useful at early stages of foreign ...
