Browsing by Author "Muñoz Acevedo, Daniel"
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Becerra Merino, Jennifer (Universidad de Chile, 2014)This corpus-based research aims at describing a perspective on the conceptualisation of aspect of the English future time auxiliaries will and be going (henceforth, future markers). The main focus of this description is ...
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Badilla Rubilar, Mariela (Universidad de Chile, 2013)The purpose of this research is to analyze ironic and sarcastic utterances in the number of occurrence and their sociopragmatic function is sitcoms from different decades from 1950 to 2010. To carry out the analysis, seven ...
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Defining levels of pragmatic competence in English in Chilean pre-service English language teachers Dotte Zúñiga, Ronald (Universidad de Chile, 2015)The study reported in this thesis investigated how the pragmatic abilities of three groups of English Language Teaching student in a Chilean University could be classified. The speech act of request (Saeed, 2009) was ...
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Saavedra Ugarte, Carolina (Universidad de Chile, 2015)This study is a description of the use of conceptual metaphors and their metaphorical expressions in stand-up comedy routines, implemented by a multimodal approach, both qualitative and quantitative. It aims at identifying ...
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Yagode Queutre, Cristián (Universidad de Chile, 2015)The present study aims at comparing the efficacy of a deductive approach against an inductive approach in the teaching of passive voice in English in a college context. The participants of this study were 36 second year ...
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Venegas Toro, Sabina (Universidad de Chile, 2012)The main purpose of the present study is to account for the oral narratives of personal experience in the interlanguage of Chilean Spanish speaking male and female learners of English. More specifically, the study intends ...
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Silva Bravo, Leandro (Universidad de Chile, 2016)The present study explores the relationship between gender and the use of emotion vocabulary in a sample of male and female 4th year EFL university students. To do so, a descriptive quantitative study was conducted over ...
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Arriagada Cruces, Melissa (Universidad de Chile, 2015)
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López Quiroz, Felipe (Universidad de Chile, 2013)In the recent decades, many studies on the subject of sarcasm have been conducted, though not as abundantly as irony has been investigated into. However, the expression of sarcasm seems to be as relevant as the expression ...
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Álvarez Escobar, Carlos (Universidad de Chile, 2013)To date, most of the existing standard grammatical descriptions of the English language have used decontextualised written sentence tokens as their primary source of data. However, these standard grammatical descriptions ...
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Santander Gómez, Carolina (Universidad de Chile, 2012)This thesis examines the effects of focus-on forms instruction on the recognition and production of the English Present Perfect. A study was conducted that observed gains in a series of adapted tests measuring the grammatical ...
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Zúñiga Pacheco, Margarita (Universidad de Chile, 2012)The research presented here aimed at investigating into the lawyer-witness interaction in examination and cross-examination in courtroom, in terms of the speech acts that they perform in such a context which, as described ...
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Cruz Moscoso, Franklin de la (Universidad de Chile, 2015)
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Soto Medina, Álvaro (Universidad de Chile, 2014)