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There is a greater demand for a wider range of translation services that increasingly involve scientific, commercial, legal, or technical documents. Translation is no longer limited to literary works which have historically been the main focus o[...]![]()
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Matsuura, Hiroko ; Chiba, Reiko ; Fujieda, Miho | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 1996-11-18-![]()
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The aim of this paper is to explore the concept and evidence of audience in the text of MS Hunter 93 (T.4.10), a remedy book written in the second half of the 16th century (c.a. 1565). This manual is presented by its author as a book addressed t[...]![]()
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This article reports the findings of a diachronic study of acknowledgement practices in 300 randomly collected research papers published during three different periods (1998, 2004 and 2012) in the most prestigious American and European astrophys[...]![]()
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The main aim is to show the morphological processes of compounding, blen- ding and conversion found in some computing manuals and infer the most productive combinations. We must remember that specialized English seeks economy of expression, a fe[...]![]()
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Xydopoulos, George J. ; Papadopoulou, Rania | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2018-05-30English nowadays is the dominant language in the domain of fashion sinceEnglish and American companies lead the fashion industry worldwide. As a result, a high number of English fashion loanwords have entered the languages of the world and becom[...]![]()
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Needs analysis is a relevant issue in language teaching as its final aim is to enhance the language learning process by setting realistic course objectives. This paper briefly reviews past and present approaches to the concept of “needs” and “ne[...]![]()
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The use of corpus-informed language in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) / English for Academic Purposes (EAP) teaching has considerably grown over the past two decades, especially due to the proliferation of course book material based on corp[...]![]()
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Titles are the first point of contact with readers and are encoded to provide concise information on the paper’s contents. Data from available surveys show that the structural construction conforms to four different layouts, namely nominal, comp[...]![]()
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Nashaat Sobhy, Nashwa ; Berzosa, César ; Crean, Fiona M. | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2013-11-01This paper explains the use of the Schema Theory in planning and preparing a Physiology lesson in a CLIL tertiary context in a Spanish university. The adopted combination of methods used in applying the theory is transferable to any context and [...]![]()
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Este artículo ofrece en esencia el informe de una investigación sobre las funciones que realizan las conjunciones although, but y however en cada uno de los apartados en que se divide tradicionalmente un artículo de investigación (IMRD). Se o[...]![]()
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The main goal of this research paper is to clarify the concept of ergativity, which has been used as a modern term in recent grammar studies, from a morphological- syntactical approach. This term, nonexistent in the traditional linguistic st[...]![]()
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Corrius Gimbert, Montse ; De Marco, Marcella ; Eva, Espasa Borrás | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2016-12-25This paper aims to explore to what extent students enrolled on Translation and on Advertising courses are gender aware, i.e. whether they perceive that the decisions they take when translating or creating non-profit advertisements which present [...]![]()
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La Adivinanza 90, única composición en latín incluida en el Exeter Book, es un enigma de por sí. Hasta la fecha no ha sido imposible ofrecer una explicación plausible de sus extrañas pistas, de manera que no se ha encontrado todavía una solución[...]![]()
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Casañ Pitarch, Ricardo ; Waicekawsky, Liliana | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2020-04-08This paper analyzes the genre of popularization article discussing autism published by the magazine Science Daily. The objective of this research is to define this genre and describe its structure, language and most common rules. The method appl[...]![]()
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This paper seeks to validate the use of translation as a methodological procedure that facilitates learners' interpretation of professional writing practices. We mainly contend that translation activities can become an adequate linguistic input [...]![]()
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The aim of this paper is to analyse how globalization has affected the activity of advertising translation, paying heed to how globalization and localization approaches integrate translation as a strategy to promote different kinds of products a[...]![]()
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Reseña del libro González-Pastor, Diana María. La traducción de los textos de especialidad: una propuesta multidisciplinar. Colección IULMA Monographs. Institut Universitari de Llengües Modernes Aplicades, Universitat de València, 2017. ISBN: 97[...]![]()
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The submitted paper deals with analysis of grammatical means of textual cohesion in English in a specific genre of legal register, i.e. in appellate court decisions. The theoretical framework of analysis is the theory of textual cohesion introdu[...]![]()
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Within the historical studies of the English language, only the literary genre has been traditionally under the spotlight. However, there is a numher of texts which still remain virtually unstudied, at least, as far as their inter- nal structure[...]![]()
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Healthcare Videos Addressed to the Migrant Population: From Intercultural Mediation to Transcreation
Population movements result in multilingual and multicultural societies. Apart from the great amount of foreigners from different nationalities who visit Spain each year for short stays, during the last decades we have witnessed a great increase[...]![]()
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Hughes, Stephen Pearse ; Tulimirovic, Bojana | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2015-07-27Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are firmly established in language learning contexts, yet there are still many questions in relation to how widely they are employed and, indeed, how useful they are in developing all aspects of [...]![]()
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Collection letters are meant to collect balances due and at the same time they attempt to encourage a business relationship and its revenue flow to continue. This type of correspondence is nowadays one of the few types of correspondence that is [...]![]()
