José Igor Prieto Arranz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3537425 |
|---|---|
| NAME | José Igor Prieto Arranz |
| GIVEN NAMES | José Igor Prieto |
| FAMILY NAME | Arranz |
| SIGNATURE | ARRANZ J I P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de les Illes Balears |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3732-292X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Feminist Historical Fiction or Commercial Entertainment? (In)authenticity in Philippa Gregory’s Portrayal of Catherine of Aragon
Philippa Gregory claims to be a “feminist, radical historian” (Ágútsdóttir 2015, 144) who re-examines patriarchal historical discourse. This article explores Gregory’s representation of Catherine of Aragon, placing Gregory within Britain’s historical novel tradition and arguing for a joint analysis of three novels—The Constant Princess (2005), The King’s Curse (2014) and Three Sisters, Three Queens (2016). Informed by Carr’s model of feminist emp…
Beyond Brex(L)it
On strangers sleuthing and flâneurs reading. The subversive power of C. J. Sansom’s historical crime fiction
This article provides an analysis of C. J. Sansom’s Matthew Shardlake novels (2003–2018), considering the fact that both crime and historical fiction may be used to reconceptualise collective memory in subversive ways, and with important implications for both genres. I will attempt to demonstrate that Sansom’s narrative illustrates the shift in recent crime fiction from the crime itself to the historical conditions of its setting. As a result, He…
La extraña ignorada
La novela histórica, enormemente influyente hoy en día, suele ambientarse en períodos identificados como fundacionales por la historiografía (reforzando así discursos de identidad nacional o deconstruyéndolos) y ha sido usada especialmente por escritoras para revisar el discurso histórico patriarcal, reivindicando la figura de la mujer. Este artículo ofrece un estudio comparativo de las representaciones de Catalina de Aragón en la ficción contemp…
Open Your Mind, Sharpen Your Wits”
This article provides qualitative information chronicling the study-abroad experiences of eight Erasmus+ students. Data were obtained from the analysis of focus-group discussions, e-journal narratives, plus background and language contact questionnaires. Combined, such data illustrate the participants’ discursive positions on their socialisation patterns and the impact of Erasmus+ on their overall L2 selves, identity and transcultural competence,…
A Transcultural Approach to EIL Teaching and its Impact on Learners’ National Identities
This article reports on an initiative characterised by a transcultural approach to English Language Teaching (ELT) which may be seen as an instance of Internationalisation at Home (IAH). Participants were ninety-five learners of English from three secondary schools in Spain and Poland who stayed in touch throughout the project through Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC). The article explores the impact of this particular IAH experience on the p…
The Perception of Romanian Immigrants in Spain
This article discusses Romanian immigration in Spain by focusing on the role the media play in society-making in the light of the three television spots released as part of the multi-media Hola, soy rumano campaign, commissioned by the Romanian Government to improve the image of Romanian immigrants among Spanish nationals. Informed by Gane’s reading of Lyotardian theory and Couldry’s conception of media reception, the semiotic analysis of the spo…
The British working class on holiday
Informed by the thesis that media representations are influential channels for the birth and reinforcement of discursive constructions, this article will focus on representation in ITV's successful sitcom Benidorm (2007–). The corpus analysed includes the show's first four seasons and 2009 special, which are all the Benidorm materials available on DVD at the time of writing. Given this TV production's subject matter, insights will be provided int…
Re-imagining cultural identity
The rise of English as an international language (EIL) has brought to light the needs of those who speak it as an additional language. This has in turn radically reshaped the role of culture in the EIL classroom, which may now aim at developing critical transcultural awareness. By reporting on a joint initiative undertaken by three schools in two countries, the ‘EIL in Poland and Spain’ blog project, this article explores how a transcultural curr…
The Semiotics of Performance and Success in Madonna
Rural, White and Straight. The ETC's Vision of England
The standard image of England has been traditionally dominated by bucolic, semi-rural, quintessentially southern Englishness. This paper examines England's current tourist promotional materials only to confirm that these largely conform to the above-mentioned traditional image. However, it also goes further to analyse sexuality and race issues which, we shall argue, lie at the heart of not only Englishness itself but also the difference between t…
Selling an/other Wales. A deconstructive approach
As opposed to the Welsh tourist materials addressing a British readership, which excel in creating a gratifyingly dissimilar although mainly anglicised image of Wales The present work will focus on the latter in order to analyze the strategies used by the Wales Tourist Board to appeal to the international visitor. Following Halliday (1994) and
BTA's Cool Britannia
This work provides an insight into the image of Britain resulting from the discourse of British tourist promotion as reflected in materials published by the British Tourist Authority, now officially renamed VisitBritain. Our analysis will lead us to state that a new image of the country -Cool Britanniahas been increasingly featured in BTA materials since the late 1990s, coinciding with the New Labour period in office. It will be argued that this …
Two Markets, Two Scotlands? Gender and Race in STB's 'Othered' Scottishness
