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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 ... -
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 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 ... -
Modalities of Verbal Mitigation in Literary Language: Artful vs. Explicit Sexual Euphemism
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] It is my purpose in this paper to provide an overview of two modalities of euphemism detected in the novels The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence and Yellow Dog by Martin Amis, referred to as ‘artful’ and ‘explicit ... -
L3 English Lexico-Grammatical Growth in At Home and Study Abroad Learning Contexts
(Universidade da Coruña, 2008)[Abstract] In the present article two different L3 learning contexts are distinguished: formal instruction at the home university (AH) and study abroad (SA). We analyse the effect of both learning contexts on EFL students’ ...