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Post-Brexit Britain from the Satirical Gaze of Sam Byers’ Perfidious Albion 从山姆-拜尔斯的《背信弃义的阿尔比恩》的讽刺视角看英国脱欧后的英国

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Complutense Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-29 DOI: 10.5209/cjes.90757

Juan F. Elices

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An Interview with Peter Stanfield. The Who and the “White Heat” Generation: Politics, Influences and Modernity in the 1960s 彼得-斯坦菲尔德访谈录。谁人乐队与 "白热化 "一代：20 世纪 60 年代的政治、影响和现代性

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Complutense Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 DOI: 10.5209/cjes.84911

Ángeles Jordán Soriano

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The semantics of clause linkage: analysis of the finite complex complementation types in the English complain verbs 分句连接的语义：英语抱怨动词中有限复合补语类型的分析

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Complutense Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-16 DOI: 10.5209/cjes.88739

Federico José Martín-Padrón

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The Misrepresentation of Father-Daughter Incest in Neo-Victorianism on Screen: Misogynistic and Victim-Blaming Understandings of Gendered Violence in Penny Dreadful (2014-2016) 银幕上新维多利亚主义对父女乱伦的误解：佩妮的可怕》（2014-2016）中对性别暴力的厌恶和受害者羞辱理解

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Complutense Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-15 DOI: 10.5209/cjes.88950

D. Pedro

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A Whole Mind, an Unconquered Eye: Self-Reliance and Freedom in Henry James’s Daisy Miller 完整的心灵，不可征服的眼睛:亨利·詹姆斯的《黛西·米勒》中的自立与自由

Complutense Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-10 DOI: 10.5209/cjes.88056

Leonor María Martínez Serrano

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Guillén-Nieto, Victoria. 2023. Hate speech: Linguistic perspectives. Berlin: De Gruyter. 211 pp. ISBN: 9783110672466 格林-涅托，维多利亚。2023。仇恨言论:语言学视角。柏林:De Gruyter出版社。211页。ISBN: 9783110672466

Complutense Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-19 DOI: 10.5209/cjes.89255

Alicja Paleta

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Does topic choice affect high-stakes L2 writing scores? 题目选择是否影响高风险的第二语言写作分数?

Complutense Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-30 DOI: 10.5209/cjes.85798

Marian Amengual-Pizarro

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Approaches to the Analysis of Metadiscourse Features in Political Discourse 政治话语中元话语特征的分析方法

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Complutense Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-26 DOI: 10.5209/cjes.81534

Ana Albalat-Mascarell

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Michael Field's Paratextual Poetics: Portraying a Protomodernist Sappho 迈克尔·菲尔德的超文本诗学:描绘一个原现代主义者萨福

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Complutense Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-11 DOI: 10.5209/cjes.72361

M. E. Cantillo Lucuara

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Using audiovisual material to teach refusals from a discursive perspective: a research-based proposal 从话语的角度使用视听材料来教授拒绝:一个基于研究的建议