The aim of the present work is to study the visual representation of hosts and guests in Scottish tourist brochures, paying special attention to questions of both gender and race, in order to discuss how such representations may relate to the notions of Scottishness and, ultimately, Britishness. Evidence will be provided of the use of what might be referred to as 'ethnic nationalism' on the part of some promotional materials. Moreover, all materi…
Forgiven, not Forgotten
Although frequently discarded and despised in the 20th century, translation now seems to find wider acceptance within the Second Language Teaching (SLT) field. However, it still has a long way to go before recovering its due place in the L2 classroom. The aim of this paper is to suggest a number of translation (and interpreting)-based activities covering the different competence levels, thus showing that communicative content and translation can …
Unothering Wales. Domestication as a tourist marketing strategy
Tourists in Wales are overwhelmingly British and its national tourist organisation, Wales Tourist Board, although certainly attempting to widen its share of foreign visitors, does pay special attention to those promotional materials designed to target the domestic British readership. Such awardwinning materials will be analysed in the present work, which places special emphasis on their two main features: on the one hand, their embedded intertext…
Liaison interpreting in the ELF classroom
Leaving aside old prejudices against the use of translation in foreign language teaching, the new integrative approaches show how translation (and interpreting)-based activities can also potentially fall into the communicative task category. Liaison interpreting is one such and it is our aim in this paper to investigate how it works with a group of 4th year English Philology students at the University of Oviedo. Results being clearly positive, an…
Re-imagining cultural identity
The rise of English as an international language (EIL) has brought to light the needs of those who speak it as an additional language. This has in turn radically reshaped the role of culture in the EIL classroom, which may now aim at developing critical transcultural awareness. By reporting on a joint initiative undertaken by three schools in two countries, the ‘EIL in Poland and Spain’ blog project, this article explores how a transcultural curr…
Rural, White and Straight. The ETC's Vision of England
The standard image of England has been traditionally dominated by bucolic, semi-rural, quintessentially southern Englishness. This paper examines England's current tourist promotional materials only to confirm that these largely conform to the above-mentioned traditional image. However, it also goes further to analyse sexuality and race issues which, we shall argue, lie at the heart of not only Englishness itself but also the difference between t…
Open Your Mind, Sharpen Your Wits”
This article provides qualitative information chronicling the study-abroad experiences of eight Erasmus+ students. Data were obtained from the analysis of focus-group discussions, e-journal narratives, plus background and language contact questionnaires. Combined, such data illustrate the participants’ discursive positions on their socialisation patterns and the impact of Erasmus+ on their overall L2 selves, identity and transcultural competence,…
The Perception of Romanian Immigrants in Spain
This article discusses Romanian immigration in Spain by focusing on the role the media play in society-making in the light of the three television spots released as part of the multi-media Hola, soy rumano campaign, commissioned by the Romanian Government to improve the image of Romanian immigrants among Spanish nationals. Informed by Gane’s reading of Lyotardian theory and Couldry’s conception of media reception, the semiotic analysis of the spo…
The Semiotics of Performance and Success in Madonna
Two Markets, Two Scotlands? Gender and Race in STB's 'Othered' Scottishness
The aim of the present work is to study the visual representation of hosts and guests in Scottish tourist brochures, paying special attention to questions of both gender and race, in order to discuss how such representations may relate to the notions of Scottishness and, ultimately, Britishness. Evidence will be provided of the use of what might be referred to as 'ethnic nationalism' on the part of some promotional materials. Moreover, all materi…
Liaison interpreting in the ELF classroom
Leaving aside old prejudices against the use of translation in foreign language teaching, the new integrative approaches show how translation (and interpreting)-based activities can also potentially fall into the communicative task category. Liaison interpreting is one such and it is our aim in this paper to investigate how it works with a group of 4th year English Philology students at the University of Oviedo. Results being clearly positive, an…
Two Markets, Two Scotlands? Gender and Race in STB's 'Othered' Scottishness
The aim of the present work is to study the visual representation of hosts and guests in Scottish tourist brochures, paying special attention to questions of both gender and race, in order to discuss how such representations may relate to the notions of Scottishness and, ultimately, Britishness. Evidence will be provided of the use of what might be referred to as 'ethnic nationalism' on the part of some promotional materials. Moreover, all materi…
Forgiven, not Forgotten
Although frequently discarded and despised in the 20th century, translation now seems to find wider acceptance within the Second Language Teaching (SLT) field. However, it still has a long way to go before recovering its due place in the L2 classroom. The aim of this paper is to suggest a number of translation (and interpreting)-based activities covering the different competence levels, thus showing that communicative content and translation can …
Unothering Wales. Domestication as a tourist marketing strategy
