A corpus-based study of the phraseological behaviour of abstract nouns in medical English. A Needs Analysis of a Spanish medical community 

    Laso Martín, Natàlia Judith (Date of defense: 2009-01-23)

    It has been long acknowledged (Carter 1998, Williams 1998; Biber 2006; Hyland 2008) that writing a text not only entails the accurate selection of correct terms and grammatical constructions but also a good command of ...

    Age-related effects on the acquisition of a foreign language phonology in a formal setting 

    Fullana Rivera, Natalia (Date of defense: 2005-11-04)

    The present dissertation aims to contribute to the to date more limited findings of studies examining the factor of starting age in second language (L2) phonological learning in a formal instruction setting. Thus, its main ...

    An ideal L2 self intervention: implications for self-concept, motivation and engagement with the target language 

    Mackay, Jessica (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)

    El Sistema Motivacional del Yo L2 (L2MSS) propuesto por Dörnyei (2005, 2009a) reconceptualiza la motivación en el aprendizaje de la segunda lengua (L2) en un contexto globalizado. Basándose en las teorías de psicología ...

    Auf der Suche nach Spanien 

    Börner, Franziska (Date of defense: 2015-12-17)

    Das wissenschaftliche Interesse an der Iberischen Halbinsel hat eine lange Tradition in Deutschland. Deutsche Forscher und Gelehrte haben früh damit begonnen, Aspekten der spanischen Kultur auf den Grund zu gehen, sei es ...

    Beyond the Walls-Potentiality Aborted. The Politics of Intersubjective Universalism in Herman Melville’s Clarel 

    López Peña, Laura (Date of defense: 2013-10-18)

    This dissertation argues that Herman Melville’s Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) is a universalist poem which analyzes the necessity, political potentiality, and challenges of intersubjectivity to the ...

    Crosslinguistic influence in the acquisition of Greek as a foreign language by Spanish/Catalan L1 learners: The role of proficiency and stays abroad 

    Andria, Maria (Date of defense: 2014-11-27)

    The purpose of the present study is to investigate the influence of first language (L1) patterns on the acquisition of Greek as a foreign language (L2) by Spanish/Catalan L1 learners, as well as to determine whether L2 ...

    Das Märchenstück im zeitgenössischen Kindertheater. Die Adaption von Grimms Märchen für die Bühne 

    Auseller, Jordi (Date of defense: 2016-01-21)

    Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit dem Kinder- und Jugendtheater im deutschsprachigen Raum, genauer mit dem Theater für Kinder und Jugendliche, um einer Verwechslung des Theaters mit Kindern und Jugendlichen ...

    DeraciNation: Reading the Borderlands in the Fiction of Zoë Wicomb 

    Lytle, Cynthia (Date of defense: 2014-12-19)

    This dissertation analyzes the fiction of South African author Zoë Wicomb (1948- ) through her two collections of short stories: You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town (1987) and The One that Got Away (2008) and two novels: David’s ...

    Deterritorialising patriarchal binary oppositions: Deleuze & Guattari, Virginia Woolf, Masculinities and Film Adaptations 

    Ortega, Dolors (Date of defense: 2013-01-30)

    This thesis aims to problematise the hegemonic set of relations that has been aligned to gender and sex within the framework of binary thought when reading Woolf’s narrative of gender. Woolf’s elusive and intense style, ...

    El coloquio de los textos: E.T.A. Hoffmann y la literatura española del siglo de oro 

    Vinardell, Teresa (Date of defense: 1997-01-01)

    El presente estudio se ocupa de la recepción de Cervantes y Calderón de la Barca por parte del autor romántico E.T.A. Hoffmann, e inserta dicho proceso receptivo en un contexto epocal más amplio. Por un lado, el romanticismo ...

    El periplo de los Hávamál en los paises de habla germánica: aspectos de su recepción ecdótica, traductológica y teórico-crítica 

    García López, Inés (Date of defense: 2016-01-20)

    El objetivo de la presente tesis es realizar un estudio sistemático de la recepción de los Hávamál, un poema éddico contenido en un manuscrito islandés del siglo XIII con el código MS GkS 2365 in 4°, conocido con el nombre ...

    El sistema pronominal en inglés y castellano: análisis contrastivo 

    Muñoz Lahoz, Carme, 1955- (Date of defense: 1986-05-01)

    El interés que me movió a realizar el siguiente trabajo nació de una experiencia temprana de profesora de lengua inglesa como lengua extranjera. Esta actividad profesional dio pie a reflexiones sobre el aprendizaje de ...

    English language learning in CLIL and EFL classroom settings: a look at two primary education schools 

    Marsol Jornet, Anna (Date of defense: 2015-11-20)

    This dissertation examines the English language learning experience of primary school learners in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom settings. It focuses, on ...

    Estrategias persuasivas en los anuncios de prensa escrita alemana: desarrollo temático, ilocución e implicación emocional 

    Panadés Guerrero, Marta (Date of defense: 2013-03-22)

    El objetivo general de esta investigación se ha centrado en comprobar cómo se manifiestan los aspectos emocionales en la parte verbal de los anuncios publicitarios en prensa escrita en lengua alemana, sin la pretensión de ...

    Estudi del llenguatge en la producció teatral de Harold Pinter 

    Aragay i Sastre, Mireia (Date of defense: 1992-03-23)

    L'objecte d'estudi d'aquesta tesi sorgeix de diverses consideracions. En primer lloc, si bé les referències a l'ús del llenguatge en les obres de H. Pinter són relativament abundoses en la critica corresponent, la major ...

    Factors affecting second language communication strategies use and development 

    Montero Micharet, Lidia (Date of defense: 2015-12-18)

    The purpose of this dissertation is to contribute to the field of second language (L2) communication strategies (CS) and, particularly, to examine which factors or combinations of factors are involved in the use and ...

    From Lifewriting to postcolonising dreaming narrative: uncanny articulations of race, class and gender in the Indigenous Australian corpus 

    Renes, Cornelis Martin (Date of defense: 2010-01-28)

    [eng] This dissertation and its prequel, my minor thesis, have their seeds in a concern with a certain uncanniness embedded in multicultural developments in Western society. In his 1919 essay “The Uncanny”, Freud explains ...

    Gebrauch von gehen und kommen im Kontext: diathetische und deiktische Alternanz nach textthematischer, multimodaler und stilistischer Variation 

    Tapia Yepes, Eduard (Date of defense: 2012-03-02)

    Zusammenfassung Der Forschungsgegenstand der Dissertation ist die multidimensionale Variation bei den unakkusativischen Bewegungsverben gehen und kommen im Gebrauch. Diese Variation erfolgt nämlich auf struktureller ...

    Gender, Politics, Subjectivity: Reading Caryl Churchill. 

    Monforte, Enric (Date of defense: 2000-02-25)

    This doctoral dissertation approaches three plays written by British playwright Caryl Churchill (1938- ): <i>Cloud Nine</i> (1979), <i>Top Girls</i> (1982), and <i>Blue Heart</i> (1997). Her plays deal mainly with systems ...

    Gendering Men: Theorizing Masculinities in American Culture and Literature 

    Armengol Carrera, José María (Date of defense: 2006-06-29)

    This thesis attempts to "gender" men by theorizing masculinities in American culture and literature. It tries to demonstrate that (white heterosexual) men, like women, are also gendered beings; that they have, therefore, ...