scholarly journals Regional perceptions of the 'ejque'

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-129
Author(s):  
Robyn Wright
Keyword(s):  
Canary Islands ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Balearic Islands ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Variable Effect ◽  
La Mancha ◽  
Group Members

This paper explores the language attitudes of listeners from six different regions of Spain, Asturias, Castile and León, Castile-La Mancha, the Canary Islands, Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, towards a nonsibilant variant of coda /s/, the velarized /s/. This velar pronunciation, known by some as the ejque madrileño, has previously been found to index a Madrid identity for Madrileño listeners, though the traits ascribed such a speaker are quite negative. The current paper finds that like Madrileños themselves, participants from Asturias and Castile and León also associate velarized /s/ with Madrid. Participants from Castile-La Mancha, the Canary Islands, Catalonia and the Balearic Islands do not consider the velarized variant to be Madrileño. Furthermore, differing judgments of the nonsibilant /s/ are found among the regions tested, with participants from Catalonia and the Balearic Islands showing the most negative judgments while participants from Castile-La Mancha show no negative variable effect in their judgments. It is found that all of these out-group listeners do not show as severe of judgments as those seen by in-group members (Madrilenos themselves) in previous literature.

scholarly journals Use of Mass Spectrometry to Determine the Diversity of Toxins Produced by Gambierdiscus and Fukuyoa Species from Balearic Islands and Crete (Mediterranean Sea) and the Canary Islands (Northeast Atlantic)

Toxins ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Estevez ◽  
Manoëlla Sibat ◽  
José Manuel Leão-Martins ◽  
Angels Tudó ◽  
Maria Rambla-Alegre ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Canary Islands ◽  
High Resolution Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Balearic Islands ◽  
Bioactive Metabolites ◽  
Toxic Compounds ◽  
Madeira Archipelago ◽  
Species Specific

Over the last decade, knowledge has significantly increased on the taxonomic identity and distribution of dinoflagellates of the genera Gambierdiscus and Fukuyoa. Additionally, a number of hitherto unknown bioactive metabolites have been described, while the role of these compounds in ciguatera poisoning (CP) remains to be clarified. Ciguatoxins and maitotoxins are very toxic compounds produced by these dinoflagellates and have been described since the 1980s. Ciguatoxins are generally described as the main contributors to this food intoxication. Recent reports of CP in temperate waters of the Canary Islands (Spain) and the Madeira archipelago (Portugal) triggered the need for isolation and cultivation of dinoflagellates from these areas, and their taxonomic and toxicological characterization. Maitotoxins, and specifically maitotoxin-4, has been described as one of the most toxic compounds produced by these dinoflagellates (e.g., G. excentricus) in the Canary Islands. Thus, characterization of toxin profiles of Gambierdiscus species from adjacent regions appears critical. The combination of liquid chromatography coupled to either low- or high-resolution mass spectrometry allowed for characterization of several strains of Gambierdiscus and Fukuyoa from the Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands. Maitotoxin-3, two analogues tentatively identified as gambieric acid C and D, a putative gambierone analogue and a putative gambieroxide were detected in all G. australes strains from Menorca and Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain) while only maitotoxin-3 was present in an F. paulensis strain of the same region. An unidentified Gambierdiscus species (Gambierdiscus sp.2) from Crete (Greece) showed a different toxin profile, detecting both maitotoxin-3 and gambierone, while the availability of a G. excentricus strain from the Canary Islands (Spain) confirmed the presence of maitotoxin-4 in this species. Overall, this study shows that toxin profiles not only appear to be species-specific but probably also specific to larger geographic regions.

scholarly journals Personal Income and Employment Creation Differences Among Spanish Tourist Destinations

Tourism ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 454-461
Author(s):  
José Francisco Perles-Ribes ◽  
Ana Belén Ramón-Rodríguez ◽  
Martín Sevilla-Jiménez ◽  
María Jesús Such-Devesa
Keyword(s):  
Canary Islands ◽  
Capita Income ◽  
Balearic Islands ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
The Other ◽  
Per Capita Income ◽  
Employment Creation ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Employment Generation ◽  
Per Capita

This note explores the differences existing in the level of per capita income and employment creation in residential and hotel-based tourist destinations. The exercise is conducted on a pool of 136 tourist destinations of the Spanish coastline, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands. The results point out that in terms of income and employment generation no model clearly outperforms the other.

scholarly journals Teaching for autonomy: what do the students think?

