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A Diachronic Account of τ–Features and of Their Output as Vocabulary Items: On the Limits to the Vocabulary Item Ø τ -特征的历时性描述及其作为词汇项的输出:论词汇项的极限Ø

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.14198/raei.2023.39.03

Concha Castillo

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Engaging Malaysia: Greening Postcolonial Memories in The Garden of Evening Mists 参与马来西亚:在晚雾花园绿化后殖民记忆

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI: 10.14198/raei.2023.39.06

Hamoud Yahya Ahmed Mohsen, Raihanah Mohd Mydin, Wan Mazlini Othamn

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Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition. London: Penguin, 2021. 157 pp. 艾玛·达比利，《白人下一步能做什么:从结盟到联合》。伦敦:企鹅出版社，2021年。157页。

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Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses Pub Date : 2023-01-30 DOI: 10.14198/raei.2023.38.10

Isabel Alonso-Breto

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Locating Violence in Kusum Kumar’s Suno Shefali (Listen Shefali) Kusum Kumar的《Suno Shefali》中的暴力定位（听Shefali）

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Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses Pub Date : 2023-01-30 DOI: 10.14198/raei.2023.38.04

Vikram Singh Thakur

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The Anti-Jacobin and its Parodic Strategies: Parodying Jacobin Ideas and Authors 反雅各宾及其戏仿策略——对雅各宾思想和作者的戏仿

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Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses Pub Date : 2023-01-30 DOI: 10.14198/raei.2023.38.08

María Rocío Ramos Ramos

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Dramaturgy and the Plausible Wonder in Restoration Fiction, 1660–1670 复辟小说中的戏剧与似是而非的奇迹(1660-1670

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Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses Pub Date : 2023-01-30 DOI: 10.14198/raei.2023.38.07

Tomás Monterrey

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A Bird’s-Eye View over Sydney: Animal Imagery in Amnesty by Aravind Adiga 悉尼鸟瞰图：阿拉文德·阿迪加的《大赦中的动物形象》

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Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses Pub Date : 2023-01-30 DOI: 10.14198/raei.2023.38.03

Costanza Mondo

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“I Used to Think We Were the Same Person:” Disrupting the Ideal Nuclear Family Myth through Incest, Adultery and Gendered Violence in Taboo (2017-) 《我曾经以为我们是同一个人》:通过《禁忌》中的乱伦、通奸和性别暴力打破理想核心家庭神话(2017-)

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Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses Pub Date : 2023-01-30 DOI: 10.14198/raei.2023.38.02

D. Pedro

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The Assessment of Motivation in the Learning of EFL at University Level: Validation of the English Language Learning Motivation Scale (ELLMS) at Four Spanish State Universities 大学英语学习动机的评估:西班牙四所州立大学英语学习动机量表(ELLMS)的验证

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Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses Pub Date : 2023-01-30 DOI: 10.14198/raei.2023.38.09

María del Carmen Garrido-Hornos

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From Bama’s Karukku ([1992] 2014) to Yashica Dutt’s Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir (2019): The Changing Nature of Dalit Feminist Consciousness 从奥巴马的《Karukku》([1992]2014)到雅什卡·杜特的《以达利特身份出柜:回忆录》(2019):达利特女权主义意识的本质变化

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Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses Pub Date : 2023-01-30 DOI: 10.14198/raei.2023.38.01

B. Cherechés

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