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Libro MISCELANEA 57 2Color.Indb revista de estudios ingleses y norteamericanos miscelánea vol. 57 Volumen de lengua 2018 y lingüística Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies Vol. 57 2018 se publica con la ayuda económica del Departamento (Volumen de lengua y lingüística) de Filología Inglesa y Alemana de la Facultad de Filo- sofía y Letras y del Vicerrectorado de Política Científi- Dirección, coordinación, tratamiento de textos y ca de la Universidad de Zaragoza. edición electrónica (vol. 57): Silvia Murillo Ornat Publicación semestral (2 vols. al año) del Departamento Editor de reseñas: de Filología Inglesa y Alemana de la Universidad de Claus-Peter Neumann Zaragoza. Published twice a year by the Department of English and German Philology, University of Zaragoza, Editores de estilo: Spain. 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Dolores Herrero Granado Susana Onega Jaén Universidad de Zaragoza Universidad de Zaragoza Beatriz Oria Gómez Lena Steveker Universidad de Zaragoza University of Saarland Silvia Pellicer Ortín Juan Antonio Suárez Sánchez Universidad de Zaragoza Universidad de Murcia Beatriz Penas Ibáñez Rubén Valdés Miyares Universidad de Oviedo Universidad de Zaragoza Javier Valenzuela Javier Pérez Guerra Universidad de Murcia Universidad de Vigo Ignacio Vázquez Orta Ramón Plo Alastrué Universidad de Zaragoza Universidad de Zaragoza Rafael Vélez Núñez Juan Antonio Prieto Pablos Universidad de Cádiz Universidad de Sevilla Rachel Whittaker Constanza del Río Álvaro Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Universidad de Zaragoza Francisco Yus Ramos Miguel F. Ruiz Garrido Universidad de Alicante Universidad Jaume I Patrick Zabalbeascoa Terrán 7 Manuela Ruiz Pardos Universidad Pompeu Fabra Universidad de Zaragoza Dora Sales Salvador Universidad Jaume I, Castellón table of contents Articles 13 35 MARÍA ÁNGELES AMANDA ELLEN GERKE 8 JURADO-BRAVO (Universidad de (Universidad Complutense Salamanca) de Madrid) “Discursive Boundaries: “Vowel Quality and Vowel Code-Switching as Length in English as a Representative of Lingua Franca in Spain” Gibraltarian Identity Construction in M.G. Sanchez’ Rock Black” 59 79 101 LAURA ESTEBAN-SEGURA MARÍA DOLORES ISABEL NEGRO ALOUSQUE (Universidad de Málaga) GARCÍA-PASTOR (Universidad Complutense (Universidad de Valencia) de Madrid) “A Study of Noun-Deriving and M.ª ENRIQUETA Suffixes in Competition in “Linguistic Accuracy in CORTÉS DE LOS RÍOS Middle English” Spanish Adolescent (Universidad de Almería) Learners’ EFL Writings” “Meaning Construction in Print Beer Ads” Articles Reviews 121 143 149 LIDIA MAÑOSO PACHECO LAURA ALBA-JUEZ AND EMILIA WĄSIKIEWICZ-FIRLEJ (Universidad Complutense J. LACHLAN MACKENZIE de Madrid) On (De)Constructing Pragmatics: Cognition, Corporate Identity: An “Gender Asymmetries in Context and Culture. Madrid: Ecolinguistic Approach. News Reports” McGraw-Hill, 2016. Poznan: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2017. (by Brian Mott, Universidad de Barcelona) (by Silvia Molina, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) Notes for contributors 153 157 ELIECER CRESPO- NOA TALAVÁN FERNÁNDEZ Y CARMEN LUJÁN-GARCÍA Translation as a Science 9 Anglicismos sexuales en and Translation as an Art: español: El inglés como A Practical Approach. recurso eufemístico y Madrid: McGraw-Hill disfemístico en la Education and UNED, 2017. comunicación virtual. Granada: Comares, 2018. (by Luis Andrés Foglia, (Reseñado por Nuria University College London) Rodríguez Pedreira, Universidad de Santiago de 163 Compostela) Acknowledgements 173 Articles VOWEL QUALITY AND VOWEL LENGTH IN ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA IN SPAIN MARÍA ÁNGELES JURADO-BRAVO Universidad Complutense de Madrid [email protected] 13 Abstract In today’s globalised world, the use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is a reality. Given the fact that pronunciation deviations from the native-speaker norm are one of the main causes of communication breakdown (Jenkins 2000), it feels necessary to investigate which aspects of pronunciation constitute a communication hindrance if produced in a non-native-like manner and which may allow some variation without loss of intelligibility. This paper aims at contributing to the existing literature related to vowel quality and intelligibility in ELF. Our hypothesis is that vowel length distinctions alone cannot ensure the intelligibility of English spoken by Spanish speakers, but that vowel quality does
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