Listar AEDEAN Conference = Congreso de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (31. 2007. Coruña) por título
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Science Fiction Magnifying Mirrors: Octavia Butler’s Dawn and the Ethics of Genetic Manipulation
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] In this paper I deal with Octavia Butler’s novel Dawn and the issue of Science Fiction as a mirror of real situations. I analyze Dawn from an ecocritical approach focusing on how human beings are treated by the ... -
Sentence Topic in Comment Articles
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Although it competes with subject and theme as a key concept within the field of discourse analysis, there is much to be gained by utilising the sophisticated treatment of sentence topic developed by theorists ... -
Short-Story Form and Diversity Management in ZZ Packer’s Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Historically, ethnic minority writers have only rarely shown much concern with the intra-group diversity that one frequently finds in sociological surveys and statistics which classify results according to ethnic ... -
Social Effects: a Relevance Theory Perspective
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Many linguists have claimed that interlocutors transmit social information about their identities or relationships when interacting (e.g. Lakoff, 1973; Laver, 1974, 1975; Brown and Levinson, 1978, 1987; Scollon ... -
Spades, Actors and Fags: Fiction and/as Queer Theory in Timothy Findley’s Spadework
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] This paper analyses Timothy Findley’s last novel, Spadework (2002 [2001] ), to engage the relevance of Gender/Queer Theory as a visible intertext. As we read, it seems apparent that that Spadework provides a ... -
“Spain is Not different”: viajeras románticas anglosajonas en España
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Resumen] El trabajo investiga los diversos modos en que se ha representado la imagen de España en los relatos de viajes de escritoras británicas y norteamericanas del siglo XIX inéditos en su traducción hasta la fecha. ... -
Telecollaboration: Synchronous Oral Exchanges through Skype in the Classroom
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Recent research has concentrated on the advantages the use of email, written chat and virtual communities have for language learning as a way to create authentic communicative environments (Vinagre, 2005; Meskill ... -
Tempted by The Tempest: Derek Jarman’s Gay Play with Shakespearean Romance
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] This paper reassesses Derek Jarman’s film The Tempest (UK 1979) against recent developments in film adaptation theory in order to reach conclusions about its controversial handling of the Shakespearean source ... -
The (In)Sides Beyond Male Friendship-Desire: Alterity and Minorities in Michael Radford’s Merchant of Venice (2004)
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] One of Shakespeare’s most controversial play is undoubtedly The Merchant of Venice, brought to the screen by Michael Radford (1984, White Mischief, Addicted to the Stars) in 2004, becoming the first attempt to ... -
The Conventionalization of the Passive in Late Modern Scientific English
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] This paper is part of a larger project in which I seek to find out the reasons behind the radical decrease in the use of passives in Present-day English scientific discourse. After discarding a number of linguistic ... -
The Doing of Telling on the Irish Stage: An Introduction and two Samples of Modern and Contemporary Story-Telling Performativity
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Delivered on stage, featuring a protagonist role on stage, language feels in its natural element of performance and transfiguration, which are the very elements of theatre at its best. The fundamental idea of ... -
The Dramatisation of Pacific Diaspora in Albert Wendt’s The Songmaker’s Chair
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] My paper looks at Albert Wendt’s play The Songmaker’s Chair (2004) as an example of the collective dramatisation of the experience of diaspora carried out by Pacific playwrights in New Zealand. Wendt’s play ... -
The Effects of Setting in English Native Speakers’ Use of Request Modification Devices
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] The speech act of requesting has been widely examined both in interlanguage and cross-cultural pragmatics. However, most of this research has focused on the pragmalinguistic form to express the request head act ... -
The fellows mad, I neither understand his words, nor his Sence: On Dialect Lexis in Three Literary Renderings of Seventeenth-Century Lancashire Speech
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] This paper addresses the need to retrieve lexical information from a period which has been hitherto poorly assessed. Itconcentrates on a close examination of dialect words scattered inthree samples of Lancashire ... -
‘The Feminist Note in the Essay’: Some Rhetorical Devices in the Essays of Virginia Woolf
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] The essays of Virginia Woolf have traditionally transcended for their emphasis on women’s position throughout History as regards their continual lack of intellectual and material opportunities in a men-ruled ... -
The Origin of Dual-form Adverbs: Grammaticalization or Lexicalization?
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] The formation of dual-form adverbs, items derived from an elementary adjective which present a suffixless and a suffixed adverbial variant, e.g. short/shortly, is a complex process in which up to three different ... -
The Pedagogy of the Sasquatch: Imagining the Aboriginal without Feathers in Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] This paper analyzes Canada’s foundational myths of Nature and Natives vis-à-vis recent negotiations of that same relationship by Aboriginal writers, and will offer a reading of Eden Robinson’s novel Monkey Beach ... -
The Sex or the Death of the Author? Rethinking the Relevance of “Maleness” to (Feminist) Literature and Literary Criticism
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] The relevance/irrelevance of the sex of the author to textual analysis remains one of the most controversial debates within contemporary literary theory, in general, and feminist literary criticism, in particular. ... -
‘The Stage, a Skull’: Scenic Poetry and the Role of Light in Martin Crimp’s Fewer Emergencies (2005)
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] This paper explores the role of light in James Macdonald’s production of Martin Crimp’s triptych Fewer Emergencies. For his 2005 staged production at the Royal Court Theatre, London, Macdonald turned light into ... -
The Use of English Negation by Spanish Students of English: a Learner Corpus-Based Study
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] This paper is based on a research project by the same author, in which the acquisition of the English negation system is investigated. This is a preliminary account and it is corpus-based. Two learner corpora ...