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The main aim of the study is to ascertain contrastively, in English and Spanish, how directive speech acts are represented in film discourse. For the purpose of the investigation, the directive speech acts of 24 films, 12 in English and 12 in Spanish, were extracted and analysed. A classification taxonomy, inspired by previous research, was created in order to categorize the different types of directive speech acts and determine their level of (in)directness. The results show that indirectness is more widely represented in the English than in the Spanish film scripts, thus confirming the assertion that being indirect is a distinctive feature of English native speakers (Grundy, 2008). This research makes a valuable contribution to the exploration of speech acts in filmspeak and informs the existing local grammar descriptions of the linguistic patterns of directive speech acts.

The article reflects on the challenges and curricular innovation that faces the public accounting in Colombia, which are conditioned by the process of globalization, which has marked changes in economic, political and cultural factors that they characterize the countries participating in it. Factors such as knowledge and vocational training have become important in this dynamic, to determine an important added value. Presents a qualitative methodology, conducting a theoretical review of articles that converge at a point about higher education as responsible for forming citizens able to build a society based on knowledge sharing and the information, it must conform to a flexible curriculum as a way of transcending to interdisciplinarity, in which research, innovation and technology are important elements to convert accounting studies in training options integral to their graduates. ; El artículo reflexiona acerca de los retos e innovación curricular a los que se enfrenta la contabilidad pública en Colombia, los cuales están condicionados por el proceso de globalización, el cual ha marcado cambios en los factores económicos, políticos y culturales que caracterizan a los países que participan en él. Factores como el conocimiento y la formación profesional cobran importancia en dicha dinámica, al determinar un importante valor agregado. Presenta una metodología cualitativa, realizando una revisión teórica de artículos que convergen en su visión acerca de la educación superior como encargada de formar ciudadanos capaces de construir una sociedad basada en el uso compartido del conocimiento y la información, ello debe ajustarse a un curriculum flexible como forma de trascender hacia la interdisciplinariedad, en el que investigación, innovación y tecnología son elementos importantes para convertir los estudios de contabilidad en opciones de formación integral para sus egresados.

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Thanking, as other speech acts such as apologizing or requesting, can be performed in numerous contexts and, for their analysis, many crucial variables must be taken into consideration (eg. social distance, gender, age, etc.), which often are difficult to control. Besides these variables, speech acts are carried out in different situations, taking into account the culture in which they are performed. For example, thanking might be performed after alighting a bus in the UK, the USA or Australia, but this might not necessarily happen in Spain. The aim of the study on which this paper is based, in to explore thanking contrastively in British English and in Peninsular Spanish from a pragmatic viewpoint, by looking at specific independent variables: the context and situation in which this speech act is performed, the relationship between the interlocutors who perform it, which includes social power and distance, and the reason for expressing gratitude. For the purpose of this investigation, a corpus of 128 textbooks (64 for each language) for the learning and teaching of Spanish and English as foreign languages was used. It is important to note that, although these corpora are built on prefabricated dialogues and these can be regarded as abstractions of reality, the communicative situations found in the textbooks are aimed at depicting exchanges and linguistic patterns representing what naturally occurs in real conversations in both cultures.

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Juan de Oñate, fantasy heritage, and heritage tourism in the Southwest; Organization of the book; A Word about Terminology; Notes; 1. Fantasy heritage in southwest tourism; Tourist or visitor? Individual understandings of fantasy heritage tourism; Heritage and public memory in the Southwest; Enter Juan de Oñate as a tourism draw; El Paso's fantasy heritage: Juan de Oñate as local hero; Academics, fantasy heritage, and societal perceptions

In 1988, the El Paso, Texas, city council accepted a proposal to build twelve statues of historically important individuals as part of a downtown revitalization initiative. Juan de Oñate was selected as the centerpiece statue of the XII Travelers Memorial of the Southwest. The decision to honor the Spanish colonizer triggered a local controversy about the nature and function of public art in shaping community identity. Nonetheless, in hopes of boosting tourism, city leaders funded construction of the statue and it was installed in 2006. Using the concepts of hegemony and fantasy heritage to analyze the debate, we argue that the Oñate statue promotes the Hispanic framing of the city's history at the expense of its Mexican past and continues the historic exclusion of Chicanos from public space.