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The derivation of verbs in Old English and Middle English 古英语和中古英语中动词的派生

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Complutense Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-16 DOI: 10.5209/cjes.80187

C. Castillo

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Characterizing aviation maintenance manuals written in the controlled language ASD-STE100 as a genre: a corpus analysis 以受控语言ASD-STE100编写的航空维修手册作为一种体裁:语料库分析

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Complutense Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-16 DOI: 10.5209/cjes.80141

A. Díaz-Galán

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“You have two bullets and then what?”: Fallible Paternity in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road “你有两颗子弹，然后呢?”——科马克·麦卡锡(Cormac McCarthy)《路》(The Road)中的“易犯错的父亲”

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Complutense Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-16 DOI: 10.5209/cjes.82261

Sara Villamarín Freire

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Disappropriation and Composting in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive 瓦莱里娅·路易塞利遗失儿童档案中的侵占和堆肥

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Complutense Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-16 DOI: 10.5209/cjes.82240

Rubén Peinado-Abarrio

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On the transitivisation of intransitive verbs. A Spanish-English contrastive corpus-based analysis of the verbs dormir and sleep 论不及物动词的及物化。基于对比语料库的动词“dormir”和“sleep”分析

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Complutense Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-16 DOI: 10.5209/cjes.82106

Beatriz Rodríguez Arrizabalaga

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Complutense Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-16 DOI: 10.5209/cjes.81787

Alberto Lázaro

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A multimodal analysis of the picturebook Daddy, Papa, and Me (2009). Deconstructing representational, interpersonal and compositional meanings 绘本《爸爸、爸爸和我》(2009)的多模态分析。解构具象意义、人际意义和构成意义

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Complutense Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-16 DOI: 10.5209/cjes.71508

María Martínez Lirola

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Mauranen, A., and Vetchinnikova, S. (Eds.). (2020). Language Change: The Impact of English as a Lingua Franca. Cambridge University Press Mauranen, A.和Vetchinnikova, S.(编)。(2020)。语言变化:英语作为通用语的影响。剑桥大学出版社

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Complutense Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-15 DOI: 10.5209/cjes.78219

María Ángeles Jurado-Bravo

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Gothic Overtones: The Female Monster in Margaret Atwood’s “Lusus Naturae” 哥特式色彩:玛格丽特·阿特伍德《自然女神》中的女怪物

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Complutense Journal of English Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-15 DOI: 10.5209/cjes.70314

Manuela López Ramírez

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Reconstructing Realism in Post-Postmodern Narrative: Dave Eggers’s A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 在后后现代叙事中重构现实主义:戴夫·埃格斯令人心碎的惊人天才作品