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The growing flow of the foreign Tourism to Spain demands competent and well-trained professionals. One of the fundamental areas of training is foreign language, and therefore, they must dominate both: the general language and the specifi[...]texto impreso
This article looks at the specific discourse features of press ads for computer products in English and Spanish and, to this end, presents the findings of a compa- rative analysis of two parallel corpora of ads, one in each language. Two parti- [...]texto impreso
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For many students, learning a Second Language (SL) can either be a rewarding or a threatening experience. Recent studies claim that this is caused by the role that the affective domain plays in the learning process. Since the affective variables[...]texto impreso
This article presents the AFPCor, a corpus of advertisements for financial products compiled in order to facilitate the study of discourse used in this text type. AFPCor comprises thirty press ads in this sector from the UK and a further 30 from[...]texto impreso
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As stated in Periñán-Pascual and Arcas Túnez (2010, p. 2671) FunGramKB´s lexical and grammatical levels are grounded in sound linguistic theories, allowing the system to capture syntactic-semantic generalizations which are able to provide both e[...]texto impreso
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This paper presents different strategies in teaching a foreign language. They are based on an audiovisual methodology. On the one hand, the student feels lan- guagealive from the very beginning, and in a parallel form, s/he plays an active role [...]texto impreso
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Advertisements are omnipresent in our daily life. Printed advertisements of magazines pay great attention to language and image details. The concepts and values change according to the product advertised. Advertisements of beauty products fo[...]texto impreso
Burgos Cuadrillero, Beatriz ; Rohr Schrade, Kerstin I. | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2017-10-08Medical terminology derives mostly from Latin and Greek because historically these languages were the communication vehicle in the medical discipline. For this reason,medical technical terms have maintained their univocity thanks to precise term[...]texto impreso
Fuentes-Luque, Adrián ; Fijo León, María Isabel | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2019-12-04Translation is a key issue in the area of tourism, since tourist products and services need to be advertised in different markets and different languages so that they can be available for linguistically and culturally diverse communities. This p[...]texto impreso
Álvarez-Gil, Francisco J. ; García Alonso, Natalia | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2019-12-04The present paper deals with the relationship between modality and evidentiality, focussed specifically on the use of the expression I think in combination with other modal devices, as well as the possible pragmatic effects observed in text samp[...]texto impreso
This study analyses the effect the teaching of discourse markers has on ESP learners' reading comprehension. Following a relevance-theoretic approach, we con- sider discourse markers as signals the speaker/writer uses to guide cooperatively his [...]texto impreso
de la Cruz Cabanillas, Isabel ; Tejedor Martínez, Cristina ; Cerdá Redondo, Esperanza ; Díez Prados, Mercedes | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2008-06-02It is traditionally assumed that the influence of English upon Spanish is par- ticularly pervasive in the area of languages for specific purposes. In the case of the language of tourism it is more complicated than in other areas, as it covers se[...]texto impreso
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Krebs, Adrijana ; Simó Arroyo, Itziar ; Simó Arroyo, Itziar | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2013-11-01In this work we make a suggestion for the development of a Spanish language course for pharmacists or students of Pharmacy whose first language is not Spanish. With the objective of supporting teachers in this demanding task, we provide some gui[...]texto impreso
Language courses for specific purposes vary due to their context and purpose. However, it is possible to find common features between programs in two different countries, with different characteristics and languages in question. It is interestin[...]texto impreso
Díaz Galán, Ana ; Fumero Pérez, Mª del Carmen | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2017-12-05The syntactic parser ARTEMIS (Automatically Representing Text Meaning via an Interlingua-based System) is a prototype intended to process natural language within the environment of the Functional Grammar Knowledge Base (FunGramKB) (Periñán-Pascu[...]texto impreso
The main aim of this paper is to show the introduction of Asian loanwords in commercial and scientific Modern English. There are several reasons why English speakers might want to adopt a foreign word. The simplest one is that the word is the na[...]texto impreso
Este estudio examinó la efectividad del Aprendizaje Integrado de Contenidos y Lenguas Extranjeras (AICLE) respecto al dominio del inglés y la incorporación de su sintaxis en un grupo de estudiantes andaluces. Alumnos de instituto (n = 22) matric[...]texto impreso
