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    Variación terminológica y canal de comunicación. Estudio contrastivo de textos especializados escritos y orales sobre lingüística 

    Seghezzi, Natalia (Date of defense: 2011-10-27)

    En la presente tesis, enmarcada en la Teoría comunicativa de la terminología (Cabré 1999), se aborda el estudio de un tipo de variación terminológica concreto, la variación denominativa, en relación con el canal de ...

    Variación terminológica y cognición: factores cognitivos en la denominación del concepto especializado 

    Fernández Silva, Sabela (Date of defense: 2011-02-14)

    En esta tesis se lleva a cabo un estudio cognitivo de la variación denominativa. El estudio parte de la hipótesis de que la proyección de un concepto especializado en varios sentidos en los textos no es aleatoria, sino que ...

    Verb meaning and combinatory semantics: a corpus based study of Spanish change of state verbs 

    Spalek, Alexandra Anna (Date of defense: 2014-05-20)

    Even though it is an intuitive and perhaps obvious idea that composition leads to non-trivial semantic interactions between words, and these interactions affect the contents of predication, there has still been little ...

    Vocabulary acquisition in study abroad and formal instruction: an investigation on oral and written lexical development 

    Zaytseva, Victoria (Date of defense: 2016-07-01)

    The present study investigates the impact of two different consecutive learning contexts, formal instruction (FI) at home and a 3-month stay abroad (SA), on second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition in oral and written ...

    Wh-questions in Catalan sign language 

    Alba de la Torre, Celia (Date of defense: 2016-01-26)

    This dissertation offers a characterization and an analysis of wh-questions in Catalan Sign Language, which show the particularity of placing wh-expressions canonically in sentence final position. This feature, specific ...

    Writer-reader relationship and technicality of vocabulary in multilingual health information websites in English, Spanish, and Catalan 

    Hochberg, Amy Dara (Date of defense: 2023-10-02)

    The purpose of the thesis is to investigate multilingual health information websites in English, Spanish, and Catalan for comprehensibility and cultural adaptation in terms of language. This study questions whether there ...

    Writing development in a study abroad context 

    Barquin, Elisa Leslie (Date of defense: 2012-10-29)

    While study abroad at the university level has been shown to benefit many aspects of second language proficiency, little is known about how this affects participants’ writing skills. The present study explores ...