Atlantis, revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos articles from June 2008

Atlantis, revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos archives from June 2008

Enrique Alcaraz Varo (1940-2008).(RECUERDOS DE AMIGOS AVSENTES)(Obituary)
June 1, 2008... Enrique Alcaraz, our outstanding scholar, encouraging mentor and faithful friend, has left us. In these grief-stricken moments, we are confronted with the difficult task of summarizing his exceptional accomplishments. Those of us who were...

Vision metaphors for the intellect: are they really cross-linguistic?(Report)
June 1, 2008... Muchos estudiosos de la metáfora, especialmente dentro del marco teórico de la Lingüística Cognitiva, han afirmado que la relación conceptual entre la vista y el intelecto es universal. Sin embargo, existen numerosos estudios, principalmente...

Shelley's Orientalia: Indian elements in his poetry.(Report)
June 1, 2008... Shelley, one of the major English Romantic poets, was greatly influenced by the Indian thought that reached him through the works of the early English Orientalists of his time. Although his dream of personally visiting India had never...

Polyglot voices, hybrid selves and foreign identities: translation as a paradigm of thought for modernism.(Report)
June 1, 2008... En términos generales el Modernismo europeo ha trascendido a la historia literaria como la subversión de la tradición, fundamentalmente en lo que atañe a la relación entre lenguaje y realidad, en el contexto social y cultural que comprende...

A feature analysis of to-infinitive sentences.(Report)
June 1, 2008... This paper analyses the syntactic structure of to-infinitive sentences in English, focusing on the grammatical features that may characterize them. In particular I argue that these clauses are introduced by the features [[+ or -] assertion]...

From balaclavas to jumpsuits: the multiple histories and identities of doctor who's Cybermen.(Critical essay)
June 1, 2008... Through a detailed analysis of the Cybermen's narrative evolution and changing cyborg appearance, this essay maintains that throughout the decades that spanned its series' run, Doctor Who addressed key fears present in British society: fear...

Exploring and exposing a gap in L2 research: how socio-linguistic roles and relationships facilitate or frustrate second language acquisition.(Report)
June 1, 2008... This article has two central aims. Firstly, to discuss how a sociolinguistic approach to language learning creates measurable increases in performance and secondly to highlight the need for a greater quantity and quality of research in this...

'Making something out of nothing': lesbianism as liberating fantasy in the children's hour.(Report)
June 1, 2008... Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour was notoriously successful in its première in 1934, and its revival in 1952, because of its inclusion of a lesbian theme. Paradoxically, the play's reception has largely focused on its symbolic depiction...

Stance and academic promotionalism: a cross-disciplinary comparison in the soft sciences.(Report)
June 1, 2008... Stance in academic prose has been a major focus of research attention in the past decade. However, studies on stance in the soft sciences have been relatively scarce compared to those in the hard sciences. By comparing two disciplines in the...

Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor, eds. 2006: Hamlet. The Arden Shakespeare.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor, eds. 2006: Hamlet. The Arden Shakespeare. 3rd Series. London: Thomson Learning. 613 + xxii pp. ISBN 1-904271-33-2 Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor, eds. 2006: Hamlet, The Texts of 1603 and 1623. The Arden...

Tom Cohen 2005: Hitchcock's Cryptonymies. Volume I. Secret Agents.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Tom Cohen 2005: Hitchcock's Cryptonymies. Volume I. Secret Agents. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P. 284 pp. ISBN: 0-8166-4206-0; ISBN -13: 978-0-8166-4206-9 Tom Cohen 2005: Hitchcock's Cryptonymies. Volume II. War Machines. Minneapolis: U...

Dirk Geeraerts, ed. 2006: Cognitive Linguistics. Basic Readings.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Dirk Geeraerts, ed. 2006: Cognitive Linguistics. Basic Readings. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. viii + 485 pp. ISBN: 13: 978-3-11-019085-4; ISBN: 10: 3-11-019085-0 Cognitive Linguistics (CL) is not only a scientific approach to the study of...

Carmen Munoz, ed. 2006: Age and the Rate of Foreign Language Learning.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Carmen Muñoz, ed. 2006: Age and the Rate of Foreign Language Learning. Clevedon, Buffalo, Toronto: Multilingual Matters Ltd. xi + 283 pp. ISBN 1-85359-891-7 Research on the influence of the age factor in first and second language...

Maria del Pilar Garcia Mayo, ed. 2007: Investigating Tasks in Formal Language Learning.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... María del Pilar García Mayo, ed. 2007: Investigating Tasks in Formal Language Learning. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. xii + 267 pp. ISBN 1-85359-927-1/EAN 9781-85359927-9 (hbk) ISBN 1-85359-926-3/EAN 978-1-85359-926-2 (pbk) María del...

Nieves Alberola Crespo and Yvonne Shafer, eds. 2006: ?Nimiedades para la eternidad? Pioneras en la escena estadounidense.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Nieves Alberola Crespo and Yvonne Shafer, eds. 2006: ¿Nimiedades para la eternidad? Pioneras en la escena estadounidense. Castellón: Eliago Ediciones. 209 pp. ISBN: 84-95881-97-7 The volume ¿Nimiedades para la eternidad? Pioneras en la...

Jaydeep Sarangi and Bisnod Mishra, eds. 2006: Explorations in Australian Literature.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Jaydeep Sarangi and Bisnod Mishra, eds. 2006: Explorations in Australian Literature. New Delhi: Sarup & Sons. xvi +202 pp. ISBN: 81-7625-709-5 Traditionally Australian literature has been considered as little else than a little sister to...

Jose R. Ibanez, Jose Francisco Fernandez and Carmen M. Bretones, eds. 2007: Contemporary Debates on the Short Story.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... José R. Ibáñez, José Francisco Fernández and Carmen M. Bretones, eds. 2007: Contemporary Debates on the Short Story. Bern: Peter Lang. xi+240 pp. ISBN: 978-303911-246-3 "The short story is experiencing nowadays an impulse that was...

Cristina Suarez-Gomez 2006: Relativization in Early English (950-1250): The Position of Relative Clauses.(Linguistic Insights, Studies in Language and Communication series)(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Cristina Suárez-Gómez 2006: Relativization in Early English (950-1250): The Position of Relative Clauses. Bern: Peter Lang. (Series: Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and Communication). 149 pp. ISBN 3-03911-203-1 Generally...