Tourists in Wales are overwhelmingly British and its national tourist organisation, Wales Tourist Board, although certainly attempting to widen its share of foreign visitors, does pay special attention to those promotional materials designed to target the domestic British readership. Such awardwinning materials will be analysed in the present work, which places special emphasis on their two main features: on the one hand, their embedded intertext…
Rural, White and Straight. The ETC's Vision of England
The standard image of England has been traditionally dominated by bucolic, semi-rural, quintessentially southern Englishness. This paper examines England's current tourist promotional materials only to confirm that these largely conform to the above-mentioned traditional image. However, it also goes further to analyse sexuality and race issues which, we shall argue, lie at the heart of not only Englishness itself but also the difference between t…
Selling an/other Wales. A deconstructive approach
As opposed to the Welsh tourist materials addressing a British readership, which excel in creating a gratifyingly dissimilar although mainly anglicised image of Wales The present work will focus on the latter in order to analyze the strategies used by the Wales Tourist Board to appeal to the international visitor. Following Halliday (1994) and
BTA's Cool Britannia
This work provides an insight into the image of Britain resulting from the discourse of British tourist promotion as reflected in materials published by the British Tourist Authority, now officially renamed VisitBritain. Our analysis will lead us to state that a new image of the country -Cool Britanniahas been increasingly featured in BTA materials since the late 1990s, coinciding with the New Labour period in office. It will be argued that this …
The Semiotics of Performance and Success in Madonna
Re-imagining cultural identity
The rise of English as an international language (EIL) has brought to light the needs of those who speak it as an additional language. This has in turn radically reshaped the role of culture in the EIL classroom, which may now aim at developing critical transcultural awareness. By reporting on a joint initiative undertaken by three schools in two countries, the ‘EIL in Poland and Spain’ blog project, this article explores how a transcultural curr…
The British working class on holiday
Informed by the thesis that media representations are influential channels for the birth and reinforcement of discursive constructions, this article will focus on representation in ITV's successful sitcom Benidorm (2007–). The corpus analysed includes the show's first four seasons and 2009 special, which are all the Benidorm materials available on DVD at the time of writing. Given this TV production's subject matter, insights will be provided int…
The Perception of Romanian Immigrants in Spain
This article discusses Romanian immigration in Spain by focusing on the role the media play in society-making in the light of the three television spots released as part of the multi-media Hola, soy rumano campaign, commissioned by the Romanian Government to improve the image of Romanian immigrants among Spanish nationals. Informed by Gane’s reading of Lyotardian theory and Couldry’s conception of media reception, the semiotic analysis of the spo…
A Transcultural Approach to EIL Teaching and its Impact on Learners’ National Identities
This article reports on an initiative characterised by a transcultural approach to English Language Teaching (ELT) which may be seen as an instance of Internationalisation at Home (IAH). Participants were ninety-five learners of English from three secondary schools in Spain and Poland who stayed in touch throughout the project through Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC). The article explores the impact of this particular IAH experience on the p…
Open Your Mind, Sharpen Your Wits”
This article provides qualitative information chronicling the study-abroad experiences of eight Erasmus+ students. Data were obtained from the analysis of focus-group discussions, e-journal narratives, plus background and language contact questionnaires. Combined, such data illustrate the participants’ discursive positions on their socialisation patterns and the impact of Erasmus+ on their overall L2 selves, identity and transcultural competence,…
La extraña ignorada
La novela histórica, enormemente influyente hoy en día, suele ambientarse en períodos identificados como fundacionales por la historiografía (reforzando así discursos de identidad nacional o deconstruyéndolos) y ha sido usada especialmente por escritoras para revisar el discurso histórico patriarcal, reivindicando la figura de la mujer. Este artículo ofrece un estudio comparativo de las representaciones de Catalina de Aragón en la ficción contemp…
On strangers sleuthing and flâneurs reading. The subversive power of C. J. Sansom’s historical crime fiction
This article provides an analysis of C. J. Sansom’s Matthew Shardlake novels (2003–2018), considering the fact that both crime and historical fiction may be used to reconceptualise collective memory in subversive ways, and with important implications for both genres. I will attempt to demonstrate that Sansom’s narrative illustrates the shift in recent crime fiction from the crime itself to the historical conditions of its setting. As a result, He…
Feminist Historical Fiction or Commercial Entertainment? (In)authenticity in Philippa Gregory’s Portrayal of Catherine of Aragon
Philippa Gregory claims to be a “feminist, radical historian” (Ágútsdóttir 2015, 144) who re-examines patriarchal historical discourse. This article explores Gregory’s representation of Catherine of Aragon, placing Gregory within Britain’s historical novel tradition and arguing for a joint analysis of three novels—The Constant Princess (2005), The King’s Curse (2014) and Three Sisters, Three Queens (2016). Informed by Carr’s model of feminist emp…
Beyond Brex(L)it
Sociology (11 works) · Art (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works)