Rafael Alejo González- English Philology
- Professor at University of Extremadura
Rafael Alejo González
- English Philology
- Professor at University of Extremadura
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The ubiquity of metaphor in academic communication in English is well attested, as are the important ideational, interpersonal and textual functions it fulfils. It is thus surprising that this type of language use has received very little research attention in contexts where English is being used as Lingua Franca (ELF), as English as the Medium of...
In the present article, I study the language used in three English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) digital marketing seminars, in which the tutor and other participants gave feedback about the ‘pitches’, (i.e., short marketing speeches), presented by students in the same session. As this activity involved making reference to what students said in...
Esta guía es uno de los resultados que se derivan del proyecto de investigación “Diseño de entornos virtuales de aprendizaje colaborativo para la enseñanza integrada de contenidos y lenguas extranjeras (AICLE) en la Educación Superior adaptados a la Universidad de Extremadura (ICLUEx)”, financiado por la Consejería de Economía, Ciencia y Agenda Dig...
Metaphor use in university contexts has received some attention by the literature (e.g., Steen et al., 2010; Herrmann, 20113; Berber Sardinha, 2015; Littlemore et al., 2011), which has mostly focussed on the language produced by academics. However, more dialogic forms of academic communications, where students are afforded opportunities for feedbac...
This study analyzes interaction in a primary school science classroom. We compare the verbal scaffolding strategies used by a teacher during lessons from the same instructional unit taught in CLIL (English) and regular (Spanish) contexts. Results show that although there was no difference in the amount of information (‘content’) made available to s...
This paper explores the impact of exposure on the development of receptive vocabulary knowledge of L2 learners in two different types of instructional context -mainstream English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). In order to measure vocabulary size, the 2K and academic version of the Vocabulary Levels...
Exploring the role that metaphor plays in our linguistic and conceptual systems from a Cognitive Linguistics (CL)-oriented perspective has attracted a great deal of attention for the past three decades. The analysis of the applications of some theoretical tenets of CL (mainly the notion of linguistic motivation) has been particularly fruitful in fo...
In recent years, Cognitive Linguistics (CL) has established itself not only as a solid theoretical approach but also as an important source from which different applications to other fields have emerged. In this volume we identify some of the current, most relevant topics in applied CL-oriented studies – analyses of figurative language (both metaph...
In recent years, Cognitive Linguistics (CL) has established itself not only as a solid theoretical approach but also as an important source from which different applications to other fields have emerged. In this introductory article, we explore some of the current, most relevant topics in applied CL-oriented studies grouped into three main strands:...
The present article carries out an in-depth analysis of the differences in motivation, input-related variables and linguistic attainment of the students at two content and language integrated learning (CLIL) schools operating within the same institutional and educational context, the Spanish region of Extremadura, and differing only in terms of the...
Since it was issued (Meara and Fitzpatrick, 2000), Lex30 has been validated as an adequate instrument to measure L2 learners' productive vocabulary, mostly, in studies with university students (Fitzpatrick and Clenton 2010) but it has been also used with young learners in foreign language contexts (Jimenez Catalan and Moreno Espinosa, 2005; Moreno...
In this paper, the acquisition of phrasal verbs (PVs) by L2 learners is explored from the perspective provided by a usage-based approach to language. This involves looking at low scope or item-specific schemas, which in this article are identified as the actual particles, prepositions and PVs used by the learners, together with the more abstract sy...
Phrasal verbs (PVs) have recently been the object of interest by linguists given their status as phraseological units whose meaning is non-compositional and opaque. They constitute a perfect case for theories of language processing and language acquisition to be tested. Cognitive linguists have participated in this debate and shown a certain intere...
There is a crucial difference in the way economists and linguists approach metaphor in economics, the former being mostly interested in the representation of knowledge in the discipline, while the latter more concerned with the discursive and communicative context in which metaphors are used. The present paper attempts to bring together the two per...
Commercial websites do not only have to catch the attention of the web surfer, who in the end can also become a potential customer, they are also engaged in the crucial task of guiding the reader through the complex maze of semiotic systems which constitutes a web page. Successful sites are those giving the reader assistance to be able to find the...
En esta tesis se recoge un corpus amplio de anglicismos que aparecen en los textos económicos españoles después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. También se hace una clasificación de este tipo de anglicismos, así como un estudio estadístico de los mismos. Finalmente, se hace un estudio sociolingüístico sobre la aceptación del fenómeno de los anglicismo...
1. The frequency of 'END UP' In a preliminary exploration of the most frequent phrasal verbs (PVs) used in the MICASE corpus of spoken academic English, we ended up with the following data: Although a more detailed analysis on the PV status of these verbs is needed, the reader is most likely struck by the presence of 'end up' and 'figure out' in th...