2010 ◽  
pp. 107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Research Project ◽  
La Mancha ◽  
Second Year ◽  
The University

The following paper describes an action research project which was carried out with a class of second-year students following the Degree of English Philology at the University of Castilla la Mancha. The aim of the project was to raise students’ awareness of the need to be less dependent on their teachers and to provide the reflective and interactive scaffolding necessary to enable them to take greater responsibility for their own learning. The current paper describes the measures taken, and how students reacted to this process. It concludes by examining the lessons learned and by proposing a number of guidelines to be taken into account when attempting to promote autonomy in a similar context.

Evolutionary Approaches to Intergroup Communication

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinguang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Communication Accommodation ◽  
Ethnolinguistic Vitality ◽  
Critical Window ◽  
Intergroup Communication ◽  
The Social ◽  
Group Members

Intergroup communication concerns the verbal and nonverbal interaction between individuals from different groups. Since about the 1980s, the social identity perspective (including social identity, self-categorization, ethnolinguistic vitality, and communication accommodation theories) has provided much impetus to research on intergroup communication. One way to advance intergroup communication research, then, is to expand the social identity perspective. Evolutionary psychology, a research program firmly rooted in natural selection theory and its modern synthesis, can help achieve this goal. For example, a functional analysis of language acquisition suggests—and research confirms—that language (similar to sex and age but not race) is a dedicated dimension of social categorization. This is first of all because language is localized, with signal regularities (e.g., grammar, syntax) being meaningful only to in-group members. Second, there is a critical window of language acquisition that typically closes at late adolescence, and one can almost never reach native-level proficiency if the person tries to learn a language beyond that window. Thus, two people are very likely to have grown up in the same place if they speak the same language with similar high levels of proficiency. Conversely, the lack of proficiency in speaking a language suggests that one does not have the same childhood experience as others and is thus an out-group member. Because ancestral humans had recurrent exposure to people speaking different languages (or variants of the same language) even given their limited travel ability, language-based categorization appears to be an evolved part of human nature. Evolutionary theories can also help renovate research on ethnolinguistic vitality and (non)accommodation. For example, an analysis of host-parasite coevolution suggests that maintaining and using one’s own language can help reduce the risk of contracting foreign diseases in places with high parasite stress. This is because out-group members are more likely than in-group members to carry diseases that one’s physiological immune system cannot tackle. Intergroup differentiation is thus needed more in places with higher parasite stress, and language (as noted) reliably marks group membership. It thus benefits people living in parasite-laden environments to stick to their own language, which helps them remain close to in-group members and away from out-group members. Research also shows that increases in perceived parasitic threats cause people higher in pathogen disgust sensitivity to perceive speakers with foreign accents as being more dissimilar to self. This enhanced perceived dissimilarity may cause non-accommodation or divergence in intergroup communication, resulting in negative language attitudes and even intergroup conflicts. These and many other areas of research uniquely identified by evolutionary approaches to intergroup communication research await further empirical tests.

Ceroplastes rusci. [Distribution map].

1977 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Canary Islands ◽  
Host Plants ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Balearic Islands ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
New Distribution ◽  
Distribution In Europe

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Ceroplastes rusci (L.) (Hemipt., Coccoidea) (Fig Wax-scale). Host Plants: Ficus, Camellia, Citrus, holly, olives, pistachio. Information is given on the geographical distribution in EUROPE, Albania, Balearic Islands, Corsica, Crete, Dodecanese, France, Gibraltar, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Sardinia, Sicily, Spain, Yugoslavia, ASIA, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, AFRICA, Algeria, Canary Islands, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Principe, Rhodesia, Senegal, Sudan, Tunisia, Zambia, AUSTRALASIA and PACIFIC ISLANDS, SOUTH AMERICA, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay.

