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Although narratives and particularly personal narratives have been widely investigated, their use in academic lectures has received comparatively little attention. This study focuses on the narratives employed in 20 university lectures of 4 different academic disciplines using two corpora: the MICASE (Michigan Corpus of Spoken Academic English) from the University of Michigan, and a corpus recorded in several British universities. This paper reveals important results about the use of narratives in lectures, especially related to the narrative types and their connection with the lecture content, the narrative function, how narratives embed in the lecturer's discourse, and the structure of the narrative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study is a contrastive analysis of two translations into Spanish and Catalan of a children's book in English. A multidisciplinary approach adopted to analyse both preliminary norms (external agents to the text), and operational norms (about the text). The study reveals deviations from the original which may help to build the characters' identify differently in the three books. Furthermore, it is foreseen that the perception of the story will be also different in the three languages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]