Charles Dickens and Emily Bronte are among the greatest novelists in the 19th century in English literature. Great expectations and Wuthering Heights can respectively be regarded as their representative works. In these novels both Heathcliff’s love…
The Cenci is the embodiment of Cenci and Beatrice's struggle for power and dominance. From the outset, the reader is informed about Cenci’s making abuse of power to perform whatever he wishes; he exonerated himself from charges by using his money and…
“Hills Like White Elephants,” set in Spain, is the story of an American man and a girl sitting at an outdoor café in a Spanish train station and waiting for a fast, non-stop train coming from Barcelona to take them to Madrid. Referred to by the…
In our corpus extracted from LDCE (2003) I have noted some examples of the lexical plurals with s in which s is deleted in back formation or replaced in paradigmatic derivation: (1a) scissors > scissor v., barracks > barrack (soldiers) v.,…
As the Council of Europe suggests foreign language teaching needs to comprise not only linguistic performance but also intercultural consciousness and intercultural skills. Despite being grammatically and lexically competent, many university students…
This article is a field study that tries to verify the effect of gender on the scope of Persian and English written texts. Variables such as color terms, swearing, hedges, intensifiers, tag questions, adjectives of approximation and adjectives are…
Every profession has its own vocabulary and every professional would like to use (to communicate rapidly and effectively – orally or in writing) these specialised terms in the language that he/she uses (be it his/her mother tongue or a second…
This paper investigates the way students within a Juvenile Detention Center in Brazil, experienced the learning of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). If a youth under 18 violates some of the Brazilian laws, the “Statute of the Child and the…
The aim of this paper is to present some aspects pertaining to the interpretation of a special kind of relative clause construction, which is distinguished from restrictive and non-restrictive (appositives) relative clauses, namely amount relatives. …
This pilot study investigates the effects of community-service learning (CSL) in the development of the intercultural communicative competence (ICC) among intermediate level Spanish learners. The ICC highlights the importance of appropriate and…
