11 articles in this issue
Elsa Pic, Grégory Furmaniak
This paper describes the use of perhaps, maybe and possibly in a cross- disciplinary corpus of academic and popularised scientific writing. It accounts for their higher frequency in popularised discourse by investigating their functions in detail. The ana... see more
María Luisa Carrió Pastor
This paper investigates the use of epistemic expressions in scientific English. The main aim of this research is to analyse if native speakers of English use epistemic modality in the same way than non-native speakers of English and to detect the most out... see more
Silvia Molina
This article examines a variety of options for expressing speaker and writer stance in a subcorpus of MarENG, a maritime English learning tool sponsored by the EU (35,041 words). Non-verbal markers related to key areas of modal expression are presented; (... see more
Ivana Trbojevic Miloševic
The paper investigates how modal hedges (Coates 1983) understood as expressions of procedural meaning, i.e. expressions which instruct the addressee/reader how to process the propositional content of an utterance/statement (Watts 2004) are used in product... see more
Eva Núñez
The main goal of this research paper is to clarify the concept of ergativity, which has been used as a modern term in recent grammar studies, from a morphological- syntactical approach. This term, nonexistent in the traditional linguistic studies on roman... see more
Ángela Mª Larrea Espinar, Antonio R. Raigón Rodríguez, Antonio R. Raigón Rodríguez
With the turn of the century we have seen a string of political and cultural changes that have had a deep impact on economy and technology. The “global culture” phenomenon is nowadays a common concept spread through the mass media, namely television, film... see more
Patricia Arnaiz Castro
This case study presents evidence of the different ways in which metalanguage can appear in the foreign language (FL) classroom and of the benefits that interactions including reflection upon language can provide to language learning in a group of 4o ESO ... see more
Pilar De Juan González
This paper looks at the ever-growing influence of new technologies on the process of teaching and learning foreign languages. An analysis is made of the main tools currently used by language teachers, both general tools, such as blogs and wikis, and tools... see more
Joseba M. González Ardeo
This paper deals with some key issues in a controversial topic, that of the existing overlapping between ESP/EAP courses and simultaneously-run content courses. Some examples are provided and analyzed to be aware of the need of ESP/EAP practitioners to ha... see more
Amelia Torres Ramírez
The lexical approach identifies lexis as the basis of language and focuses on the principle that language consists of grammaticalised lexis. in second language acquisition, over the past few years, this approach has generated great interest as an alternat... see more
Various Authors
Books reviewed:Francisco Yus. Cyberpragmatics. Internet-mediated communication in contextBruce, Ian. Theory and Concepts of English for Academic PurposesWalsh, Steve. Exploring Classroom Discourse. Language in ActionSeidlhofer, Barbara. Understanding Engl... see more