Spanish heritage language learners (HLLs) are heterogeneous in nature. Thus, how can we assess these students? Most of the literature on this has been on placement exams (Polinsky & Kagan, 2017, among others), but the focus of this article is on[...]texto impreso
What we nowadays term “front matter” was conceived of in the past as a direct address to the reader. Over time, standard formulae were developed and certain rhetorical devices consolidated. Despite the evolution in the style used for the transmi[...]texto impreso
This paper, which forms part of the research for my doctoral dissertation, presents a new taxonomy of what I have named social characteristics of individuals. This is a new approach which reorganises the traditional concepts of face and social r[...]texto impreso
This study investigates attitudes toward English, the primary language of international communication, and motivation of intermediate and advanced speakers of English required to pursue Business English as part of their university studies. Moreo[...]texto impreso
González Cruz, Isabel ; Vera Cazorla, María Jesús | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2008-06-02The main purpose of this article is to report on the results of an empirical study carried out among the students of English Philology at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University in order to elicit data about their attitudes toward the British and [...]texto impreso
Academic writing is not just about conveying an ideational ‘content’, it is also about the representation of the self (Hyland, 2002, p. 1092). It allows writers ‘to gain credibility by projecting an identity invested with the individual authorit[...]texto impreso
Gómez-Moreno, Pedro Ureña ; Mestre-Mestre, Eva M. | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2017-12-05At the current rate of technological development, in a world where enormous amount of data are constantly created and in which the Internet is used as the primary means for information exchange, there exists a need for tools that help processing[...]texto impreso
This two-year case study explores the presence of international students (mostly Erasmus) in Inglés II for Tourism at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. This tentative qualitative study analysed their presence from four different perspectiv[...]texto impreso
Responding to a growing interest in evidence-based research within EAP, Researching Contexts, Practices and Pedagogies in English for Academic Purposes is as timely as it is wide-ranging, well-thought and suggestive. It becomes a much-welcome co[...]texto impreso
Book Review: Brown, James Dean. (2016) Introducing Needs Analysis and English for Specific Purposes. Oxford: Routledge, pp. 231texto impreso
Consumers’ need to rate and review products, services or businesses online has led to a massive burgeoning of online reviews over the last decade, giving rise to a new computer-mediated communicative genre that has attracted the attention of man[...]texto impreso
Computers have had a significant presence in language teaching since the 1960s, while the obvious emerging development of “educational technology” can be established in the early 1980s. By then, this term began to obtain significant popularity, [...]texto impreso
Intercultural pragmatics aims to explore areas of pragmatics neglected in the literature until now...DOI: 10.20420/rlfe.2015.0009texto impreso
Book Review: Kong, Kenneth. (2014). Professional Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 288texto impreso
Book Review: Laura Felton Rosulek. (2015). Dueling Discourses: The Construction of Reality in Closing Arguments. Oxford:Oxford University Press, pp 248.texto impreso
Book Review: Marcus Callies and Sandra Götz (eds.). (2015). Learner corpora in language testing and assessment (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 70) Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp 220texto impreso
Countries and territories willing to market and sell their products and services abroad do their best to identify them with a defined, specific image or identity, a brand. However, choosing the appropriate one sometimes proves to be a confusing [...]texto impreso
In the last decade, intralingual translation has started to gain momentum amongst a number of translation academics. Nevertheless, some types of intralingual translation remain largely undiscovered, such as the process of abridgement in the prod[...]texto impreso
Since computer technology became widespread available at universities during the last quarter of the twentieth century, language researchers have been successfully employing software to analyse usage patterns in corpora. However, although there [...]texto impreso
The aim of this paper is to illustrate the different methods that the specialized discourse community of the 17th century used to spread the news about the many activities then taking place and the discoveries being made by its members. It will [...]texto impreso
Un corpus spécifique est un corpus créé ad hoc en fonction de l’objet de recherche. Ce corpus a été créé à partir de textes d’un sous-genre de la presse française des cinq dernières années en ayant comme mot cible l’anglicisme brunch. Le but pri[...]texto impreso
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Riaza García, Asunción ; Mediavilla López, Rosa María ; Santisteban Navarro, Juan Ignacio | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 1998Los estudios espectrales de laboratorio en el visible y el infrarrojo cercano (400- 2500 nro) sobre muestras de rocas de distintas formaciones geológicas detríticas siliciclásticas en una cuenca sedimentaria terciaria, sugieren que la proporción[...]texto impreso
