IJES 2018, v. 18, n. 1
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- PublicationOpen Access‘One does not take sides in these neutral latitudes': Myles na gCopaleen and The Emergency(2018-07-04) Asensio Peral, GermánThe years of the Second World War (1939-1945), a period known as The Emergency in Ireland, were pivotal for the development of the nation. Immediately after the outburst of the war in the continent, the Fianna Fáil cabinet led by Éamon de Valera declared the state of emergency and adopted a neutrality policy. Brian O’Nolan (1911- 1966), better known as Flann O’Brien or Myles na gCopaleen, wrote a comic and satirical column in The Irish Times entitled Cruiskeen Lawn (1940-1966). In his column, O’Brien commented on varied problems affecting Dublin and Ireland as a whole. One of the many topics he began discussing was precisely Ireland’s neutral position in the war. Therefore, this paper aims at examining Ireland’s neutral position in the war as seen through a selection of columns from Cruiskeen Lawn, devoting special attention to the oppression of censorship and the distracting measures developed by de Valera’s government.
- PublicationOpen AccessFragmentation and vulnerability in Anne Enright's The green road (2015): collateral casualties of the Celtic Tiger in Ireland(2018-07-04) Barros-del Rio, María AmorThis article explores the representation of family and individuals in Anne Enright's novel The Green Road (2015) by engaging with Bauman's sociological category of “liquid modernity” (2000). In The Green Road, Enright uses a recurrent topic, a family gathering, to observe the multiple forms in which particular experiences seem to have suffered a process of fragmentation during the Celtic Tiger period. A comprehensive analysis of the form and plot of the novel exposes the ideological contradictions inherent in the once hegemonic notion of Irish family and brings attention to the different forms of individual vulnerability, aging in particular, for which Celtic Tiger Ireland has no answer.
- PublicationOpen AccessStudy of accuracy and grammatical complexity in EFL writing(2018-07-04) Lahuerta, Ana CristinaThe aim of the present study is to compare the writing products of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) university students using accuracy and grammatical complexity as measures. It also aims at examining the development of the morphological, syntactic, lexical, spelling, and punctuation errors committed by these learners when writing in English. Students enrolled in a University Degree in Modern Languages and their Literatures participated in the study. They were divided into advanced and upper intermediate according to their Oxford Placement Test score. Compositions were collected as the basis of this study. Results show that upper intermediate students exhibited a higher error mean in each of the error categories, namely, grammatical morphemes, lexical choice and syntax, as well as punctuation and spelling. However, an analysis of variance shows the differences between groups to be significant only in spelling and punctuation errors.
- PublicationOpen AccessPromotion through claiming centrality in L1 and L2 English research article introductions.(2018-07-04) Sadeghi, Karim; Jalil, AbdiMarketization in all public spheres, including academic discourse, has led to the increased importance of promotion. One of the promotional tools usually used in Research Articles Introductions (RAIs) is claiming centrality. In this study, we aimed to explore differences between native and non-native writers in the use of strategies for claiming centrality in Applied Linguistics RAIs. To this end, a corpus of 50 English RAIs (25 L1 and 25 L2) was analyzed in terms of the strategies used for claiming centrality. The analysis of the two sets of texts revealed that they are similar in the mean occurrence of centrality claims in general while in terms of the specific strategies used for claiming centrality, there are differences between them. The findings of this study can be used by instructors of writing courses to address promotion better as well as by article authors to report their research findings more convincingly.