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Autor/s Bettina BeinhoffAnglia Ruskin University Cambridge, United Kingdom   ABSTRACT This paper explores the representation of speech development and particularly perceptive skills in the CEFR level descriptions. The speech-related CEFR sections and related level descriptions are vague and none of the assumptions made therein (such as the supposed linear progression between levels) have been sufficiently tested yet. This paper presents an exploratory study on speech perception in language learners at different levels of proficiency and from different first language (L1) backgrounds (Spanish and German). The study is based on transcriptions in response to short narratives, and investigates what kind of influence listeners’ levels of proficiency in the second language (in this case English) and their L1 backgrounds have on how intelligibility is perceived. The results suggest that proficiency levels and L1 background do indeed influence intelligibility (though not always as anticipated) and partially confirm the idea of a linear progression as proposed in the CEFR.

Autor/s Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza IbáñezAlicia Galera-MasegosaUniversity of La Rioja, Spain   ABSTRACT A metaphor can combine with another metaphor, or a metonymy with another metonymy, into a single meaning unit, thus giving rise to either a metaphorical or a metonymic amalgam. The combination of a metaphor and a metonymy, as discussed in Goossens (1990) and Ruiz de Mendoza and Díez (2002), gives rise to so-called “metaphtonymy”. Amalgams and metaphtonymy are cases of conceptual complexes. Several such complexes have been identified in previous studies (e.g. Ruiz de Mendoza and Díez 2002, Ruiz de Mendoza and Mairal 2011). Here we revisit such studies and postulate the existence of metaphoric chains as an additional case of metaphoric complex in connection to the semantic analysis of phrasal verbs. Metaphoric chains, unlike amalgams (Ruiz de Mendoza and Mairal 2011), do not involve integrating the conceptual structure of the combined metaphors. Instead, metaphoric chains involve a mapping sequence in which the target domain of a first metaphoric mapping constitutes the source domain of a subsequent metaphor.

In Memoriam The journal editors and the Department of English Studies at the Universitat Jaume I wish to pay tribute to our colleague, friend and teacher, Dr. Xavier Campos Vilanova who passed away earlier this year. Xavier showed a passionate enthusiasm for the study of the history of the English language and literature, but also for everything he did. From taking photographs, researching on the meaning of the number seven, to studying the history of Castelló – his home town –, he went deep into everything that touched his heart. Xavier kindly accepted to supervise my doctoral thesis (Campoy) on phrasal verbs many years ago even though it did not fit his plans at the moment, since he was then deeply engaged in the study of Old English. I felt this issue on phrasal verbs would be a great opportunity to thank him for his generosity and open mindfulness. It is his wide smile and his distinctive laugh that could fill the room that we will always remember.   Dels Editors MULTIWORD PATTERNS: CONSIDERING PHRASAL VERBS AND THEIR UNDERLYING SEMANTIC SYSTEMS (I) Aquest és el primer dels dos volums relacionats amb els patrons de paraules múltiples. L'enfocament principal d'aquests temes és el de phrasal verbs, amb un èmfasi especial en els patrons semàntics dels quals sorgeixen. Aquest primer número sobre aquest tema inclou cinc articles relacionats amb l'estudi de partícules en anglès com a part de phrasal verbs i en paquets lèxics. El tema aborda diferents perspectives en l'anàlisi i l'ús de phrasal verbs. La majoria d'articles adopten un enfocament cognitiu en la seva investigació sobre l'ús i anàlisi d'aquestes unitats. Dos d'ells, Navarro i Chung et al. també segueixen un enfocament basat en corpus en la seva anàlisi.

Autor/s Ariadna StrugielskaNicolaus Copernicus University, Poland   ABSTRACT The aim of this article is threefold. Firstly, in line with the current tendencies in cognitive linguistics, which direct research toward convergence, integration and a uniform theoretical perspective, recent developments in research pertaining to metaphorical linguistic expressions (MLEs) are discussed against explorations into the semantics of verb-particle constructions (VPCs) in order to demonstrate that these methodologies converge on both the type of questions asked and the kind of solutions proposed. Thus, the second aim of the present exposition is to propose an exemplar-based model of analysis which could be applied to the meaning profiles of both MLEs and VPCs. Finally, in view of the fact that previous approaches to metaphorical language have rather consistently downplayed the role of grammatical categories in meaning disambiguation, the article seeks to establish the function of VPCs in the meaning profiles of MLEs.

