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{"title":"Examining Racial Taboo through X-phemism in the TV Show Black-ish","authors":"Raquel Sánchez Ruiz, Isabel López Cirugeda","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2019-41.1.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2019-41.1.08","url":null,"abstract":"Taboos occur in everyday life as part of language and culture. One typical way of addressing them is through euphemism; however, sometimes the taboo is broken in informal, interpersonal or joking situations in phenomena like friendly banter or playing the dozens . With this in mind, this article aims to analyze the linguistic resources employed in the US sitcom Black-ish (2014-) to convey the boundaries between the need for respect for black racial backgrounds and the breaking of existing taboos for shock value or in friendly environments within the humorous context projected by the series. To this end, we rely on appraisal theory. The results will show how the series uses x-phemism and polarization as major resources of the black community to reflect their assimilation, separation, integration or marginalization in the United States in the twenty-first century. Keywords: racial taboo; x-phemism; playing the dozens; Black-ish ; humor; appraisal theory","PeriodicalId":172515,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies","volume":"55 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127239546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Body Awakening Through Athletics: A Gender Analysis of Corporealities in Breathe, Annie, Breathe","authors":"Rocío Riestra-Camacho","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2019-41.1.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2019-41.1.06","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of Young Adult Sports Fiction, Miranda Kenneally’s Breathe, Annie, Breathe (2014) addresses some crucial problematics that her protagonist, Annie, experiences through her body changes as she enters the world of athletics and campus life. Structured as a coming-of-age novel, Breathe, Annie, Breathe depicts Annie’s progressive acknowledgement of her body as she trains for a marathon so as to honor her recently deceased boyfriend. First characterized as a rather passive young woman with no awareness of her physical and emotional potential, Annie starts to become a mature adult with a burgeoning sense of self, able to understand her body, academic goals and sexual desires, ultimately leading her to recover her affectivity beyond her first love. As her training progresses, Annie focuses increasingly on her growing endurance and prowess rather than her weight loss. Thus, from a gender perspective, Kenneally’s novel demystifies the weight-loss process as an intrinsically feminine one, aligning it with wellbeing rather than beauty, in contrast to previous young adult novels. This points to an evolution in the Young Adult Sports Fiction genre which should be addressed in order to evaluate the positive impact it may have on young female readers’ canons of corporeal beauty. Keywords: Young Adult Sports Fiction; contemporary North American fiction; female body; sexuality; empowerment; eating disorders","PeriodicalId":172515,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123604289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Towards a Multilingual Approach to the History of English","authors":"Amanda Roig-Marín","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2019-41.1.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2019-41.1.10","url":null,"abstract":"construct (Myers-Scotton 2002; Auer and Muhamedova 2005). If this discussion is extrapolated beyond present-day communities, what becomes particularly noticeable, especially after reading the contributions in the two volumes under review, is that our contemporary notions of languages as clearly delineated and distinguishable entities do not apply to the Middle Ages. The processes of standardisation were not underway, so it is not uncommon to find great variability and hybridity across languages in contact. In the case of late medieval England, the primary focus of a significant proportion of Pahta et al. and, to a lesser extent, Louviot and Delesse, the simultaneous coexistence of not two but at least three languages (i.e., Medieval Latin and the two vernaculars, Middle English and Anglo-French) with an asymmetrical sociolinguistic distribution, complicates the disentangling of the origin of the lexical material used. Myers-Scotton (2002) postulated that frequency rather than integration could help to establish distinctions between code-switching and borrowing. Consequently, one imperative guiding code-switching research could be to obtain the largest possible data sample, something which now seems more feasible than a few decades ago, as can be gleaned from the contributions in Pahta et al. Nevertheless, attestations are still challenging: some lexical items may be hapax legomena or scribal verbatim copies from exempla (thereby not representing the actual language use of the individual); others may be so widely spread (internationalisms) that they cannot be easily traced. Faced with such taxonomical difficulties, each author in the present volumes proposes different methodological frameworks. For example, following Yaron Matras (2009, 110-14), Schendl puts forward five criteria for identifying one-word switches (Pahta et al. 2017, 49-50), and Queiroz de Barros identifies nine types of foreignisms applying graphemic, typological, phonological and grammatical criteria (Pahta et al. 2017, 70-72). The particulars of these classifications vary, but most of them—if not all—acknowledge the continuum on which code-switching and borrowing should be placed. Even relatively","PeriodicalId":172515,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125922586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Alliterative Metre and Medieval English Literary History","authors":"Rafael J. Pascual","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018-40.2.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018-40.2.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":172515,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114452506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EFL Grapho-Phonemics: The “Teachability” of Stressed Vowel Pronunciation Rules","authors":"Enrique Cámara-Arenas","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018-40.2.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018-40.2.10","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the existence of a vast and solid heritage supporting their validity and reliability, pronunciation rules that assist the phonemic interpretation of graphemic structures are not usually taught in the EFL classroom at any level. Since a likely reason for this absence might lie in the intrinsic complexity of the English writing system, a convenient reduction is presented in the form of ten basic rules for the interpretation of vocalic graphemes in stressed syllable. These rules are understood within an EFL oriented conceptual frame that introduces distinctions between oxytone, paroxytone and proparoxytone structures, as well as systemic/specific, post-nuclear/pre-nuclear and adjacent/distant grapho-phonemic contexts. With this approach, I attempt to generate the kind of grapho-phonemic knowledge that might be useful within the EFL context. The reliability and representativity of these rules have been tested against a wordlist of 5,000 frequent English words. Notions of what to teach and in what order can be derived from the findings. A rich array of results is presented that might be further explored and discussed by EFL instructors. Keywords: English orthography; English pronunciation; phonics; grapho-phonemics; reading; EFL teaching","PeriodicalId":172515,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122977348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Alien as a Vehicle for Cosmopolitan Discourses: The Case of The Day the Earth Stood Still","authors":"Pablo Gómez Muñoz","doi":"10.28914/atlantis-2018-40.2.