Bárbara Eizaga-Rebollar

Universidad de Cádiz | UCA · Department of French and English Philology

The study of pragmatic competence has gained increasing importance within second language assessment over the last three decades. However, its study in L2 language testing is still scarce. The aim of this paper is to research the extent to which pragmatic competence as defined by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) has b...

As it becomes increasingly necessary for university students to demonstrate their language competence in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR), there is a growing need to develop effective, reliable and homogeneous methods of assessment which do not place excessive strain on time and manpower. Given the large number of s...

The aim of this paper is to analyse metonymies from a relevance-theoretic perspective. Metonymy has been considered as an association process between contiguous items within the same cognitive domain or as involving a meaning transfer between properties. These approaches, however, prove inadequate in offering a complete account. I will argue that m...

This paper analyzes the concepts underlying idioms from a pragmatic perspective, following the Relevance Theory proposed by Sperber & Wilson (1995). Hence, the distinction between lexicalized and ad hoc concepts is essential for understanding the nature of the concepts underlying idioms and their idiomatic variants. The paper also introduces the id...

El creciente número de estudiantes en los grados universitarios dentro del marco de Bolonia ha obligado al profesorado a buscar nuevas formas de evaluación, capaces de adaptarse a las exigencias de las nuevas pedagogías. El presente proyecto explora las posibilidades de la evaluación por pares, un método cada vez más común en una enseñanza orientad...

Studies in Linguistics and Cognition offers a comprehensive collection of essays in the interdisciplinary fields of linguistics and cognition. These essays explore the connections between cognitive approaches and different theoretical and applied linguistic theories, such as pragmatics, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics and semantics amon...

This chapter analyzes how hearers pragmatically adjust speakers’ meaning in figurative language, especially in idiom variants, by means of two complementary lexical processes: broadening and narrowing. The result of this meaning adjustment process is the derivation of an ad hoc concept

El presente volumen analiza en clave lingüística e intercultural el lenguaje económico en el ámbito de las empresas e instituciones. Este libro es fruto de un proyecto de investigación que surgió en la Universidad de Milán y que culminó con el Congreso Internacional, celebrado en Milán en noviembre de 2006, denominado Aspetti interculturali nella c...

The following paper studies concept representation in memory, paying attention not only to their linguistic information but also to their images as part of their conceptual nature. Section 1 analyses the concept-word relationships. The next two sections study the different types of concepts (lexicalised in section 2 and ad hoc concepts in section 3...

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