The Mediterranean Amphipoda fauna has been widely studied and can be considered one of the best known in the world (Conradi & López-González 1999); however knowledge of the fauna is not uniform throughout the entire Mediterranean, being still fragmentary on…

In this paper, a restricted domain question answering (QA) system is described. The design architecture of this QA system and the features that allow the adaptation of the QA system to the medical domain are also presented. The advantages of…

This article explores the way in which text worlds are created in advertising discourse by analysing linguistic choices and features of context which are crucial in the determination of specific relations between sender(s) and target audience(s), in particular, deixis and…

The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) progress targets have not been met. Nevertheless, the United Nations (UN) has not yet undertaken in-depth review in order to discover the reasons behind this lack of progress in achieving the MDG. From a political…

This paper deals with determining the linguistic competence of university students in EFL
classes that are part of an English Studies degree. It suggests a language deficiency
analysis (i.e., a combination of their target situation and their actual situation) to…

The main contention in this paper is that the process of communicating scientific knowledge could be compared to the role of the translator as communicator (Hatim & Masón, 1997). Like the translator, the task of the scientist is to encode…

Content vocabulary may have different connotative values and different denotational meanings in different languages according to cultural idiosyncracy, manifested in culture-specific "key" meanings and culture-related scripts. Our claim here is that, even in all these cases involving the use of…

The pragmatic approach to translation implies the consideration of translation as a useful test case for understanding the role of language in social life. Under this view this article analyses the decision-making stage translators go through in the course of…

Póster presentado en 11th Mediterranean Congress in Chemical Engineering "Chemical Engineering in the Frontiers of Knowledge", Barcelona, 21-24 October 2008., This study was financial supported by the “Plan Nacional de I+D 2007-2010” of the Spanish Government (Ref. CTQ2007-66780, Spain) and…

Póster presentado en 11th Mediterranean Congress in Chemical Engineering "Chemical Engineering in the Frontiers of Knowledge", Barcelona, 21-24 October 2008., This study was financial supported by the “Generalitat Valenciana GV07/129 ” of the Spanish Government.