Ana Bravo

List of John Benjamins publications for which Ana Bravo plays a role.

This paper studies the role that knowledge about formal linguistics can play in teacher education. In order to do so, this contribution focuses on specific secondary students’ errors and misconceptions when confronted with L1 explicit grammar instruction. Errors are measured with respect to a… read more
In this paper we compare L’Étranger to two Spanish translations in order to shed light on two theoretical issues. Firstly, the externalization problem (Laca, 2018): where do temporal and aspectual auxiliaries realize preferably in Sp. vs. Fr.? Are high perfects related to low perfects? Secondly,… read more
Bravo, Ana 2017 Rhetorical imperatives: Reasons to reasoningImperatives and Directive Strategies, Van Olmen, Daniël and Simone Heinold (eds.), pp. 79–110 | Chapter
Rhetorical imperatives are formal imperatives that convey an assertion of the opposite polarity. As assertions, they can be judged to be true or false. As morphological imperatives, they reject embedding and have verb-subject word order. Rhetorical imperatives involve a widening of the domain… read more