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Browsing by UPV Unit "Universitat Politècnica de València. Departamento de Lingüística Aplicada - Departament de Lingüística Aplicada"

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A case study of building and animal metaphors in specialized discourse: Are scholars metaphorical conceptualizations represented in discourse?

Skorczynska Sznajder, Hanna Teresa (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, 2015-03)

[EN] This study provides corpus-based evidence for the claim that metaphorical conceptualizations postulated by scholars in a particular discipline are expressed in specialized discourse. Scholars often propose alternative ...
A cognitive approach to qualities for NLP

Periñán Pascual, José Carlos; Arcas Túnez, Francisco (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN), 2008)

[EN] Unlike most current NLP knowledge bases, where the lexicalist approach prevails, FunGramKB is ontology-oriented, since the ontology plays a pivotal role between the lexical and the cognitive levels. The objective of ...
A comparative study of keywords in English-language corporate press releases from european companies: insights into discursive practices

Skorczynska Sznajder, Hanna Teresa (Masaryk University, 2016-01-09)

[EN] This study provides insights into discursive practices through a comparative study of keywords in English-language press releases from British, Spanish and Polish energy companies. Even though corporate press releases ...
A comparison analysis of modal auxiliary verbs in Technical and General English

Jaime Pastor, Mª Asunción; Perez-Guillot, Cristina (Elsevier, 2015-12-02)

Engineering students should be able to identify, comprehend and accurately use those discourse elements which characterize scientific language. Modality is a complex aspect of the English language for Spanish students ...
A comprehensive placement test tool for language centres

Jaime Pastor, Mª Asunción; Pérez Guillot, Mª Cristina; Candel Mora, Miguel Ángel (De Gruyter, 2012-11)

[EN] One of the main problems relating to language courses offered at language centres is measuring the students' entry-level skills in a fast, efficient and reliable way. This problem is particularly acute in language ...
A contrastive study of the rhetorical organisation of English and Spanish PhD thesis introductions

Soler Monreal, Carmen; Carbonell Olivares, María Soledad; Gil Salom, María Luz (Elsevier, 2011-01)

This paper presents an analysis of the introductory sections of a corpus of 20 doctoral theses on computing written in Spanish and in English. Our aim was to ascertain whether the theses, produced within the same ...
A corpus-based analysis of metaphor signaling in three genres

Skorczynska Sznajder, Hanna Teresa; Ahrens, Kathleen (De Gruyter, 2015)

This study examines the use of words and phrases that signal metaphors in three genres in order to further examine the corpus-based evidence for signaling variation mentioned in previous research. While previous studies ...
A cross-language study on citation practice in PhD theses

Soler Monreal, Carmen; Gil Salom, María Luz (Universidad de Murcia, 2011)

Citation practice provides justification for arguments and allows a writer to indicate a rhetorical gap for her/his research and adopt a tone of authority. Claims must be supported with evidence, and writers must demonstrate ...
A first glimpse at Mobile Instant Messaging: some sociolinguistic factors

Pérez-Sabater, Carmen; Montero Fleta, Maria Begoña (De Gruyter, 2015-11)

Despite the vast body of research on the linguistic peculiarities of Instant Messaging and Short Messaging Service, little is known about the language used in Mobile Instant Messaging in a cross-generational and cross-cultural ...
A framework of analysis for the evaluation of automatic term extractors

Periñán-Pascual, Carlos; Mairal-Usón, Ricardo (Servicio de Publicacions Universidade de Vigo., 2018)

[EN] Following previous research on automatic term extraction, the primary aim of this paper is to propose a more robust and consistent framework of analysis for the comparative evaluation of term extractors. Within the ...
A journalistic corpus: a methodology for the analysis of the financial crisis in Spain

Botella Trelis, Ana Paloma; Stuart, Keith Douglas Charles; Gadea, Lucía (Elsevier, 2015)

In this paper, we propose a methodological approach to the linguistic study of a journalistic corpus. It analyzes the monitoring of the financial crisis in Spain in 2012 by two of the most important Spanish newspapers. The ...
A knowledge-engineering approach to the cognitive categorization of lexical meaning

Periñán Pascual, José Carlos (Universidade de Vigo, 2013)

[EN] A key challenge in natural language processing is to develop intelligent agents which can retrieve and manage knowledge efficiently as well as simulate human-level reasoning. Undoubtedly, the knowledge base plays a ...
A multimodal analysis of facework strategies in a corpus of charity ads on British television

Pennock-Speck, B.; Saz Rubio, María Milagros del (Elsevier, 2013-04)

The aim of this article is to carry out a qualitative multimodal analysis of the codification of verbal and non-verbal politeness strategies in a sub-corpus of five charity commercials aired on British television. Brown ...
A multimodal approach to the analysis of gender stereotypes in contemporary British TV commercials: Women and Men at work.

Saz Rubio, María Milagros del (Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018)

[EN] The aim of this article is to examine the meaning potential of images in the enactment or creation of gender stereotypes in a corpus of contemporary British TV commercials. The dimensions outlined in Goffman (1979) ...
A Pioneer Study on Online Learning Environments Following the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

Pérez Sabater, Carmen (Elsevier, 2012)

This paper shows the results of a pioneer study on how technology is used to complement face-to face teaching in universities following the directives of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL). ...
A pragmatic analysis of errors in University students' writings in English

Mestre-Mestre, Eva M.; Carrió Pastor, Mª Luisa (TransEarl Co Ltd., 2012)

[EN] The Communicative Approach, mainstream method in the teaching of foreign languages in the past forty years, is recommended by the Council of Europe by means of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages ...
A Pragmatic Approach to the Macro-Structure and Metadiscoursal Features of Research Article Introductions in the Field of Agricultural Sciences.

Saz Rubio, María Milagros del (Elsevier, 2011-10)

[EN] Using Swales' (1990, 2004) Create-A-Research-Space model (CARS) as an investigative tool and Hyland's (2005) model of metadiscourse, this article reports on a pragmatic two-level rhetorical analysis of the constituent ...
A pragmatic perspective to leverage English for specific purposes

Mestre-Mestre, Eva M.; Carrió Pastor, Mª Luisa (Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA), 2013)

[EN] The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) is aimed at helping levelling and assessing throughout Europe, by identifying common levels of aptitude. It describes language proficiency based on a set ...
A proposal for the detection and classification of discourse errors

Mestre-Mestre, Eva M.; Carrió Pastor, Mª Luisa (Elsevier, 2013)

Our interest lies in error from the point of view of language in context,therefore we will focus on errors produced at the discourse level. The main objective of this paper is to detect discourse competence errors and ...
A Study into the Integration of ICT into a Business Management Course: Challenges and Achievements

Ferreras Méndez, Jose Luis; Fernández-Mesa, Ana Isabel; ALEGRE-VIDAL, JOAQUIN; Sevilla Pavón, Ana Mercedes (Elsevier, 2012)

[EN] Nowadays, the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) play an increasingly important role in education. Indeed, ICT are considered as very useful pedagogic tools, and multimedia resources are constantly being ...