IJES 2025, v. 25, n. 1

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Miranda unchained: the evolution of feminine freedom in screen representations of The Tempest.
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Mora-Rioja, Arturo; Sin departamento asociado.
This paper examines the portrayal of female characters analogous to Miranda from William Shakespeare’s The Tempest in four audiovisual adaptations: the short black-and-white film The Tempest (Stow, 1908), the film Forbidden Planet (Wilcox, 1956), the episode “Requiem for Methuselah” from the TV series Star Trek (Bixby & Golden, 1969), and the Ikea TV commercial “Beds” (Cabral, 2014). Using gender theory alongside a semi-neo-historicist approach, my analysis contrasts the representation of these characters with the status of women’s rights in the corresponding historical periods. This study evaluates whether these portrayals reflect or challenge contemporaneous gender norms and societal roles and traces the broader evolution of gender equality and feminine freedom in the Western world from the 20th century to today. The findings suggest a generally positive trajectory, although often more progressive than that of the four productions’ historical realities.
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The shattered language of dreams in Lyn Hejinian’s The Book of a Thousand Eyes.
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) González Rodríguez, Luisa María; Universidad de Salamanca. Departamento de Filología Inglesa.
Lyn Hejinian, a prominent figure in Language poetry, is strongly committed to the task of dismantling poetic conventions by envisaging a new language that resists the constraints of linearity and referentiality. In The Book of a Thousand Eyes (2012), she explores the dream world in order to delve into the mechanics of the writing process, while playing with language and experience at various stages of consciousness and perception. This paper examines Hejinian’s philosophical and epistemological quest for meaning and knowledge, focusing on her scrutiny of language as a medium for expressing and shaping the poet’s experiences. A further aim is to analyze her poetics of indeterminacy and her use of the framing structure of dreams to distort reality, emphasize the role of art as a radical construct, and foster a dynamic space where the poetic language is shifty and elusive.
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Ursula k. Le Guin’s Earthsea and its place in the American West’s literary landscape.
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Alkorta, Jon; University of the Basque Country (Spain)
As a writer that incessantly directed her efforts towards raising her readers’ awareness of social, racial, and gender issues, American writer Ursula K. Le Guin’s fantasy work has been rather overlooked by literary criticism. Thus, the present paper seeks to claim this writer’s prominent position as a writer of the American West, as well as proposing her Earthsea saga as a rightful contribution to the literature of the American West. With this in mind, the paper will argue that Le Guin achieves this by combining elements that belong to the more traditional literature of the West, as is the idea of mobility, with some of the more modern proposals made by the regional perspective of the second half of the past century.
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AWE for formative purposes in the efl context: a study of multiple revisions in academic abstract writing.
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Rodríguez-Peñarroja, Manuel; Universitat Jaume I
The use of automated writing evaluation (AWE) tools for writing practices has become a central issue in English as a second and foreign language teaching contexts. Researchers appear to agree that students’ positive outcomes hinge upon their integration with formative purposes. Nonetheless, few studies have addressed multiple revisions and automated feedback provision in students’ academic writing development. In this context, an instructional treatment for the integration of this technology has been designed. Explicit instruction on academic writing, AWE workshops, and practice activities remain at its core. Hence, this paper examines the effects of self- and AWE-mediated writing revisions on undergraduate learners’ academic writing performance over time and at different levels of proficiency. A series of repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) were computed to study participants’ syntactic complexity, readability and language issues, and lexical diversity outcomes. Results revealed improvement in some of the dependent variables, that is, language issues reduction and increased type-token ratio mean scores, which could represent an initial step towards reconsidering the provision of automated written feedback.
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Verbs of anger and intimately related emotions: a lexical constructional account.
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) van Arkel-Simón, Carlos; Universidad de La Laguna
This paper analyses the domain of verbs of anger and closely related emotions in order to implement a formalised lexical constructional account. Through a detailed analysis of psych-verbs, this research explores their syntactic and semantic specifications. By investigating the roles of experiencers and stimuli arguments either as syntactic subject or object when causing changes in psychological states, the study attempts to shed light on the syntactic and semantic properties of anger and related verbs and the constructions in which they occur. Drawing on constructional and lexical templates for argument structure, this study provides a detailed mapping of how language lexicalises verbal predicates of anger. Overall, this research offers an insight into their formalised representation, relying on the general principles of the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM) (Ruiz de Mendoza & Galera-Masegosa, 2014; Ruiz de Mendoza & Mairal-Usón, 2007, 2008, 2011), Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) (Bentley et al., 2023; Van Valin, 2005; Van Valin & La Polla, 1997), and Construction Grammar (CxG) (Fillmore & Kay, 1996; Goldberg, 1995, 2006; Hoffmann, 2022; Michaelis, 2013; Sag & Boas, 2012).

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