Aroa Orrequia-Barea

• Doctor of Philosophy
• PhD at Universidad de Cádiz

This paper aims to analyse the lexical modals used in the political speeches given by Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn during the final months of the Brexit process. This study explores whether lexical choice shows the politicians’ commitment to their constituents, particularly to determine which lexical modals each politician uses and which semanti...

This paper aims to make a comparative linguistic analysis of the 2020 United States presidential debates between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the two leading candidates in the presidential election. Two different, though complementary analysis, are carried out: lexical analysis and sentiment analysis.

Actualmente, las plataformas de redes sociales como Twitter tienen un papel esencial en la política y los movimientos sociales. El objetivo de este artículo es comparar y contrastar el lenguaje utilizado en Twitter para referirse a los candidatos de las últimas elecciones generales del Reino Unido de diciembre de 2019 para crear conciencia sobre la...

The Brexit process started on 23rd June 2016 when a referendum was held to vote whether the UK was leaving the EU or not. However, it did not become a reality until 31st January 2020, when the UK officially left the EU. Many debates have taken place to reach this agreement between the most influential politicians in the country. The main objective...

Due to Brexit, the UK has been involved in a continuous political debate between Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, and Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the opposition. This paper compares and analyses the modality used in a corpus consisting of their political speeches until Brexit day. Modal verbs are used to express ability, possibility, willingness...

This article analyses the components of a method of literary education aimed at strengthening critical awareness. It discusses whether the current academic context is hospitable to a literary education that fights against the over-simplification of our epistemological horizons. The popularisation of a utilitarian version of university study, the ne...

In the last months, the whole world is living in a difficult situation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, COVID-19 is not the only pandemic we are living since there is another one which has been with us for a long time, that is, the manipulation. Not only did this virus bring illnesses and fear to our lives but also the dissemination of a big...

El Brexit comenzó el 23 de junio de 2016 cuando tuvo lugar un referéndum para votar si el Reino Unido abandonaría la Unión Europea o no. Sin embargo, no fue hasta el 31 de enero de 2020 cuando se hizo realidad y el Reino Unido oficialmente dejó de pertenecer a la Unión Europea. Numerosos debates han tenido lugar para alcanzar este acuerdo entre los...

Non-relational verbs, as opposed to relational ones, cannot replace their complement clause with a complex nominal, meaning that they do not denote a proposition, as the Relational Analysis states. However, direct speech seems to be a proper replacement for the complement clause in the non-relational verb cases. This paper deals with the analysis o...

In any political speech, language plays a crucial role to persuade and convince the audience. Due to Brexit, in the last few years, the UK has been in a continuous political debate between the two most important politicians, namely Boris Johnson Prime Minister and leader of the Brexit movement and Jeremy Corbyn, from the Labour Party, leader of the...

Lingmotif es una aplicación multiplataforma basada en léxico que realiza automáticamente una clasificación y un análisis lingüístico de los textos en términos de Análisis de Sentimientos. En esta reseña se describe este software y se analizan las principales ventajas y desventajas que puede tener.

Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining are becoming increasingly important in the field of Computational Linguistics due to the growing presence of the Internet in our lives. For this reason, in this chapter we discuss the research we conducted on technical and methodological aspects to extract user-generated content from webpages. This data is goin...

Some verbs cannot have their clausal complements replaced by referential expressions salva congruitate and/or veritate. This makes it difficult to analyse them as denoting relations of the type expressed by run-of-the-mill transitive verbs. The main goal in this work is to find an explanation for why some English embedding verbs are relational whil...

The day after the elections we saw a statement from Baroness Brinton (previous president of the Liberal Democrats) saying that Jo Swinson had faced misogyny during the campaign. She said ‘She has been on the receiving end of an enormous amount of comments which male politicians don’t face.’ So, we asked ourselves, what are the differences on the la...

The world is living one of the most difficult times at the moment since a pandemic has been declared by the World Health Organisation (WHO, henceforth). In this scenario, information is one of the most powerful tools, not only to just inform, but also to alarm people and create panic. The aim of this paper is to make a comparative linguistic analys...

Onomatopoeias constitute a much neglected subject in linguistics. The rather scarce literature on onomatopoeias is derived from a lack of reliable empirical data on the topic. In order to bridge this gap, we have compiled a parallel corpus of literary texts featuring onomatopoeias: the Onomatopoeia Parallel Corpus (ONPACOR). The corpus consists of...

The use of linguistic resources beyond the scope of language studies, e.g., commercial purposes, has become commonplace since the availability of massive amounts of data and the development of software tools to process them. An interesting perspective on these data is provided by Sentiment Analysis, which attempts to identify the polarity of a text...

Presentation of the interface which hosts three parallel corpora (English, Spanish and French) of texts featuring onomatopoeias.

Onomatopoeias have always been a controversial matter in linguistics due to two main reasons: on the one hand, it has been frequently assimilated to the interjections word class; on the other, because of the translation-related problems they pose crosslinguistically. These two problems and the rather scarce literature on onomatopoeias have encourag...

En inglés existe un conjunto de verbos completivos que se comporta de manera distinta al resto en lo que a su semántica y sintaxis se refiere. El objetivo de este trabajo es determinar cuál es la naturaleza de este comportamiento. Nuestra hipótesis es que las especificidades gramaticales de estos verbos derivan de su referencia al discurso, de ahí...

El objetivo de esta tesis es el estudio de un conjunto de verbos completivos que no encuentran una explicación satisfactoria en la definición tradicional de transitividad como relación entre el sujeto de la oración principal y la cláusula completiva. Mediante la sistematización de las características distintivas de estos verbos, hacemos una clasifi...