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The importance of the English language in today’s Education system is beyond doubt. Bearing in mind that the Spanish Educational Authorities and regulations advocate the Communicative Approach, this study shows the origin, evolution and results [...]![]()
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ABSTRACT In this paper, I analyse evidential devises as stancetaking markers in history scientific texts from the Modern English period (1700-1900). For this, I will use the Corpus of History English Texts (CHET), one of the subcorpora within th[...]![]()
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En el presente artículo, se presentan los resultados del primer proyecto piloto que se llevó a cabo en el marco de la investigación doctoral del autor. Más concretamente, se expondrán las conclusiones provisionales que se han sacado a partir del[...]![]()
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This article presents a study into the application of two methodological approaches, teaching through content and language integrated learning in Voca- tional Training from a sequence of activities developed with several groups of students o[...]![]()
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The present paper aims at exploring the language of photography. In particular, it pretends to discover the main lexico-semantic features of the English of photography. It is a qualitative study based on corpus of nearly a million words whose so[...]![]()
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Current ways of informal globalized communication involve digital genres facilitating increasingly dialogical, immediate interactions. One representative example is found in blogs, where users’ interaction is enabled through the genre of the com[...]![]()
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La influencia que la lengua inglesa ejerce sobre las demás lenguas modernas es incontestable. Numerosos son los estudios que analizandistintos tipos de anglicismos en todos los ámbitos, desde los más técnicos y jergales hasta los más ordinarios [...]![]()
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The research group Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization from the University of Santiago de Compostela has been lately working on the compilation of a new specialised corpus of legal English: The Corpus of Historical English Law Re[...]![]()
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Special Issue: Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and the teaching of languages for specific purposes/Aprendizaje integrado de contenidos y lenguas extranjeras (AICLE) y didáctica de la enseñanza de lenguas para fines específicos![]()
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The more and more prominent role of English in the Spanish Education system has brought to the foreground the relevance of research in the teaching and learning of English as a foreign language (FL). At no other time in the history of Spanish ed[...]![]()
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García-Sánchez, Soraya ; Burbules, Nicholas C. | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2016-06-15---![]()
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Alonso Almeida, Francisco ; Marrero Morales, Sandra | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2011-11-27Historical linguistics has been in constant rebirth and innovation to conform to new advances in the way texts are methodologically addressed. These methods of study have given way to several interdisciplinary focuses, which include the discipli[...]![]()
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Issue number 19 of Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos is a very special one for all of us in the LFE editorial team and the Department of Filología Moderna at ULPGC, since it celebrates the 20th anniversary of the first issue of this scie[...]![]()
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Morales, Óscar Alberto ; Cassany Comas, Daniel ; Oliver del Olmo, Sonia ; González Peña, Carolina ; Marín-Altuve, Ernesto | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2010-11-29This paper is part of a wider research project which studies the academic writing of the dental Hispano-American community. It aims to describe and to analyze which hedging strategies are used and for what purpose in 40 dental research papers[...]![]()
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Masnou Suriñach, Joan ; Khan, Sarah ; Khan, Sarah | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2013-11-01The transition between secondary and tertiary education has often been described as a “gap” implying that it is lacking in some way and that secondary students need better preparation for further education (Jansen & van der Meer, 2012; Juarez-Da[...]![]()
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This case study presents evidence of the different ways in which metalanguage can appear in the foreign language (FL) classroom and of the benefits that interactions including reflection upon language can provide to language learning in a gr[...]![]()
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The aim of this study is to analyse the role of subtitling when learning a foreign language ─English─, and improving mother tongue. Besides, subjects ─a group of third year Primary Education undergraduates─ assess the role subtitles could play[...]![]()
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This paper deals with two of the key factors in the L2 learning process, namely, learning motivation and strategies. A group of engineering students from Bilbao (Spain) having a good command of English for General Purposes (EGP) and taking a cou[...]![]()
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In the English course included in the degree in Art Conservation and Restoration at the University of La Laguna (Spain), the inexistence of commercial teaching resources suitable for this area and, more particularly, for the learning of speciali[...]![]()
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García-Sánchez, Soraya ; Burbules, Nicholas C. | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2016-06-15In this article, we discuss how technology-based learning methodologies developed in primary and secondary education can offer useful approaches to higher education instruction. For example, young and adult Spanish speakers are often used to par[...]![]()
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Language is a distinctive feature of human beings which lets them be recog- nized as members of an ethnic group or forming part of a nation. As a result of the different communities relationships, the contact among languages take several results[...]![]()
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In eighteenth century England the middle classes were looking for assistance guides to help them to move upwards in society. Among those help books we find letter-writing manuals, a very popular text-type in the Late Modern English period, which[...]![]()
