Just as Surprised as Everybody Else

Applauded crime fiction author Louise Welsh published Plague Times, a cross-genre trilogy set in the context of a flu-like pandemic, only a few years prior to the outbreak of COVID-19. The fictional nature of Plague Times feels particularly realistic...

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Attempts to Avoid Traumatic Occurrences through the Posthuman in Don DeLillo’s Zero K (2016) and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021)

Don DeLillo’s Zero K (2016) and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021) explore the possible outcomes on the path toward a future riddled with artificial intelligence, as they examine the role posthumanism may embody in future societies. Both texts...

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‘What hath God wrought’: Dystopia, Empathy and Revolution in Naomi Alderman’s The Future

. This article delves into Naomi Alderman’s The Future (2023), a sci-fi feminist dystopia that revisits and updates her previous novel, The Power (2017). Whereas in The Power, a cataclysm turns gender roles upside down, The Future goes further as it...

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Analysing the discourse of knowledge transfer practices: A study of proximity in psychology-related podcasts

This paper offers a study of proximity (Hyland 2010) in knowledge transfer podcasting discourse aimed at broad digital audiences. To do so, ten podcast openings were retrieved from The Psychology Podcast (Kaufman 2014-present), a popularising English...

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Pedagogical Value of Didactic Audiovisual Translation through English Language Learners’ perceptions

This paper assesses the validity of various modes of didactic audiovisual translation (DAT) in supporting foreign language learning, with a focus on a project conducted throughout 2022 and 2023. Fifty-five participants completed a comprehensive set o...

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Suggestions: An integrated taxonomy and its pedagogical application in L2 pragmatic instruction

This article presents a unified taxonomy of linguistic strategies and politeness markers for making suggestions in English, alongside guidelines for its integration into second/foreign language (L2) pragmatics instruction. In response to the lack of...

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Metaphoric and metonymic motivation in the Light Verb Construction with GIVE

This article demonstrates that the English Light Verb Construction (henceforth LVC) with GIVE is motivated by generic-level metaphors and metonymies. Following Brugman (2001) and Cetnarowska (2012, 2014), LVCs are defined based on criteria that are n...

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Buchan, John. 2025. Los 39 escalones; Mantoverde. Edited by Eduardo Valls. Cátedra. 664 pp. ISBN: 9788437649214

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Echauri-Galván, Bruno. Polvo eres y en cine te convertirás. Valoraciones y relevancia de la fidelidad en la recepción de crítica y público de la adaptación cinematográfica de Ask the Dust. Bern: Peter Lang, 2023, 184 pp. ISBN: 978-3034346818

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