Aphra Behn's (Non) Canonicity as a Restoration Playwright

Translating cultures, cultures in translation

Among its several definitions, translation can be understood as ‘a rendering from one language into another’, probably the most immediate sense, as ‘a change to a different substance, form, or appe...

Effects of dopamine in isolated rat colon strips.

The aim of the present work is to investigate the effects of dopamine on isolated rat colon strips, and whether dopamine receptors are involved in these effects. Experiments on spontaneous motility and under potassium contraction were performed with dopamine and isoprenaline, both in the absence and presence of antagonists (distal colon strips, isotonic recording, Tyrode solution, 31 °C, 1 g of resting tension). At higher concentration (10–4mol/L), dopamine abolished spontaneous motility of the rat colon and this effect was not modified by antagonists. In isolated rat colon strips that were depolarized with potassium, dopamine produced concentration-dependent relaxation, without significant…

Intercultural Communicative Competence as a Tool for Autonomous Learning

In recent years the concept of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) has started to spread in the field of foreign language teaching and learning. ICC is based on the development by the learner of several “savoirs” concerned with attitudes and values, knowledge, skills of interpreting and relating, skills of discovery and interaction and critical cultural awareness. In ICC, students become the centre of the teaching and learning process and the role of teachers should be focused on encouraging autonomous and independent learning skills in their students. En los últimos años el concepto de competencia comunicativa intercultural (CCI) ha comenzado a extenderse en el campo de la enseñan…

Terra Incognita Australis de Foigny. El descubrimiento de una nueva tierra, el desarrollo de la novela

Desde finales del siglo xv al xvii, viajeros de diferentes países europeos intentaron llegar a un continente austral desconocido, supuestamente situado en algún lugar entre las tierras africanas y americanas. Una de las narraciones más populares sobre este continente en Inglaterra a finales del siglo xvii fue A New Discovery of Terra Incognita Australis, or the Southern World, de Gabriel de Foigny, publicada en 1693 por John Dunton y, de hecho, una traducción de la versión francesa de 1692. Aunque esta obra de la novela inglesa temprana es citada por varios estudiosos, se ha realizado poco trabajo crítico sobre la versión inglesa. En consecuencia, el objetivo de este artículo es sacar a la …

Dealing with Intercultural Communicative Competence in the Foreign Language Classroom