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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 ... -
“Thought words Words inane Thought inane”: Samuel Beckett’s Critique of Language in his Four Novellas
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] This essay explores how Samuel Beckett’s four postwar novellas express in narratological terms what the Austrian positivist Fritz Mauthner’s Critique of Language (published at the turn of the twentieth century) ... -
To Be or Not To Be (a Man): Is That the Question? Men and/in Feminist Literary Criticism
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] While the question of men and/in feminism has long been subject to different (and often opposed) views and opinions, the more specific issue of men in feminist literary criticism remains largely unexplored. ... -
Transgressive Codes in Contemporary English: An Analysis of Lexical Creativity in the Field of Music
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] This paper reports the results of the morphological analysis of a corpus of names of singers and bands ascribed to alternative musical trends. The analysis evinces that language is a suitable instrument to convey ... -
Truman Capote’s Early Short Stories or The Fight of a Writer to Find His Own Voice
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] Truman Capote’s early stories have not been studied in depth so far and literary studies on Truman Capote’s short stories start with his first collection “A Tree of Night and Other Stories”, published in 1949. ... -
Ut Musica Poesis: An Approach to the Dialogue between Literature and Music
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] The pervasive presence of music in contemporary fiction parallels the crucial role played by painting in novels and short stories since the late 1990s. Such a parallel, however, has not had a correspondence in ... -
What does Left Dislocation Syntactically Comprise? Evidence from Late Modern English
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] As part of a major project on left dislocation in the recent history of the English language, this paper aims at defining the Left Dislocation phenomenon taking data from a late Modern English corpus as a point ...