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In the past decade, Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has been steadily gaining ground in tertiary-level education, with an increasing number of programmes being implemented. However, and despite this growing trend, there is still a wi[...]texto impreso
In business discourse, the discussion of work relations is a very interesting branch of study, especially when it refers to contexts that are relatively distant in time and/or space. In this respect, emigrants’ letters and diaries are as invalua[...]texto impreso
This paper analyzes those communication skills expected of engineers, as well as their current deficiencies. Subsequently, resources required to develop technical and professional communication maturity used in English for Specific Purposes (ESP[...]texto impreso
Este artículo presenta el blogging como herramienta para fomentar la competencia en producción escrita en lengua inglesa. Se analiza el uso del blogging en el aprendizaje del inglés para fines específicos y, en particular, en la enseñanza del in[...]texto impreso
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ABSTRACTMuch has been written about the complex and secluded world of the metaphor, albeit the study of the power of the conceptual metaphor as a persuasion tool behind the shadows of certain socio-political and economic interests is still a pa[...]texto impreso
In this paper I propose an analysis of the Middle English vocabulary for emotional distress. I am especially interested in determining to what extent the vocabulary used in medical varieties of Middle English differentiated between somatic and p[...]texto impreso
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Durán-Escribano, Pilar ; Cuadrado-Esclapez, Georgina | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2017-10-08The study of scientific and technical language, where metaphor is central, is enriched by the cognitive linguistics approach. This paper is based on the research project that culminated in the Bilingual Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Met[...]texto impreso
Politeness is considered to be a basic orientation in social relationships, it constitutes a significant feature of human behaviour and is connected to a variety of aspects of communication, e.g. gestures and kinesic aspects. It characterize[...]texto impreso
This paper investigates the use of epistemic expressions in scientific English. The main aim of this research is to analyse if native speakers of English use epistemic modality in the same way than non-native speakers of English and to detect th[...]texto impreso
Cárdenes Rodríguez, Alexander ; Marrero Morales, Sandra | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2006-11-17Los diferentes tipos textuales que aparecen en el ámbito de la Ciencia y la Tecnología presentan diferencias relevantes en cuanto a su organización estructu- ral y a la terminología utilizada. A lo largo de este artículo nos planteamos ana- l[...]texto impreso
This paper addresses semantic memory loss from the perspective of Natural Language Processing. Dementia disorders and, in particular, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) present a loss of cognitive functions, being one of them semantic memory impairment. W[...]texto impreso
Qualitative and quantitative research approaches are often considered as incompatible, and when they are brought together in a study, the analyses often stay within the realm of the same research field. The study at hand aims at combining the tw[...]texto impreso
This paper examines the occurrence of I am thinkingin political speeches as opposed to general discourse. This combination containing a verb traditionally considered incompatible with the progressive seems to be evolving and extending its range [...]texto impreso
Entralgo, Johanna ; Salager-Meyer, Françoise ; Luzardo Briceño, Marianela | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2015-11-25This paper examines a corpus of 150 titles of research articles published between 2010 and 2013 in Anglo-American natural sciences journals (physics, chemistry and biology) in order to determine their lexical density and grammatical and morphosy[...]texto impreso
This paper deals with the importance of cultural and intercultural elements in the training of interpreters and translators at university. To overcome the pitfalls these elements pose for students, even those with a sound linguistic basis have t[...]texto impreso
Fielden Burns, Laura Victoria ; Rico García, Mercedes | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2017-12-06Hospitality students are the future negotiators of cultural interaction in our field, and how they imagine culture through their language studies is important. In particular, cultural concepts form an essential part of their motivation to learn [...]texto impreso
This study sets out to investigate the concepts of domestication and foreignization introduced by Lawrence Venuti through examining the transfer of culture-bound references in the translation of the novel “Dhakirat al jassad ذاكرة الجسد” (Memory[...]texto impreso
Acquiring academic writing skills in English may be a true challenge, especially for undergraduate students for whom English is not their first language, but still have to accomplish writing tasks in a more or less successful way as a requiremen[...]texto impreso
