No 24

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14198/raei.2011.24

Table of Contents

Articles

Religious focalisation in dictionaries: a comparative case study between English and Spanish
María Alonso Alonso, Laura Torrado Mariñas
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7-29
The effect of dictionary training in the teaching of English as a foreign language
Margarita Cote González, Cristina Tejedor Martínez
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31-52
Conceptual metaphors in taboo-induced lexical variation
Eliecer Crespo Fernández
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53-71
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’)
David L. Gold
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73-129
Exploring the Canarian contribution to the Hispanicism in English
María Isabel González Cruz
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131-152
Some thoughts on slang
Jonathon Green
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153-171
Culinary Caribbean English lexicon in Panamanian Spanish
Martín Jamieson
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173-189
Routes for development in the pragmaticalization of sorry as a formulaic marker
Clara Molina
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191-212
Words and patterns: lexico-grammatical patterns and semantic relations in domain-specific discourses
Concepción Orna-Montesinos
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213-233
Expressive devices in the language of English- and Spanish-speaking youth
Félix Rodríguez González, Anna-Brita Stenström
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235-256
On the pragmatic function of anglicisms in Spanish: a case study
María Isabel González Cruz, María Jesús Rodríguez Medina
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257-273
Unconventional English in a conventional setting: the genesis and joy of the New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Terry Victor
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275-296
Book notice: a new book of Germanic, Jewish, Romance and Slavic linguistic interest
Revista alicantina de estudios ingleses
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297-299

Reviews

Reviews
Revista alicantina de estudios ingleses
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303-327
Rodríguez González, Félix. 2011. Diccionario del sexo y el erotismo. Alianza Editorial: Madrid. 1150 pp.
Martín Jamieson
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303-305
Henry, Gordon D. Jr. Stories Through Theories. Theories Through Stories. North American Indian Writing, Storytelling, and Critique. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2009. 327 pp.
M. Teresa González Mínguez
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306-310
Born under a Million Shadows, by Andrea Busfield. London: Black Swan, 2009
Bill Phillips
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311-314
Sergio Maruenda-Bataller and Begoña Clavel-Arroitia (eds.) (2011): Multiple Voices in Academic and Professional Discourse: Current Issues in Specialised Language Research, Teaching and New Technologies. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 673 pages.
María Ángeles Ruiz Moneva
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315-321
La comunicación escrita en el siglo XXI, Quaderns de Filologia, Estudis Lingüistics Vol. XVI, Nicolás Estévez, José Ramón Gómez and María Carbonell, The University of Valencia, 2011
Francisca González Arias
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322-323
Ifantidou, Elly. 2011. Genres and Pragmatic Understanding. Athens: Patakis Publishers
Begoña Clavel Arroitia
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324-327