International Journal of English Studies 2024, V. 24, N. 1

Ir a Estadísticas

Permanent URI for this collection

https://hdl.handle.net/10201/143158

Browse

Now showing 1 - 5 of 11

Open Access
On political dream teams and financial killers : sports anglicisms and metaphorical uses in Spanish digital press.
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2024) Lujan-García, Carmen; Núñez Nogueroles, Eugenia Esperanza
The presence of English borrowings is becoming frequent in Spanish. This paper deals with the use of Anglicisms, including some cases of pseudo-Anglicisms and hybrid formations, in sports. The analysis of the digital edition of various Spanish newspapers, using the Anglicisms search tool ‘Observatorio Lázaro,’ has revealed a variety of functions that are fulfilled by these English(-looking) lexical items, such as their metaphorical uses. This study provides examples of new compound terms as well as hybrid formations and clippings, among others, some of which intend to have certain pragmatic meanings, e.g. being euphemistic or producing ironic and humorous effects on the reader. In addition, it is worth mentioning the usage of English football nicknames that seem to be getting more and more familiar to the Spanish sports audience. The orthographic inconsistency of many of the collected sport-related words is also examined and evidences the recent incorporation of these terms into Spanish.
Open Access
A corpus analysis of the aktionsarten of English-speaking patients with Alzheimer’s disease : a role and reference grammar account.
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2024) Suárez Rodríguez, Alejandro
In this paper, we aim to describe the frequency and relative distribution of verb use by English-speaking patients with Alzheimer’s disease along its three stages. To do so, we apply the semantic representation of Role and Reference Grammar by means of the lexical aspect or Aktionsart to samples of verbs taken from the Pitt corpus of American patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Then we apply descriptive statistical measures and hypothesis testing to the samples. Our results show that patients systematically use states as the preferred type of verbs in the three stages when compared to the rest of Aktionsarten. We also show that there exists a statistically significant relation between the lexical aspect of verbs and the stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Among the explanations for these results, we propose that states may be used as the default Aktionsart because of its easier cognitive processing.
Open Access
Victorian eco-spiritualism : environmental citizenship and the occult revival in nineteenth-century women’s writing.
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2024) Contreras Ameduri, Clara
The purpose of this article is to explore the notion of environmental citizenship in the work of nineteenth-century spiritualist women. By examining female occultist participation in vegetarianism, anti-vivisection, and anti-industrial communalism, it is possible to observe an eco-spiritualist line in women’s writing, one which facilitated a more holistic and respectful approach to non-human subjectivities. Such texts therefore offer useful evidence of how spiritualist beliefs allowed women to influence public policies regarding the human-nature relationship in the long nineteenth century.
Open Access
Challenging domesticity : Disruptive representations of domesticity in women’s art, literature and the architecture during the 20th and 21st century.
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2024) Martin Castillejos, Ana M.; Melero Tur, Sofia; Morales Jareño, Isabel
This article aims to reflect on how the current changes in the context of domesticity are the result of multiple contributions from women working in different fields. It is a collective effort that began to bear fruit in the second half of the 20th century, when an open war against former traditional standards already existed. In that respect, there is a reference to female artists, writers and architects from the last two centuries which calls that notion into question: from artists present at the Women House exhibition celebrated in 2018 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington D.C., USA), where many described the domestic realm as a trap to female writers and architects who equally defy and revise previous conceptions of domesticity. All in all, it seems clear that the theoretical approach that supports the need to reshape old domesticity standards works in conjunction with many hands-on efforts, some of which will be shown below.
Open Access
Abortion bans and handmaid protests : the connectedness of the Handmaid's Tale to the disruption of reproductive rights.
(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2024) Tabuyo-Santaclara, Sara
Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale has gained relevance in recent years due to the popularity of the series adaptation by showrunner Bruce Miller. The genesis of the novel is tightly bound to the sociopolitical context in which it was conceived in the 1980s while the show was released just a few months after Donald Trump’s election, both contexts marked by the looming threat of the limitation of access to safe abortion. The aim of this article is to analyze The Handmaid’s Tale as a cultural artifact that transcends the fictional realm and has spilled into the real world by inspiring a global protest movement against restrictions on reproductive rights. While the handmaid protest movement has garnered media attention, its articulation and effectiveness present limitations.

Browse

Recent Submissions