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Hedges, Boosters and Tag Questions in The Big Bang Theory: A Gender Perspective
(2014-02-21)
The aim of the present study is to investigate the overall frequency of hedges,
boosters and tag questions in a selected number of episodes of the TV show The Big
Bang Theory, and whether or not there are any gender ...
Presentations of Femininity in Patrick Marber's Closer
(2014-02-07)
This essay explores the presentation of femininity in Patrick Marber's play Closer from perspectives borrowed from Michel Foucault and feminists inspired by post-structuralism and social constructivism. Foucault describes ...
His Dark Teaching Materials. Using Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials in a language classroom
(2014-02-19)
This essay argues the usefulness in an English language teaching context of the novel His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman in terms of a project focused around ethics, morality and the quest for personal identity. It also ...
Heteronormativity in EFL textbooks
(2015-04-09)
Gender is a binary construction reinforced by language, and reinforcing heterosexuality. When learning a foreign language, one has the ability to reconstruct one’s norms and therefore acquire strategies for avoiding ...
THE FALSE PROMISE OF ‘USTOPIA’. Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy: Utopian Feminist Romp or Dystopian Postfeminist Cautionary Tale?
(2016-09-26)
The Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s dystopian MaddAddam trilogy is a text that attempts a critical rebalancing of an established gender hierarchy. The novels expose the fundamental power imbalances present in a binary ...