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The level of context dependence of engagement markers in Peninsular Spanish and US business websites
Ivorra-Pérez, Francisco Miguel ; Giménez-Moreno, Rosa | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2018-11-19This paper examines the impact of Spaniards’ and North-Americans’ level of context dependence (Hall, 1976) on the engagement markers (Hyland & Tse, 2004) used on the presentation page of 100 business websites from the toy sector (50 from Spain a[...]![]()
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The lexical approach identifies lexis as the basis of language and focuses on the principle that language consists of grammaticalised lexis. in second language acquisition, over the past few years, this approach has generated great interest as a[...]![]()
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Larrea Espinar, Ángela Mª ; RAIGÓN RODRÍGUEZ, Antonio R. ; RAIGÓN RODRÍGUEZ, Antonio R. | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2012-11-25With the turn of the century we have seen a string of political and cultural changes that have had a deep impact on economy and technology. The “global culture” phenomenon is nowadays a common concept spread through the mass media, namely tel[...]![]()
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The argumentative class of texts possesses a certain structure that allows the addressee to recognise the possible controversy of the ideas posed in it, be it for the persuasion of some conflicting view or the mere reflection on what has been ut[...]![]()
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Tejedor Martínez, Cristina ; de la Cruz Cabanillas, Isabel ; Cabellos Castilla, María Rosa | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2006-11-17Resulta evidente que, además de a los procedimientos propios de una lengua para la formación de palabras, el lenguaje tecno-científico recurre a menudo a neo- logismos ingleses, al ser ésta la lengua de transmisión de cultura y conocimiento e[...]![]()
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Felices-Lago, Ángel ; Alameda-Hernández, Ángela | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2017-12-05In this article we collect a corpus of texts which operate with a controlled language (ASD Simplified Technical English) in order to facilitate the development of a new domain-specific ontology (the aircraft structure) based on a technical disci[...]![]()
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Cortés de los Ríos, María Enriqueta ; Corral Hernández, Ana | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2016-12-25In addition to magnificent beaches, history and culture, tourism websites also offer health and beauty centres for the tourists' wellbeing. This study examines the discourse for the promotion of health and beauty tourism. The purpose of this pap[...]![]()
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Morales, Óscar Alberto ; Perdomo, Bexi ; Cassany, Daniel ; Caldera, André José ; Arias, Jesús Reinaldo | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2019-12-04Introduction: Informed consent (IC) consists in certifying that the patient has received information about their condition, treatment alternatives, the effects and consequences derived from the clinical procedure. Its use in the dental clinic p[...]![]()
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The appropriate use of hedging in scientific discourse is a vital skill for wri- ters presenting their knowledge in an academic discourse community and much work has therefore been done on this relevant feature, especially on its use in the rhet[...]![]()
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The paper addresses the role of the cognitive model profile, one of the fundamental constructs in LCCM Theory (a.k.a. access semantics), in meaning construction and knowledge representation with respect to the concept of Europe. The study is bas[...]![]()
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El análisis lingüístico de documentos cinematográficos se presenta en este tra- bajo como un elemento de especial importancia en la didáctica de lenguas extranjeras basada en la integración de lengua y contenidos. El uso del cine con el fin e[...]![]()
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The lexicon of air transport has received the influence of terms from other modalities of locomotion, of sciences such as meteorology and ornithology and it has also incorporated loan words from different languages. Although it has been the obje[...]![]()
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Morra de La Peña, Ana María ; Soler, Lidia R. | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 1999-11-26-![]()
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This paper reviews how genre-based pedagogy has been conceived by researchers in the different scholarly traditions, and offers a particular view of genre-driven pedagogy and its practical applications in the English as a Second Language student[...]![]()
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This article focuses on a specific feature found in tourist guidebooks –the recurrent use of foreign expressions or “third language”. It presents the findings of a comparative analysis of a parallel corpus made up of twenty guidebooks: ten guide[...]![]()
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Evidential markers in the form of adverbs are one of the most important and useful tools languages possess to modify the meaning of propositions adding authorial stance at word or sentence level. The expression of evidentiality, described a[...]![]()
