IJES 2018, v. 18, n. 2
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- PublicationOpen Access“Great to see ur staff are doing their job properly” : customer (dis)affiliation on corporate Facebook pages(2019-01-21) Palomino-Manjón, PatriciaThe emergence of new technologies has changed the way people communicate. Social media have allowed businesses to connect with customers and to market their products more efficiently. However, these platforms also allow customers to share information and o pinions with the company and fellow customers, diverting from previous online service encounters which only allowed the interaction between the service provider and the customer. This new digital space of communication is in need of research. Therefore, th e main objective of this paper is to analyze how customer (dis)affiliation is discursively realized on Facebook. To do so, a corpus of comments published by customers on the Facebook page of a British grocery chain was compiled. The data were analyzed draw ing on Appraisal T heory (Martin & White, 2005). The findings show that customers used a varied range of Appraisal resources to evaluate the company and express (dis)affiliation with it and fellow customers.
- PublicationOpen AccessPlath's Spanish poems and tropes : turning landscape into mindscape(2019-01-21) Pascual Garrido, María LuisaThis article examines seventeen children poems by Sylvia Plath written in the years 1960 - 63, in relation to the poetics of romantic love. Drawing on motherhood studies ( Klein, 1975; O’Reilly, 2010; Rich, 1976; Winnicott , 1956, 1965, 1967), the maternal shift in psychoanalysis (see Bueskens , 2014 : 3 - 6), and attachment theory (Bowlby , 1950, 1969, 1988), it reads love as a continuous human disposition, informed by one’s attachment history, and realized at different stages of one’s life (Hazan & Shaver , 1987). It specifically refers to Daniel Stern’s and Anthony Giddens’s largely overlapping concepts of maternal and romantic love to argue that Plath’s children poems are significantly infused with a poetics of romantic love. This poetics, however, becomes gradually compromised by a poetics of ambivalence, withdrawal, and self - effac ement
- PublicationOpen AccessThe construction of authorial voice in writing research articles: a corpus-based study from an APPRAISAL theory perspective.(2019-01-21) Zhang, W.; Cheung, Y.This study explores voice from an APPRAISAL theory perspective. It aims to investigate how published research writers deploy ATTITUDE and GRADUATION resources to review existing literature in the field . T he study is based on a corpus of literature reviews (LRs) from 204 research articles (RAs) in computer networks and communications (CNC) and second language writing (SLW). Findings show that 1) writers demonstrate a strong preference to express their attitude through APPRECIATION rather than AFFECT and JUDG EMENT resources; 2) more FORCE than FOCUS resources are used to upgrade attitudinal meanings realized through ATTITUDE resources or to evoke APPRECIATION; and 3) one - way ANOVAs and post hoc tests have detected significant differences in the use of AFFECT a nd JUDGEMENT resources and in two sub - categories of FORCE and FOCUS resources. The study contribute s to new knowledge by relating ATTITUDE and GRADUATION resources to the construction of voice in the disciplines of CNC and SLW .
- PublicationOpen AccessChild task-supported interaction in the Spanish EFL setting: research and challenges.(2019-01-21) García Mayo, María del PilarTask - based language teaching research has expanded substantially in foreign language (FL) contexts but most research studies have been carried out with young adults in university settings, despite the fact that FL programs for children are on the increase worldwide. However, there is a clear lack of research - based evidence of what children actually do while performing tasks, which is cruc ial in order to make decisions about appropriate educational provision, to inform policy makers, and to maximize children's learning opportunities. This paper focuses on current research on children in task - based programs both in mainstream English as a Fo reign Language (EFL) and Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) contexts. It reviews studies that show how children successfully negotiate to make language meaningful, how they engage with the tasks and how they collaborate in different ways durin g task performance. Challenges and future research directions will be highlighted.
- PublicationOpen AccessLove, attachment, and effacement : romantic dimensions in Sylvia Plath’s children poems(2019-01-21) Wierzchowska, JustynaThis article examines seventeen children poems by Sylvia Plath written in the years 1960 - 63, in relation to the poetics of romantic love. Drawing on motherhood studies ( Klein, 1975; O’Reilly, 2010; Rich, 1976; Winnicott , 1956, 1965, 1967), the maternal shift in psychoanalysis (see Bueskens , 2014 : 3 - 6), and attachment theory (Bowlby , 1950, 1969, 1988), it reads love as a continuous human disposition, informed by one’s attachment history, and realized at different stages of one’s life (Hazan & Shaver , 1987). It specifically refers to Daniel Stern’s and Anthony Giddens’s largely overlapping concepts of maternal and romantic love to argue that Plath’s children poems are significantly infused with a poetics of romantic love. This poetics, however, becomes gradually compromised by a poetics of ambivalence, withdrawal, and self - effac ement.