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Training students in terminology is indispensable to ensure that they can perform specialized translation properly. Manuals are available(MonterdeRey,2002; AguilarCuevas,2001, etc.) that offer teaching materials for instructors. However, in our [...]texto impreso
English for Specific Purposes (ESP) has developed in the last five decades in response to learners’ communicative needs in specific scientific fields and professional settings. Since its emergence in the 1960s the number of publications on ESP h[...]texto impreso
Cantos, Pascual ; Vázquez, Nila ; Vázquez, Nila | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2011-11-27This research focuses on the Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA), the first sub-corpus of CC, presenting a diachronic approach to astronomy specific lexicon found in texts from 1710 to 1920. The goal of this research is trying to determi[...]texto impreso
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Rodríguez Rodríguez, María Nayra ; González Gil, Sara | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2016-06-15International trading relationships between the five continents grow everyday. Some territories, such as the Canary Islands, require external contact to develop their economy. In a region like this, to be fluent in any language is not only essen[...]texto impreso
Phonetics is basic to phonology and both are important components of Foreign Language teaching / learning. What was defined as a phonemic contrast by the Prague phonologists is key in Foreign Language didactics. How many phonemes shall we te[...]texto impreso
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Marrero Morales, Sandra ; Vera Cazorla, María Jesús | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2008-06-02Advertising has aroused the interest of linguists for many years in the sense that they have attempted to describe its language and to discover the principles of its structure. As regards its language, it appears to be concrete and this con- cre[...]texto impreso
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Contemporary legal institutions like the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) rely on standardized discursive resources to create homogeneous templates for their discourse. Standardization remains useful since it minimizes risks and o[...]texto impreso
Pérez de Pereyra, Alicia ; Aguilar de Espinosa, Beatriz ; Aguirre de Quevedo, Lidia Edith del | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2006-11-17Las dificultades observadas en la apropiación de conocimientos en lengua extranjera hacen necesaria la exploración de la recóndita relación entre la enseñan- za y el aprendizaje y los factores que la afectan, entre estos se destaca el estilo [...]texto impreso
Litzler, Mary Frances ; Martín Monje, Elena | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2017-10-08This special issue of Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos takes a broad view of the field of languages for specific purposes (LSP) that includes the characteristics of language in specific areas of study, adaptation during the translation [...]texto impreso
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Canga Alonso, Andrés ; Cifone Ponte, Daniela | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2016-12-25This research compares the cultural types elicited by twenty-nine EFL undergraduate students in response to two prompts from a lexical availability task (i.e. food and drink and countryside) and the cultural input provided by four last year High[...]texto impreso
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La presente investigación se centra en el estudio de un corpus digital de 25 sentencias escocesas con el objetivo de establecer ciertos parámetros lingüísticos que puedan unificar la gran divergencia de sentencias judiciales de Escocia a través [...]texto impreso
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Pérez Sabater, Carmen ; Barbasán Ortuño, Inmaculada ; Montero Fleta, Begoña | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2019-12-04Este trabajo estudia el papel de la traducción pedagógica L1 L2 en el aula de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, dedicando atención especial al dominio del orden de las palabras en la oración. Para este fin, analizamos la competencia de dos grupos [...]texto impreso
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This study examines the influence of motivational variables (integrative vs. instrumental motivation, attitudes, L2 anxiety and linguistic self-confidence) towards the learning of English in the current globalised university context. A total of [...]texto impreso
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The preeminence of English as the scientific lingua franca, together with the ever-present publish-or-perish dilemma, has brought increasing concern on Spanish scientists striving to achieve international recognition. Spanish journal editors try[...]texto impreso
En este artículo damos cuenta de la incidencia del contexto jurídico y bilingüe en la enseñanza-aprendizaje del francés jurídico (FOS). Así, fenómenos como la diglosia, bilingüismo y bijuridismo repercuten en la configuración de un sistema juríd[...]texto impreso
Menéndez-Otero, Carlos ; Serrano-González, Raquel ; Gil-Naveira, Isabel | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2018-11-19The paper presents an experience of use of ICT intended to overcome some of the problems currently plaguing ESP teaching at third level in Spain, namely student overcrowding, rising grade appealing, inadequacy and/or datedness of methodologies a[...]