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2018-40.2.07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":172515,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114510502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Love on the Margins: The American Indie Rom-com of the 2010s","authors":"Beatriz Oria","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018-40.2.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018-40.2.08","url":null,"abstract":"Ever since Brian Henderson famously diagnosed the death of romantic comedy in 1978 there have been numerous attempts to “kill” the genre. In view of its apparent lack of popularity in the 2010s, scholars and popular culture writers are proclaiming, once more, its demise. This article aims to question this view, arguing that the genre is alive and well, though living largely on the margins and finding alternative ways to re-imagine itself. It interrogates the term “independent” and uses genre theory to produce a non-taxonomical definition of the “indie rom-com” in the 2010s. With this purpose, this work outlines the basic conventions of these films and ends with a close analysis of a recent indie rom-com: Jim Strouse’s People, Places, Things (2015). The essay concludes that the relative mainstream dearth of the genre is masking a notable presence in other less visible sites. Contemporary romantic comedy is currently leading a “secret life” right before our eyes, independent cinema being rife with exciting examples of the genre. These films are finding new formulas that will eventually result in the reinvention of the genre at a larger scale, and not just in the independent sector. Keywords: romantic comedy; independent US cinema; indie rom-com; film genre; generic conventions; People, Places, Things","PeriodicalId":172515,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126666596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Africa to America: Precarious Belongings in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names","authors":"Rocío Cobo-Piñero","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018-40.2.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018-40.2.01","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes NoViolet Bulawayo’s critically acclaimed debut novel We Need New Names (2013), bringing to the fore the legacies of colonialism and the subsequent diaspora to the West. Like the work of other contemporary Afrodiasporic writers such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Taiye Selasi and Imbolo Mbue, Bulawayo’s narrative recreates the problematic space of dislocated, transnational migrants who are attached to a postcolonial and a metropolitan “home,” and denied fundamental rights in both. Unstable belongings are part of the new subjectivities forged in postcolonial contexts, where invisibility is also a social, political and economic sign of precarity. In Bulawayo’s novel, social conflicts, abusive governments, linguistic imposition, displacement and migration are revealed through a group of African children, first in a Zimbabwean shantytown and then in the United States. This study contextualizes the diasporic dilemmas of belonging and identity formation, while at the same time exploring the possibilities of political agency within contemporary Afrodiasporic literature. Keywords: precarious belongings; NoViolet Bulawayo; Afrodiasporic literature; postcoloniality; invisibility","PeriodicalId":172515,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122928541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluation of Status as a Persuasive Tool in Spanish and American Pre-electoral Debates in Times of Crises","authors":"Mercedes Díez-Prados, A. B. Cabrejas-Peñuelas","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018-40.2.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018-40.2.09","url":null,"abstract":"The evaluative function of language is explored from the point of view of the expression of “status,” or how the world is presented, and its persuasive potential in pre-electoral debates in the US and Spain. The types of statements used in two comparable corpora in Spanish and English are examined using Hunston’s model (2000; 2008) for the evaluation of “status”—the degree of alignment of a proposition and the world—to discover similarities and differences between them. The results show that, in general, all politicians prefer to use statements that refer to the actual world—“world-reflecting statements” in Hunston’s classification—rather than “world-creating propositions” in an attempt to be seen as objective candidates. However, each language group behaves differently: Americans seem to prefer a more rational stance and Spaniards favor opinions and value judgments in the samples analyzed. The correspondence found in the results between certain rhetorical strategies and success in the post-debate elections may be an indicator of using effective discursive strategies by winners as opposed to losers. In our corpus, election winners used more objective propositions in the debate than losers—the ethos of the former may, thus, be more reliable—which may, in turn, imply that this strategy contributes to persuading the audience. If this is so, adopting a negative stance of facts attributed to the opponent seems to contribute to persuasion more than a positive stance of ideal intentions and suggestions attributed to oneself, which means that the audience gives more credibility to negatively-depicted actions than to positively-charged intentions. This conclusion may be self-evident somehow, but this study provides empirical quantitative evidence to support it. Keywords: Critical Discourse Analysis; evaluation; status; persuasion; political discourse; pre-electoral debates","PeriodicalId":172515,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116866045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Writing the Self: Philip Freneau’s Homeostatic Poetic Production","authors":"Álvaro Albarrán Gutiérrez","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018-40.2.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018-40.2.05","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional research has focused on the figure of Philip Freneau (1752-1832) as the champion of the late-eighteenth-century North American colonies’ idiosyncrasy rather than on the reasons why Romantic and Neoclassical fashions coexist in his poetry. The present study aims to  roaden current critical horizons by exploring the presence of a systematic pattern within Freneau’s poetic production wherein the Neoclassical and Romantic literary traditions lie in complementary distribution—a distribution conditioned by the public and private nature of the texts and explainable in terms of an underlying principle of literary homeostasis. The major features of a representative selection of Freneau’s poetic writings are thoroughly examined and correlated with the process whereby the author’s private and public identities are constructed. Ultimately, the analysis evinces Philip Freneau’s deliberate use of poetry as an esthetic conduit meant for individual and communal self-representation and elaboration. Keywords: Philip Freneau; Neoclassicism; Romanticism; self-expression; self-construction; homeostasis","PeriodicalId":172515,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126577870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}