Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos Vol. 34, núm. 1 Junio 2012 34.1 (June 2012) 34.1 (Junio 2012) EDITORS Dirección General Editor: Isabel Carrera Suárez Universidad de Oviedo Managing Editor: Esther Álvarez López Universidad de Oviedo Book Reviews Editor Book Reviews Editor (Literature and Cultural Studies) (Linguistics) Belén Martín Lucas Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez Universidad de Vigo Universidad de Santiago de Compostela Copy Editor: Carla Rodríguez González Universidad de Oviedo EDITORIAL BOARD Consejo de Redacción board of advisors Consejo Asesor Andrew Blake Heinz Ickstadt University of Winchester Freie Universität Berlin Martin Bygate J. Hillis Miller Lancaster University University of California at Irvine Angela Downing Susheila M. Nasta Universidad Complutense de Madrid Open University Teresa Fanego Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Universidad de Santiago de Compostela Universidad de La Rioja Fernando Galván Luzmila Urbanová Universidad de Alcalá de Henares University of Brno board of referees Consejo Científico y Evaluador Joan C. Beal Marcella Bertuccelli Papi Anita Biressi University of Sheffield Università di Pisa Roehampton University Jesús Benito Sánchez Nilufer E. Bharucha Maggie Ann Bowers Universidad de Valladolid University of Mumbai University of Portsmouth Kris van den Branden José Francisco Fernández Zoltán Kövecses Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Universidad de Almería Eötvös Loránd University Mario Brdar Charles Forceville Manfred Krug Josip Juraj Strossmayer University University of Amsterdam Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg Laurel J. 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Gundur · Tumkur University . 81 Reconsidering Coduction: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and the Spanish Lay Reader in Intercultural Dialogue Terri Ochiagha · Universidad de Alicante . 97 A Constructional Account of Advising: Construal Operations and Social Conventions Nuria Del Campo Martínez · Universidad de La Rioja . 115 “The Official Language of Telefónica is English”: Problematising the Construction of English as a Lingua Franca in the Spanish Telecommunications Sector Maria Sabaté i Dalmau · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. 133 —7— 8 table of contents • índice Reviews • Reseñas Christopher S. Butler and Javier Martín Arista, eds. 2009: Deconstructing Constructions reviewed by Juan Gabriel Vázquez González. 155 Hans Boas, ed. 2010: Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar reviewed by Iraide ibarretxe antuñano. 163 Julia Lavid, Jorge Arús and Juan Rafael Zamorano Mansilla 2010: Systemic Functional Grammar of Spanish: A Contrastive Study with English reviewed by Anne McCabe . 171 Eterio Pajares Infante (ed. Fernando Galván) 2010: La traducción de la novela inglesa del siglo XVIII reviewed by Begoña lasa . 179 Raluca L. Radulescu and Cory James Rushton, eds. 2009: A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance reviewed by Jordi Sánchez-Martí . 185 Rosario Arias and Patricia Pulham, eds. 2010: Haunting and Spectrality in Neo-Victorian Fiction. Possessing the Past reviewed by Margarita Estévez Sáa . 193 Pilar Cuder-Domínguez 2011: Stuart Women Playwrights, 1613-1713 reviewed by Jorge figueroa dorrego . 199 Acknowledgements. 205 Editorial policy, instructions to contributors and abridged guidelines. 207 ARTICLES ARTÍCULOS ATLANTIS Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies 34.1 (June 2012): 11-26 issn 0210-6124 Classic Comedy as