http://hdl.handle.net/11089/33800 2026-04-05T16:46:17Z 2026-04-05T16:46:17Z Álvarez-Gil, Francisco J. http://hdl.handle.net/11089/33805 2021-02-24T02:25:23Z 2019-06-30T00:00:00Z

An Analysis of Certainly and Generally in Late-Modern English English History Texts Álvarez-Gil, Francisco J. This paper analyses the adverbs certainly and generally as stancetaking markers. These adverbial devices are said to show authorial stance and to communicate the author’s commitment or detachment towards the information presented, and so they are classified as epistemic adverbs (Alonso-Almeida 2015). For this study, I have selected a corpus of history texts from the Modern English period (1700-1900), as compiled in The Corpus of History English Texts (Crespo and Moskowich 2015), on the basis of which the two evidential adverbs are examined using computer corpus tools, although manual inspection is also employed to assess the meaning of the items in context. The findings suggest that, in this type of scientific articles, the two adverbs are used with differing pragmatic functions, in the case of certainly it functions mostly as a booster and, in the specific case of generally, its use seems to primarily suggest a hedging purpose (Hyland 2005a).

2019-06-30T00:00:00Z Faber, Pamela Cabezas-García, Melania http://hdl.handle.net/11089/33806 2021-02-24T02:25:24Z 2019-06-30T00:00:00Z

Specialized Knowledge Representation: from Terms to Frames Faber, Pamela; Cabezas-García, Melania Understanding specialized discourse requires the identification and activation of knowledge structures underlying the text. The expansion and enhancement of knowledge is thus an important part of the specialized translation process (Faber 2015). This paper explores how the analysis of terminological meaning can be addressed from the perspective of Frame-Based Terminology (FBT) (Faber 2012, 2015), a cognitive approach to domain-specific language, which directly links specialized knowledge representation to cognitive linguistics and cognitive semantics. In this study, context expansion was explored in a three-stage procedure: from single terms to multi-word terms, from multi-word terms to phrases, and from phrases to frames. Our results showed that this approach provides valuable insights into the identification of the knowledge structures underlying specialized texts.

2019-06-30T00:00:00Z Orzechowska, Paula Mołczanow, Janina Jankowski, Michał http://hdl.handle.net/11089/33804 2021-02-24T02:25:20Z 2019-06-30T00:00:00Z

Prosodically-conditioned Syllable Structure in English Orzechowska, Paula; Mołczanow, Janina; Jankowski, Michał This paper investigates the interplay between the metrical structure and phonotactic complexity in English, a language with lexical stress and an elaborate inventory of consonant clusters. The analysis of a dictionary- and corpus-based list of polysyllabic words leads to two major observations. First, there is a tendency for onsetful syllables to attract stress, and for onsetless syllables to repel it. Second, the stressed syllable embraces a greater array of consonant clusters than unstressed syllables. Moreover, the farther form the main stress, the less likely the unstressed syllable is to contain a complex onset. This finding indicates that the ability of a position to license complex onsets is related to its distance from the prosodic head.

2019-06-30T00:00:00Z Platonova, Marina http://hdl.handle.net/11089/33803 2021-02-24T02:25:18Z 2019-06-30T00:00:00Z

Poster, Poster on the Wall, Do You Really Mean it All? Decoding Visual Metaphor ‘Global Warming’ in Public Awareness Campaigns Platonova, Marina The tendency to create messages using the elements belonging to different semiotic systems shifts our perception of a communicative act, contributing to the establishment of multimodal and intersemiotic communication practice. A visual metaphor is seen as one of the instances of a multimodal and intersemiotic message, which generates a text that is revealed gradually, uncovering numerous layers of meaning encoded within a metaphor and within visual, linguistic, and spatial settings it is placed in. The paper sets out to explore the notion of a visual metaphor and focuses on the application of the visual metaphor ‘global warming’ on posters created for the needs of public awareness campaigns, investigating simultaneous manifestation of iconic and metaphorical mappings in the given visual metaphor.

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