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Power, Aurelia ; Keane, Anthony ; Nolan, Brian ; O'Neill, Brian | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2017-12-05Public textual cyberbullying has become one of the most prevalent issues associated with online safety of young people, particularly on social networks. To address this issue, we argue that the boundaries of what constitutes public textual cyber[...]![]()
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Herrando Rodrigo, Isabel ; Yebra-Pertusa, José María | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2014-11-01Con este artículo nos proponemos dar a conocer la experiencia empírica de carácter docente-investigador que hemos llevado a cabo en el último año (2013-14).Pretendemos enfatizar el papel del inglés con fines específicos, más concretamentede cará[...]![]()
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Legal language is conceived as a sub-variety of the common language characterized by very specific features and is shown to be the immutable reflection of the behaviors that underlie each culture and differentiate it from others. In this regard,[...]![]()
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The purpose of this research is to compare descriptively the issues arising from comparing the direct and indirect objects in both Albanian and Spanish. Both languages belong to different Indoeuropean groups, however they keep some morphosynt[...]![]()
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From a linguistic point of view, all languages and language varieties serve equally well for communication purposes. However, a number of interconnected language ideologies, assert the superiority of the Standard(s) over all other varieties ([...]![]()
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Este trabajo presenta tres actividades didácticas y una propuesta de evaluaciónpara mejorar el aprendizaje del vocabulario científico en contextos de educaciónbilingüe. Investigaciones recientes han demostrado que el uso de imágenes es unamanera[...]![]()
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One of our previous works had as its aim to analyse the behaviour of luego and después in the speech of Seville. The results obtained were significant, but they required an expansion of the material subject to analysis; hence our decision to stu[...]![]()
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Book Review: Maurizio Gotti and Carmen Sancho Guinda (eds). (2013). Narratives in Academic and Professional Genres. Bern: Peter Lang, pp 511.![]()
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Cortés de los Ríos, María Enriqueta ; Hernández Aparicio, Tamara | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2020-12-19The aim of this study to shed some light on the way meaning is constructed in different stages in the Brexit process through some covers of The Economist magazine. The present paper lies within the scope of the research into the instantiation of[...]![]()
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Boldyrev, Nikolay N. ; Dubrovskaya, Olga G. ; Tolmacheva, Irina N. | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2017-12-05The article reviews the problem of meaning construction and language use in the field of sociocultural cognitive semantics, focusing on meaning as a dynamic experience construction process represented by virtue of language within multiple networ[...]![]()
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This article continues a series of studies connected with the Scientific Thought-styles project (1995-), and discusses the formation of genre conventions of vernacular medical case reports in a long diachronic perspective. The theoretical backgr[...]![]()
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Salager-Meyer, Françoise ; Alcaraz-Ariza, María Ángeles | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2013-11-01This paper is a diachronic analysis of a corpus of 180 titles drawn from CRs published in the BMJ and the BMJ Case Reports between 1840 and 2009. The frequency of occurrence of 69 variables (e.g. title type and length, punctuation, grammatical a[...]![]()
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Este trabajo presenta un análisis de las estrategias cognitivas, metacognitivas y metalingüísticas implicadas en la elaboración de los informes técnicos en las asignaturas de IPA, para alumnos de ciencias e ingenierías. Las aplicaciones didác[...]![]()
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The paper addresses metaphor as a cognitive-semantic device which is able to reveal intuitive mechanisms of the thinking process, thus filling the gaps in the sphere of logically objective human knowledge and opening the possibility to describe [...]![]()
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El debate en torno a la traducción literal y su idoneidad a la hora de hacer frente a una traducción es ciertamente antiguo. Cuando dicho debate se aplica a la traducción audiovisual, este se encrudece todavía más. En la actualidad, es común enc[...]![]()
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The paper investigates how modal hedges (Coates 1983) understood as expressions of procedural meaning, i.e. expressions which instruct the addressee/reader how to process the propositional content of an utterance/statement (Watts 2004) are used [...]![]()
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Álvarez-Gil, Francisco J. ; Domínguez MOrales, Elena | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2018-11-19This paper looks into the use of modal verbs in a corpus of abstracts excerpted from scientific papers in the field of tourism. These texts have been written by specialists in tourism studies. Our study will show the way in which modality is use[...]![]()
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Much has been written about the MOOC phenomenon (Massive Online Open Courses), however, this is not an ICTE (Information and Communications Technology for Educational purposes) panegyric that we offer here. Instead,the objective is to make the m[...]![]()
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Cortés de los Ríos, María Enriqueta ; Fernández Alonso, Patricia María | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2017-12-07Un análisis multimodal de la comunicación del terrorismo a través de los medios de comunicación apenas ha sido abordado. Este estudio pretende explorar cómo modalidades verbales y pictóricas contribuyen a la creación de una particular conceptual[...]![]()
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The rapid evolution from print-based to multimodal information has still not received sufficient attention from the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). This paper advocates the need to re-conceptualize ESP through multimodal practice f[...]![]()
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The focus of my research is Narrative Instances (NIs) of Admission Interviews (AIs) in Public Mental Health carried out in Youth Centres of Mendoza Province, Argentina, within the framework of MOdEAS project. The aim of this paper is to show[...]![]()
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Salager-Meyer, Françoise ; Lewin, Beverly A. ; Luzardo Briceño, Marianela | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2017-12-05This paper analyses the length and titling practices in the under-researched field of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Our corpus consisted of 360 articles published between 1995 and 2016 in three CAM journals. The length and frequ[...]