Ana B Cabrejas-Peñuelas

• English Phylology
• Lecturer at University of Valencia

The present study explores the interplay of Transitivity and lexical cohesion in the President Biden’s and President Putin’s televised speeches on 24 February 2022 aiming at legitimizing their actions, following the announcement of the Russian politician's invasion of Ukraine and the American politician's condemnation of the attack. A further objec...

The present study explores how text-image cohesion is achieved in a dataset of thirty-seven political ads in the playlist “Why we are voting Biden-Harris,” which is part of the 2020 Biden for President Campaign. A further objective is to analyze how multimodal cohesion contributes to persuasion in political campaign ads. Using methods from Systemic...

The present study explores the interplay of evaluation and transitivity in an American and Spanish parliamentary debate by President Obama and PM Rajoy aiming at legitimizing their actions and at convincing candidates to vote for them in the upcoming elections. A further objective is to investigate whether the transitivity and appraisal analyses il...

The present study attempts to make a comparative analysis of two Spanish and American political speeches, which belong to two different debate traditions, in terms of the metaphors used. For that purpose, we analyze the Economy sections of the 2015 State of the Union Address in the US and in the 2015 State of the Nation Debate in Spain. The present...

The present study explores the interplay of metaphor, metonymy and evaluation in an American and Spanish parliamentary speech by President Obama and PM Rajoy, aiming at convincing the public of economic victory through positive self-evaluation and other-deprecation. A further objective is to investigate whether there is a relationship between the s...

In this article we examine the identity construction of two politicians in the 2011 Spanish pre-electoral debate, following four of Bucholtz & Hall’s (2005) linguistic means: evaluation, implicatures, interactional negotiation, and complementary identity relations. For the analysis, Martin & White’s (2005) evaluation model and Corpus Linguistics ar...

En este estudio se explora la función evaluativa del lenguaje desde el punto de vista de la expresión del "estatus"-es decir, cómo se presenta el mundo-y su potencial persuasivo en los debates preelectorales en Estados Unidos y España. Para ello, se contrastan los tipos de proposiciones utilizadas en dos corpus equivalentes en español e inglés para...

This study attempts to analyze the metonymies used in the Economy section of two equivalent parliamentary speeches: the 2015 State of the Union Address in the US and the 2015 State of the Nation Debate in Spain, which belong to two different debate traditions. The present study aims at answering the following research questions:What metonymies do P...

This article examines how the Internet can be used to ease the process of writing by suggesting resources for the planning, writing and revising stages and how they can be used to carry out a writing task. One such resource is the Blackboard platform, which serves as a discussion tool and for teacher-to-student and student-to-student feedback. Base...

The present study analyzes the discursive strategies of manipulation in the political genre of a discourse in Parliament with an aim to convince the audience that the Prime Minister and his party are innocent of receiving illegal cash donations from a slush fund run in the party. For that purpose, we have used Van Dijk’s (2006) scheme of strategies...

In this paper, we make a comparative analysis of two pre-electoral debates belonging to two different traditions-the 2011 Rajoy-Rubalcaba debate and the first 2008 Obama-McCain debate-in terms of the manipulative processes used. For that purpose, we compare the similarities and differences in the use of the genre contributing to manipulation in the...

The present study explores the language of evaluation in a sub-genre of political discourse, preelectoral debates, and its potential persuasive function for gaining voters via a contraposition of positive self-evaluation and negative evaluation of the other candidate. A further aim of this research is to check whether the candidate’s ideology has a...

The 20th Century yielded the first international catalogue of road signs: the 1968 Convention. The 21st Century has brought a new challenge: bringing that catalogue beyond physical constrains, from posted to electronic road signage. This paper presents some empirical examples of the four main strategies followed to enrich the road signs language or...

El present estudi s’ocupa dels glogs utilitzats com una ferramenta d’instrucció per a ensenyar anglés a estudiants d’Anglés com a Llengua Estrangera (EFL) en el nivell C1. Les característiques dels posters en línia i narrativa digital s’examinen en primer lloc, seguits pels tipus d’històries digitals. L’última part del document se centra en la desc...

This article presents the findings of a study that aims at investigating the compensation strategies used by an expert and a less expert language learner. Analyses of the think-aloud protocols, writing plans, drafts, the video recordings of the writing sessions and the follow-up interviews have given as a result a whole range of strategies. Compens...

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This study examines the self-reported strategy use of a group of 231 American students in their writing tasks. The Inventory osf Learning Strategies questionnaire has been created and validated for this study, as well as a background questionnaire. The results indicate that proficient and less proficient writers use a wide variety of strategies; ho...

The harmonisation of road signs is particularly important for the European Union (EU), a small region in geographical terms, but densely populated (27 countries, 500 million people) and fully motorized (about one car every two people). The coexistence of 23 official languages, determined long ago the basic strategy to follow: better use pictogram t...

The paper focuses on VMS that can combine pictograms and text and display all the main signing functions. The combination of pictograms and text in the so-called Multipurpose VMS confronts many problems within international areas. Besides the 'traditional' pictogram issues, some abstract formulations for distance, length and its combinations are ne...

Effective and ineffective writers have been found to differ significantly in their planning, writing and revising processes. The present study attempts to add to the corpus of investigations that have attempted to find out how successful writers undertake the task of writing in a second or foreign language and how much ineffective writers differ fr...

The paper focuses on Variable Message Signs (VMS) that can combine pictograms and text and display all road signing functions. The combination of pictograms and text in the so-called Multipurpose VMS confronts many problems within international areas. Besides the 'traditional' pictogram issues, some abstract formulations for distance, length and it...

The aim of the investigation is to portray a composite picture of the native and non-native expert and novice writers composing and revising processes as they wrote an argumentative essay in English. Analyses of the experienced and novice writers revision processes served to answer four main questions posed at the beginning of the experimental stud...

This article presents the findings of a study that aims at investigating the compensation strategies used by an expert and a less expert language learner. Analyses of the think-aloud protocols, writing plans, drafts, the video recordings of the writing sessions and the follow-up interviews have given as a result a whole range of strategies. Compens...