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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Saz Rubio, María Milagros del(Universidad de Zaragoza, 2019)
[EN] This paper describes a genre-based exploration of the rhetorical structure and use
of interpersonal metadiscourse features in the Results and Discussion sections of
32 research articles written in English from the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
Magal-Royo, Teresa; García Laborda, Jesús; Price, Sara(Verlag der Technischen Universitat Graz, 2017)
[EN] Computer adaptive language testing offers the possibility to research and practice m-learning using ubiquitous technology. Virtual education in m-learning uses conventional Learning Objects (LO) to enable the possibility ...
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). ...
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 ...
[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 ...
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 ...