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    Accessing and maintaining referents in L2 processing of wh-dependencies
    (2014) Miller, A. Kate; Department of World Languages & Cultures, School of Liberal Arts
    This study considers the role of lexical access in the activation and maintenance of referents interacting with syntactic computations during the online processing of wh-dependencies in second-language French by beginning (N = 39), low intermediate (N = 40), and high intermediate (N = 35) learners. Two computer-paced reading tasks involving concurrent picture classification were designed to investigate trace reactivation during sentence processing: The first task targeted sentences that contained indirect object relative clauses, whereas the second task involved indirect object cleft sentences. Response time profiles for sentences containing English-French cognates as antecedents were compared with those for sentences with noncognate vocabulary. All learner participants produced differing response patterns for cognate and noncognate items. Intermediate learners’ response patterns were consistent with trace reactivation for cognate items only; noncognate items induced inhibitions or erratic response patterns. Additionally, a (French-English bilingual) native speaker control group (N = 35) showed the predicted response pattern with the noncognate items only. These findings indicate that the role of lexical access in sentence processing merits further consideration.
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    Agreements With(out) Consideration: The World of Gifts and The World of Contracts
    (Univ Sao Paulo U of Porto, School of Law, 2020) Mallorquí-Ruscalleda, Enric
    Given my intellectual interest in the subject, and for the complexity posed by the world of gift-giving with moral aspects and the world of contract law, in this essay I will: 1) present –and comment– the definitions of the elements that come into play for the discussion –and in this order– of this subject: contract, promise, and gift; 2) I will attempt to answer the question of whether a gift can constitute a valid contract and, therefore, become enforceable; in this section, I will explore both legal and moral issues, although they are related to each other; and, finally, 3) I will offer some brief conclusions from, of course, the observations pointed out in my work.
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    Análisis de la política de comunicación institucional durante la crisis del coronarivus
    (Convenit Internacional (Univ. Sao Paulo/Instituto Jurídico Interdisciplinar da Univ. do Porto), 2022) Mallorquí-Ruscalleda, Enric
    In this work, I analyze the communication policy management carried out by the press office of the “City” Council of Cassà de la Selva during the outbreak and first months of the Covid-19 pandemic. After indicating the problems that I have noticed in this regard, I present some possible solutions, as a guide, to improve, or to create, a communication plan, especially essential in times of crisis like the current one.
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    Approaching Composition as Showing–Telling through Translanguaging: Weaving Multilingualism, Multimodality, and Multiliteracies in a Digital Collage Proyecto Final
    (MDPI, 2022) Prada, Josh; World Languages and Cultures, School of Liberal Arts
    Couched in theories of translanguaging, multimodality, and multiliteracies, this article explores digital compositions (i.e., digital collages) as spaces for identity representation through the proyectos finales produced by 22 students in a Spanish composition class for heritage/native speakers in a U.S. university. Each digital collage was accompanied by two written documents: one describing the processes leading to its creation, and another one explaining the meaning of the collage and its components. Qualitative content analysis was used to investigate the submissions, with particular attention paid to instances of identity, experience, and self-representation through complex orchestrations of flexible multilingual and multimodal meaning- and sense-making. The proyecto final is discussed in terms of the curricular innovation for courses designed for racialized language-minoritized multilingual students, describing the nature and affordances of translanguaging in this context, and advancing an approach to digital composing as showing–telling.
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    Apuntes sobre la expresión del neutro en español
    (John Benjamins, 2021-07) Zulaica Hernández, Iker; World Languages and Cultures, School of Liberal Arts
    Por su naturaleza intrínsecamente compleja a nivel semántico y formal dentro del sistema de género gramatical, la enseñanza del neutro generalmente se restringe a la exposición, un tanto marginal, de los usos referenciales más básicos de las formas neutras. La realidad es que los elementos neutros del español son frecuentes en todos los registros, se presentan en estructuras sintácticas diversas y presentan usos menos conocidos, pero igualmente importantes a nivel comunicativo. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo ofrecer una visión exhaustiva sobre la expresión del neutro en español y presentar su riqueza referencial y distribucional. Además de presentar exhaustivamente sus posibilidades referenciales y distribucionales más conocidas, se presentan también otros usos y construcciones menos conocidos, pero igualmente frecuentes en la lengua coloquial. Asimismo se analizan varias extensiones de significado y funcionales que incluyen formas neutras.
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    Ars grammaticae. El latín medieval hispánico de Ramón Llull.
    (U. of São Paulo/Editora Mandruvá (Notandum Libro, 18)., 2015) Mallorquí-Ruscalleda, Enric
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    The Art of Living in Early Modern Spain (Syllabus)
    (2022) Mallorquí-Ruscalleda, Enric
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    AVE/EVA: Un recorrido por la historia cultural de las mujeres en España
    (2021-11-03) Mallorquí-Ruscalleda, Enric
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    AVE/EVA: Un recorrido por la historia cultural de las mujeres en España
    (2021) Mallorquí-Ruscalleda, Enric
    Within the system of patriarchy that has presided over the West throughout history, women –and femininity– have been represented in a contrasting, antagonistic and irreconcilable way based on what has materialized with the AVE/EVA palindrome. Given the centrality of this theme and its renewed relevance within the political and social debates around gender, this conference will draw a historical overview of the different and conflicting representations of women throughout the history of Spain from the analysis of literary texts and other cultural artifacts that will help us better understand the different representations of women that have served as the basis for building the different constructions of gender identity throughout the centuries.