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Marrero Morales, Sandra ; Guillén Mesa, Rosa Clara | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 1999-11-26--![]()
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Caridad de Otto, Estefanía ; Río Rey, Carmen | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2006-11-17En este artículo se lleva a cabo un análisis del Marco de referencia europeo para las lenguas con el fin de determinar hasta qué punto este documento toma en consideración la enseñanza y aprendizaje de lenguas para fines específicos, de qué m[...]![]()
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The present study provides an overview of newly created compounds obtained by agglutination in German. It focuses especially on those,which are composed of two or more lexical items in the specific area of “table culture”. One of our primary obj[...]![]()
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El objetivo del presente trabajo de investigación es realizar un análisis deta- llado y exhaustivo de las relaciones léxico semánticas en el artículo de investigación, concretamente entre el título y el abstract. Para ello, se efectuará un do[...]![]()
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This paper examines the relationships between absolute power and language. Nazi concentration camps embody the space where the maximum expression of totalitarianism was put into practice. By becoming forcedly multilingual societies from the onse[...]![]()
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The present paper will analyse two different pieces by Ælfric, perhaps one of the leading prose-writers of the Old English period. These are, namely, his Cosmology –which may have been completed towards the year 993 (Burnley, 1992)–, and his Col[...]![]()
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En el ámbito de la Traducción Audiovisual (TAV), el eufemismo y el disfemismo son dos procesos lingüísticos que todavía no se han estudiado en profundidad. Este artículo pretende mostrar el uso y el comportamiento de estos fenómenos en textos au[...]![]()
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The corpus-based study presented here examines the use of make-complex predicates in nineteenth-century Astronomy. The texts analysed have been taken from the first published section of the Coruña Corpus, the Corpus of English Texts on Astro[...]![]()
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This paper looks at the ever-growing influence of new technologies on the process of teaching and learning foreign languages. An analysis is made of the main tools currently used by language teachers, both general tools, such as blogs and wi[...]![]()
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In a society in which the ubiquitous learning or u-learning (anytime, anywhere) is present in our everyday life and in which the teaching of a second language is not the teaching of a strict rules system, but of a system to obtain an efficient c[...]![]()
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The purpose of this article is to present a novel Computer Assisted Language Learning activity that can enhance both written and oral skills while providing listening practice and cultural information. With the help of a subtitling software, Bus[...]![]()
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Carrió Pastor, María Luisa ; Muñiz Calderón, Rut ; Muñiz Calderón, Rut | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2010-11-29Writing in a second language does not follow a fixed pattern in the different parts of the sentence or text. We can find variations in discourse due to the conceptual implications of language production. Even if we are considering genres which f[...]![]()
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Intercommunication among the members of academic discourse communities is usually achieved through certain defined genres that aim to achieve the community’s goals. As a result, language analysts have focused their attention on how scientists fr[...]![]()
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This paper observes the different talk types that occur in an instance of peer interaction in Science through English CLIL classroom and attempts at providing a categorization of the students talk and analyzing their function. The sample chosen [...]![]()
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Pérez Paredes, Pascual ; Aguado, P. ; Sánchez, P. ; Mena, F. ; Cerezo, L. ; Dueñas, M. | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | 2003-11-21--![]()
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La enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras en el sistema educativo español se basa en la adquisición de competencias lingüísticas que capaciten al alumno para comu- nicarse en situaciones cotidianas. La estilística como recurso didáctico también per[...]![]()
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A publication of outmost importance for a wide spectrum of teachers, for novices and experts alike, who make use of the Case Method in language teaching. Thus, this newly published book focuses on what Zerrillo (2019) identifies as the three Ps[...]![]()
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Book Review: Zuczkowski, Andrzej, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni and Carla Canestrari (eds.) (2014). Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Context. John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 413.