Macrohomotoma gladiata. [Distribution map].

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
North America ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Canary Islands ◽  
Balearic Islands ◽  
Ryukyu Archipelago ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
New Distribution ◽  
Distribution In Europe

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Macrohomotoma gladiata Kuwayama. Hemiptera: Homotomidae. Hosts: Ficus spp. Information is given on the geographical distribution in Europe (France, Italy, Mainland Italy, Sicily, Spain, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands and Mainland Spain), Asia (China, Hong Kong, Jiangsu, India, Maharashtra, Indonesia, Sumatra, Japan, Ryukyu Archipelago, Taiwan and Turkey), Africa (Algeria) and North America (USA, California).

scholarly journals Group Work Satisfaction At The University: An Innovative Experience In The New Higher Education Degrees

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 295-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raul Del Pozo-Rubio ◽  
Pablo Ruiz-Palomino ◽  
Ricardo Martinez-Canas
Keyword(s):  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Work Activity ◽  
Generic Competencies ◽  
La Mancha ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Degree Of Satisfaction ◽  
Group Members ◽  
The University

A methodology based on group work to facilitate the assimilation of the concepts and competences to be acquired by university students is presented as part of the teaching activities in second and third courses in the Business and Management Administration Degree at University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM). This methodology allows that students benefit from synergies between group members and complete the training received with one system that permits, in a better way, the achievement of a series of important generic and specific competences.The present article is aimed at assessing student satisfaction after the completion of the group work activity in terms of motivation and involvement. The authors conclude that the degree of satisfaction is acceptable and good and that the activity per se is perceived as having a close relationship to the themes of the corresponding subject. An important collaboration between group members is observed, although there are students who shirk their responsibilities fully.The study concludes that group work is a good teaching and learning tool that facilitates the acquisition of a series of important specific and generic competencies to pass the subject and at a low investment of study time.

Puccinia barbeyi. [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria].

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. F. Cannon
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Canary Islands ◽  
Host Plants ◽  
Balearic Islands

Abstract A description is provided for P. barbeyi. Information on dispersal and transmission, host plants (Asphodelus albus, A. fistulosus, A. tenuifolius and A. viscidulus), and geographical distribution (Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Canary Islands, Spain; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Pakistan; Saudi Arabia; Croatia; Greece; peninsular Italy; and peninsular and Balearic Islands, Spain) is included.

scholarly journals An Exploratory Study Of Language Attitudes Among Second Cycle Students In The New Juaben Municipality Of Ghana

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-58
Author(s):  
Ishmael Duah ◽  
Solomon Ernest Mensah
Keyword(s):  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Adolescent Male ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Language Usage ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Linguistic Behaviour ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Male Subjects ◽  
Female Subjects

This paper is concerned with the relationship between attitude and behaviour in language. Adolescent male and female subjects were recorded and index-scores of their linguistic behaviour compared to their assessment of in- group members in a verbal-guise attitude experiment, and to their attitudes concerning language usage in a questionnaire. It was hypothesized that male subjects' language would be closer to the vernacular, and that they would also express more positive attitudes towards in-group members than would female subjects. However, no significant correlation between attitude and behaviour was found in the quantitative analysis, but results from the attitude-questionnaire support our hypothesis: male subjects have more vernacular features in their language and also express more genuinely positive attitudes towards the local vernaculars than do female subjects. Finally, methodological and theoretical implications of these results are discussed, emphasizing the importance of using eclectic approaches in future research on attitude-behaviour relations in language. Keywords: Language attitudes; attitude-behaviour relations

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