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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[...]