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What can pragmatic inference tell us about the syntax and semantics of secondaty predication?
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2002)
This paper addresses the theoretical and descriptive relevance of pragmatic inference with the purpose of exploring the syntax-semantics interface in secondary predication in English. Most standard syntactic analyses proceed ...
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Foreign language instruction in the US: making reading instruction communicative
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2002)
Foreign/L2 reading in the United States has evolved during the 1990s with the widespread acceptance of the interactive theory of reading. Nevertheless, the communicative language teaching approach often translates into a ...
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Request in learner's dictionaries: their role in foreign language users' pragmatic competence and meta-pragmatic awareness
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2002)
The purpose of this paper is to examine the presentation of request realisation strategies in three major learner dictionaries, namely the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (1995), the Collins Cobuild English ...
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Comprehending narrative: the cognitive dimension
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2002)
Readers of narratives construct complex mental models or "spaces" within which to locate themselves. During this process, readers construct, activate, and adjust a spatio-temporal focus to integrate interpretation of ...
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Mental imagery: a tool to promote creativity in the FL classroom
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2002)
Recent psychological research suggests that much of our of learning includes imagery as part of the cognitive processes. Mental imagery can lead to significant improvement in learning given proper guidance. One of the most ...
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Un ejemplo de estrategia retórica: la paradoja en el lenguaje publicitario
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2002)
Although the bulk of studies devoted to advertising has risen in recent years, most of the works continue to be devoted to advertising as mass-media. In this paper I would like to look at this field of communication giving ...
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Incidencia de los factores afectivos en la elección de estrategias de aprendizaje y uso de una L2
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2002)
Affective factors have more often than not been given passing attention when describing the process of second language acquisition. This paper points out that however relevant cognition can be, learners also experience an ...
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Una forma de reducir la ansiedad en los exámenes orales de inglés como lengua extranjera: técnica de reevaluación positiva
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2002)
This paper deals with a research project, which aims to analyze the application of a technique in order to reduce anxiety in foreign language oral exams. After considering reasons for the existence of exam anxiety and some ...
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Translators' English-Spanish metaphorical competence: impact on the target system
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2002)
In spite of the large number of interlinguistic competences and skills generally mentioned in translation studies as being essential for translators, metaphorical competence does not figure as one of the relevant ones. And ...
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Adverb orientation: semantics and pragmatics
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2002)
Orientation is a well known property of some adverbs in English. Early approaches to the topic simply offered a systematisation of paraphrase relations between these adverbs and the corresponding adjectives. Current cognitive ...