Taula de continguts Dels editors Antonio José Silvestre LópezMari Carmen Campoy CubilloMiguel F. Ruiz Garrido Articles  Anar més enllà del metaftonimia: complexos metafòrics i metonímics en la interpretació del verb phrasal. Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza IbáñezAlicia Galera-Masegosa Cap a un model integrat d'expressions lingüístiques metafòriques en anglès. Ariadna Strugielska Determinació topològica versus lèxica en verbs de partícules en anglès (PVs). Renata Geld Constructiu estratègic d'entrada i sortida en verbs de partícules en anglès (PVs). Renata GeldRicardo Maldonado Descomposició lèxica de les preposicions angleses i la seva fusió amb classes verbals verbs en construccions de moviment. Ignasi Navarro i Ferrando Anàlisi de les característiques semàntiques del paquet lèxic [(VERB) PREPOSITION the NOUN of]. Siaw-Fong ChungF.Y. August ChaoTien-Yu LanYen-Yu Lin Crítiques de llibres i multimèdia  Michael Rundell. Diccionari Macmillan de col·locacions per a estudiants d'anglès. Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera Sistemes de gestió de terminologia per al desenvolupament de diccionaris (especialitzats): centrat en WordSmith Tools i Termstar XV Nuria Edo Marzá

Autor/s María Henríquez-BetancorUniversidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain   ABSTRACT In this article I analyze how Gloria Anzaldúa’s seventh essay in Borderlands/La Frontera:The New Mestiza, titled “La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness”, condenses and portrays a development towards the mestiza consciousness presented in the first six essays in the book. This is a well-structured as well as fluid process in which each step guides us in a complex identity-building awareness. This process is an inner journey as well as an evolution in the public scene where the “new mestiza” has to revise and reinvent herself in several ways in order to acquire “the mestiza consciousness”. This essay is also a clear example in which Anzaldúa represents three voices: the “I”, the “we” and the “she”. These voices are one of Anzaldúa’s strategies for diving into what she understands as her collective identity as a Chicana and as a “new mestiza”. As will be shown in this article, the author moves among these voices for various purposes of identity-construction.

Autor/s Dídac Llorens CubedoUniversidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain   ABSTRACT “To the cypress again and again” is Cyrus Cassells’s poetic response to the work of Salvador Espriu, a poet whose reception has been limited by his belonging to a minority culture and his commitment to the Catalan language. In its first eight sections, the poem reads as a dramatic monologue: its author adopts Espriu’s voice, successfully evoking his poetic world. In what could be considered the second part of the poem, a different poetic speaker  identifiable with Cassells  shares personal memories of Espriu: the man, his nation and his culture. At the end of the poem, the emblematic cypresses are identified with the Catalan people and their voice is heard. The poem is an example of epistolary elegy, a mode that allows Cassells to enter into dialogue with deceased personalities who have had artistic or historical relevance. In so doing, the American poet shows, like Espriu did, an acute sense of cultural tradition.

Autor/s Anna M. Brígido-CorachánIULMA - Universitat de València, Spain   ABSTRACT This article focuses on two non-fiction works by Native American author N. Scott Momaday: his 1969 historical memoir The Way to Rainy Mountain and his essay collection The Man Made of Words It specifically tackles performative conceptions of language in the Kiowa storytelling tradition, where words are experienced as speech acts that have the power to intervene in surrounding realities. Taking into account 20th century ethno-cultural and linguistic policies in the United States, the article also reflects on the role indigenous languages may play in contemporary Native American Literature, which has most often been written in English.

Autor/s Jesús Ángel GonzálezJavier BarberoUniversidad de Cantabria, Spain   ABSTRACT This article describes a research project carried out at the University of Cantabria, Spain. Having identified a lack of communication between different levels of the education system, the co-authors have carried out qualitative research (“long interviews” with Primary and Secondary CLIL teachers) in order to identify the best methodological guidelines to be followed in CLIL classes. These guidelines have been summarized in a CLIL-methodology Decalogue to be used at the Tertiary Level.

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