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Revistas - Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses - 2011, No. 24

Summary

Religious focalisation in dictionaries: a comparative case study between English and Spanish — Alonso Alonso, María; Torrado Mariñas, Laura

The effect of dictionary training in the teaching of English as a foreign language — Cote González, Margarita; Tejedor Martínez, Cristina

Conceptual metaphors in taboo-induced lexical variation — Crespo Fernández, Eliecer

After at least 138 years of discussion, the etymological puzzle is possibly solved: the originally British English informalism kibosh as in “put the kibosh on [something]” could come from the clogmakers’ term kybosh ‘iron bar which, when hot, is used to soften and smooth leather’ (with possible reinforcement from Western Ashkenazic British English khay bash ‘eighteen pence’) — Gold, David L.

Exploring the Canarian contribution to the Hispanicism in English — González Cruz, María Isabel

Some thoughts on slang — Green, Jonathon

Culinary Caribbean English lexicon in Panamanian Spanish — Jamieson, Martín

Routes for development in the pragmaticalization of sorry as a formulaic marker — Molina, Clara

Words and patterns: lexico-grammatical patterns and semantic relations in domain-specific discourses — Orna-Montesinos, Concepción

Expressive devices in the language of English- and Spanish-speaking youth — Rodríguez González, Félix; Stenström, Anna-Brita

On the pragmatic function of anglicisms in Spanish: a case study — González Cruz, María Isabel; Rodríguez Medina, María Jesús

Unconventional English in a conventional setting: the genesis and joy of the New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English — Victor, Terry

Book notice: a new book of Germanic, Jewish, Romance and Slavic linguistic interest

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