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

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

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Conceptual metaphors in taboo-induced lexical variation Eliecer Crespo Fernández

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

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Some thoughts on slang Jonathon Green

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Culinary Caribbean English lexicon in Panamanian Spanish Martín Jamieson

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

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

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

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

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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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Book notice: a new book of Germanic, Jewish, Romance and Slavic linguistic interest Revista alicantina de estudios ingleses

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Reviews

Reviews Revista alicantina de estudios ingleses

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Rodríguez González, Félix. 2011. Diccionario del sexo y el erotismo. Alianza Editorial: Madrid. 1150 pp. Martín Jamieson

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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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Born under a Million Shadows, by Andrea Busfield. London: Black Swan, 2009 Bill Phillips

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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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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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Ifantidou, Elly. 2011. Genres and Pragmatic Understanding. Athens: Patakis Publishers Begoña Clavel Arroitia

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