Browsing by Author "Zenteno Bustamante, Carlos"

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    • A comparative study of verbal irony and sarcasm in american television comedies and dramas 
      Aguilera S., Karla; Ardile P., Magdalena; Azócar P., Natalia; Fuentes P., Catalina; Godoy V., Paulina; Guerrero A., Andrés; Knipp S., Rocío; Ortiz G., Isidora; Solís S., Mónica (Universidad de Chile, 2009)
      Traditionally, irony has long been viewed as a rhetorical device and broadly defined as “the use of words to express the opposite of their literal meaning.” It has been amply studied in different disciplines such as ...
    • A cross-cultural and interlanguage study of head-acts in the realization of requests and refusals by native ... 
      Ahumada, Arturo; Barraza, Roberto; Barrera, Paolo; Dávila, Constanza; La Torre, Eulalia; Rodríguez, Karina; Saldivia, Tamara; Soto, Nathalia (Universidad de Chile, 2010)
      Objetives: to describe the way in which native speakers of English and native speakers of Spanish realize the speech acts of request and refusal in their respective mother tongues; to determine the extent to which the ...