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Sexism in political discourse: a case study
(2023)It can be argued that language not only reflects gender inequalities but that it is also a key tool to perpetuate, shape and create these inequalities (Graddol & Swann, 1989, p. 9). However, in recent decades, the use of ... -
Female Attachment in Contemporary Fiction in English.
(2023)The main objective of my doctoral dissertation is the analysis of complex female characters and their relationships in a selected corpus of novels, potential choices being Mona Awad’s Bunny (2019), Eliza Clark’s Boy Parts ... -
Tools for organisation and time management in your research.
(2023)At first glance, time management is an easy task, yet on many occasions we all fail to manage time effectively and make the most of it. As PhD candidates ourselves, we have tried -and failed- to control the amount of time ... -
A Specific Guide to the PhD Dissertation VIVA
Martín-González, Juan José
(2023-06-22)
The day of your VIVA is probably one of the most important and stressful days in the life of a PhD student. Students are often assaulted by manifold questions: “how will it work?” “Who will be there?”, “how will I feel?”, ... -
Women’s Bodies and Emotions: Desertion, Illegitimacy and the Cambridge Union Workhouse in the late Victorian period.
Romero-Ruiz, María Isabel (2023)
Cambridge Union Workhouse was built a mile away from the city, surrounded by fields to avoid any interference with members of the University or with commercial life. The site was located at 81A, Milton Road, quite close ... -
The emotional impact of videogames and poetry.
(2023)When we are moved by a story, what affected us so? My doctoral project explores this question to better understand how stories convey emotion and move its audience. Inspired by the renewed scholarly interest in emotions ... -
Mapping of political events related to the COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter using topic modelling and keywords over time.
This research aims to study the relationship between actual, real-world events related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact these events produced on social media. To achieve this objective, we employ topic modelling and ... -
The Málaga Corpus of Late Modern English Scientific Prose
Calle-Martín, Javier (2023-05-11)
The Málaga Corpus of Early English Scientific Prose is a collection of English vernacular medical writing, consisting of three diachronically divided components, i.e. The Málaga Corpus of Late Middle English Scientific ... -
Towards an annotation schema of financial discourse based on functional discourse analysis
(2023-05-12)The aim of this presentation is to explore the structure of economic opinion news texts and its implications for sentiment analysis. The Lingmotif sentiment analysis tool has achieved great results in detecting polarity ... -
Narratology in Early Modern Medical Manuscripts: The Case of London, Wellcome Library, MS 213.
Esteban-Segura, María Laura (2023)
It has been argued that narrative elements can be found throughout the history of English scientific writing. Narratives can be linked to specific genres; thus, learned texts for medical doctors were different from those ... -
‘Remedies to cure the diseases or ill-affections of the Eares, Eies, Nose and Mouthe.’ Punctuation in London, Wellcome Library, MS. 676.
(2023)Punctuation is an essential component of the written text, due to their shared history these two elements are bound (Parkes 1992, 1). Both modern and medieval punctuation are essentially of a syntactic structure, marking ... -
Strategies for the analysis of large social media corpora: sampling and keyword extraction methods
Moreno-Ortiz, Antonio Jesús; García-Gámez, María (Springer, 2023)
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, social media platforms such as Twitter have been of great importance for users to exchange news, ideas, and perceptions. