Antonio-José Silvestre-López

Antonio-José Silvestre-López
Universitat Jaume I | UJI · Department of English Studies

Ph.D

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Introduction
One of my recent interests is the identification of ICMs that provide for the conceptual grasping of subjective experiences related to mindfulness and meditation practices and their communication in instructional settings. Some of my latest works analyse the role of metaphor in the oral production of novice and experienced practitioners. Currently I am also exploring the ways in which deliberate metaphor use may become a useful pedagogical tool for mindfulness instructors (and learners).

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Silvestre-López, A.J. (2014). Polysemy derivation in a multidimensional framework. Alicante Journal of English Studies 27: 205-232. The article can be downloaded at: http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/46821?locale=en and http://hdl.handle.net/10045/46821 The aim of this paper is to systematise and illustrate the process of semantic network deri...
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Objectives The Toronto Mindfulness Scale (TMS) and the State Mindfulness Scale (SMS) are two relevant self-report measures of state mindfulness. The purpose of this study was to examine the internal structure and to offer evidence of the reliability and validity of the Spanish versions of the TMS and SMS. Methods Data from six distinct non-clinica...
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Education during the COVID-19 pandemic has experienced a massive shift towards online modes of instruction in higher education. This paper presents an example of such adaptation during the spring 2020 lockdown in the context of an ESP course taught to psychology students at a Spanish university. Specifically, we adopted the Cybertask model (Girón-G...
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In mindfulness and meditation instructional contexts, conceptual metaphor is a powerful facilitator of intersubjective communication about inner events and first-person experiences. Previous studies in meditation discourse have described space as a productive source domain that is used by meditation teachers to characterise metaphorically inner eve...
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Inducing a state of meditation through conceptual metaphors used in the language of guided meditation instructions can have distinctive effects on well-being and meta-thinking. We hypothesized that the use of novel deliberate metaphor in the instructions of a guided meditation in which participants are invited to pay attention to thoughts would hel...
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Meditation has spread beyond the frontiers of religion to go global in other areas of social practice, including secular and spiritual-but-not-religious contexts (Schedneck, 2013). Conceptual metaphor (Lakoff, 1993) has been described as a powerful mechanism to facilitate the communication of first-person experiences connected to religious and lay...
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he bulk of studies dealing with conceptual metaphors in the language classroom describe conceptual metaphor-based pedagogical proposals to teach vocabulary (e.g., Boers, 2000, 2013; Littlemore, 2009; Cortés de los Ríos and Sánchez, 2017). All these are substantial contributions to the field of English language teaching and learning. Despite the gro...
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In recent decades, meditative practices have experienced a great expansion in many areas of our modern society. Meditators often use metaphors as an aid to help them shape their first-person subjective experiences in more conventional ways that they can share with others (Silvestre-Lopez 2016a, 2016b). The use of metaphor becomes especially importa...
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In recent decades, meditative practices have experienced a great expansion in many areas of our modern society. Meditators often use metaphors as an aid to help them shape their first-person subjective experiences in more conventional ways that they can share with others (Silvestre-López 2016a, 2016b). The use of metaphor becomes especially importa...
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Podemos considerar metacognición como el conocimiento sobre las activida- - sideramos que los estudiantes están involucrados en procesos metacognitivos cuando piensan sobre lo que han aprendido, cómo lo han aprendido o cómo lo pueden relacionar con su experiencia personal entre otras cosas. En base a esto, los alumnos que desarrollen estas habilida...
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Contemplative practice underlies the spiritual development of major religious traditions. In addition, this practice has spread over a wide variety of areas in Western society, ranging from personal development to leadership and medical care (Milton, 2011a). One clear case is the introduction of mindfulness and meditation in clinical psychology. An...
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John Flavell (1979) explicó por primera vez la metacognición como el conocimiento que uno tiene sobre las actividades cognitivas propias y la capacidad de regularlas durante el aprendizaje. Así pues, los estudiantes están realizando procesos metacognitivos cuando piensan sobre lo que han aprendido, cómo lo han aprendido, o cómo lo pueden relacionar...
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https://revistas-filologicas.unam.mx/anuario-letras/index.php/al/article/view/1400/1604 El estudio de la experiencia del ser y de la consciencia no es nada nuevo; los conceptos tratados en este artículo, tampoco. Su aportación más relevante pretende ser la propuesta de un modelo de representación de parte de esta experiencia (esto es, la percibid...
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THE BOOK TO WHICH THIS CHAPTER BELONGS CAN BE FOUND AT http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783096251 Rooted in eastern spiritual traditions, mindfulness practices have lately experienced a great expansion into many areas of western society, ranging from personal development to education, leadership or clinical practice. The be...
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IN PRESS (EXPECTED: MARCH 2016) This paper aims at unravelling the role of metaphor in three street marketing campaign advertisements. Each advertisement is the product of a creative process involving metaphorical mappings from an urban object (shelter, bench, ramp) onto a target domain (a billboard). The study draws on two approaches from the fiel...
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Silvestre-López, A.J. (2016). The Discourse of Mindfulness: What Language Reveals about the Mindfulness Experience. In P. Ordóñez-López & N. Edo-Marzà (eds.), New Insights into the Analysis of Medical Discourse in Professional, Academic and Popular Settings (pp. 173-198). Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
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Editor of the issue. This is the second volume in Language Value that is thoroughly devoted to the issue of Verb Particle Combinations (VPCs) also known and analysed under different linguistic trends and terms as phrasal/prepositional verbs, compound verbs, discontinuous verbs or multiword verbs, among others. For the sake of simplicity we will use...
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Editor of the special issue. This is the first of two issues dealing with multiword patterns. The main focus of these issues is that of phrasal verbs with a special emphasis on the semantic patterns from which they arise. This first issue on this topic includes five articles related to the study of English particles as part of phrasal verbs and in...
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In the context of the new wreading paradigm (Luzón and Ruiz-Madrid this volume), the acquisition of new multiliteracy competences is not only a challenge for the understanding of new media and new genres but also a necessary condition to empower learners so that they can become more autonomous learners and can face the changes of a multicultural in...
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This chapter aims at describing the metaphorical Idealised Cognitive Models (henceforth ICMs) that build our idea of a particular cybergenre - the feature website - and of the way such a genre is configured. New genres have appeared recently in cyberspace and conceptual metaphors are some of the cognitive models that help in their conceptualisation...
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This paper presents a cybertask designed to be performed by students of journalism within the subject " English for Journalists ". As a departure point, students were provided with a website which gives access to all the British newspapers and magazines. In the paper, we also present the structure of that site and the results obtained through a sel...
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This paper explores the relation between new digital genres configuration and their users’ previous knowledge patterns from an interlinguistic perspective. More precisely, first we analyse two models that underlie the formal architecture of websites. For that purpose we introduce diverse pieces of software that allow for visualization of website or...
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This paper presents a cybertask designed to be performed by students of journalism within the subject “English for Journalists”. As a departure point, students were provided with a website which gives access to all the British newspapers and magazines. In the paper, we also present the structure of that site and the results obtained through a self-...
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In this paper we analyse the semantic load that prepositions In and On contribute to six verb-preposition combinations following the syntactic pattern " V + prep. + n/pron. ". The analysis is grounded on real language use examples extracted from two different corpora belonging to two different historical periods of the English language (present Con...
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In this paper we analyse the semantic load that prepositions In and On contribute to six verb-preposition combinations following the syntactic pattern " V + prep. + n/pron. ". The analysis is grounded on real language use examples extracted from two different corpora belonging to two different historical periods of the English language (present Con...
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Departing from the postulates of Ruiz de Mendoza and his collaborators on metonymic anaphora (Ruiz de Mendoza 1997, 1999; Ruiz de Mendoza; Otal 2002; Ruiz de Mendoza; Díez 2004), this paper analyzes some of the most outstanding cases of anaphoric reference to a metonymic antecedent in four best sellers. Antecedent selection turns up problematic in...
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John Kerry's political rhetoric: an account of the main rhetorical features of his oral delivery ABSTRACT An accurate use of language is a key factor in achieving personal and public objectives in all spheres of our everyday interaction, but the exploitation of the appropriate linguistic resources becomes crucial for those professionals involved in...

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