Planificando su discurso a partir de las máximas del suspense y las modulaciones del terror clásico, James Wan logra dar en Insidious (2010) una vuelta de tuerca a dichos parámetros seminales a fin de actualizar, de forma efectiva e... more
Planificando su discurso a partir de las máximas del suspense y las modulaciones del terror clásico, James Wan logra dar en Insidious (2010) una vuelta de tuerca a dichos parámetros seminales a fin de actualizar, de forma efectiva e innovadora, su operatividad. El realizador compone una secuencia narrativa en la que los motivos de la fantasmagoría y el horror cósmico pivotan en torno a la desemantización y la aporía, deformidad o indefinición formal y temática que conllevan una recurrente ruptura de la lógica y la inversión o plasmación infecta de lo doméstico y familiar. Esencial entre los estilemas del filme es el rédito de la atonalidad y deflagración características de la banda sonora de Joseph Bishara. Las texturas atmosféricas y la sintaxis subversiva de este compositor se erigen en epítome de la desfamiliarización y fragmentación tematizada, lo espasmódico, la perplejidad, el silencio o la agresión sensorial, ilustración ci-mera del concepto de fractura y abismo en el texto.
En el espectro de manifestaciones de la dispersión, la exterioridad o alteridad excluidas de los predicamentos ontológicos occidentales, en la multitud de plasmaciones del descentramiento de esencias, acordes a la proclamación del fin de... more
En el espectro de manifestaciones de la dispersión, la exterioridad o alteridad excluidas de los predicamentos ontológicos occidentales, en la multitud de plasmaciones del descentramiento de esencias, acordes a la proclamación del fin de la historia (Vattimo, 1991) y negación ...
This study was a research project done as a part of MA studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at the University of Jaén (Spain). It is presented here in its integral version, without the front cover and the table of contents.
Since the year 2000 and the massive arrival of immigrants to the Spanish region of Catalonia, the Catalan language has vastly augmented its number of students. In the meantime, the Catalan government continues to apply educational and... more
Since the year 2000 and the massive arrival of immigrants to the Spanish region of Catalonia, the Catalan language has vastly augmented its number of students. In the meantime, the Catalan government continues to apply educational and language policies from the EU related to the new public management and knowledge economy. Neoliberal technologies and policy initiatives include creating a responsible, self-managing, self-enterprising worker. By drawing on Foucault's concept of governmentality, this paper analyses work related units in six series of textbooks for teaching Catalan to adults taking into account the governmental rationality of neoliberalism. The study concludes that Catalan language textbooks may function as instruments of subject formation promoting the self-management of a future Catalan worker and helping to create enterprising individuals.
This paper examines the representations of immigrant characters in Catalan as a Second Language textbooks for adults. We aim to identify differences in portraying what we call Western and non-Western immigrants, applying the theory and... more
This paper examines the representations of immigrant characters in Catalan as a Second Language textbooks for adults. We aim to identify differences in portraying what we call Western and non-Western immigrants, applying the theory and procedures of critical discourse analysis. Firstly, we investigate how immigrant characters' identity is shaped in textbooks by social class, age and gender. Secondly, we focus on the way in which immigrant characters with a major presence in textbooks are portrayed, through the analysis of immigrant stories. This study reveals that Western newcomers are always portrayed as part of the upper/middle class while non-Westerners are represented as working class members. On the other hand, non-Western immigrants are characterized by physical or gender stereotypes, while Western immigrants have positive attributes. We also found an idyllic representation of reality, together with an absence of cultural comparisons or information about immigrant countries of origin.
Despite the efforts made in Clinical Psychology, the remission rates of social anxiety disorder are still moderate, which might stem from a lack of sensitivity in the psychological treatment outcome measures. New interdisciplinary... more
Despite the efforts made in Clinical Psychology, the remission rates of social anxiety disorder are still moderate, which might stem from a lack of sensitivity in the psychological treatment outcome measures. New interdisciplinary perspectives such as the joint efforts of Corpus Linguistics and Psychology are, therefore, being sought. The purpose of this study is to explore if the linguistic insights provided by Corpus Linguistics are of any help when assessing sensitivity on treatment in adolescents with generalized social anxiety disorder. Results revealed the relevance of analysing adolescents’ written texts for treatment outcome analysis by examining adolescents’ texts based on the triple-response-system approach (cognitive, somatic and behavioural symptoms) and the DSM criteria for social anxiety disorder. The findings of this interdisciplinary paper are consistent with the DSM-V criteria in the proposed revision for social anxiety disorder.
In this paper an updated overview of the main errors that Spanish students make when writing the English exam in the University Entrance Examination is provided. To do so, a Computer-aided Error Analysis (CEA) (Dagneaux, Denness &... more
In this paper an updated overview of the main errors that Spanish students make when writing the English exam in the University Entrance Examination is provided. To do so, a Computer-aided Error Analysis (CEA) (Dagneaux, Denness & Granger, 1998) was conducted on a representative sample of the students who took the exam in June 2008 in Jaén, and wrote a composition on the same topic. The use of the most widely-used error taxonomy, the Error Tagging Manual version 1.1. (Dagneaux, Denness, Granger & Meunier, 1996), and the analysis of the results by means of descriptive statistics foster the possibility to replicate this study and move forward in the description of the students’ written command in the foreign language at this stage. The comparison of the findings obtained in this study and those from previous (C)EAs on the English exam reveals that some common tendencies may be shown.
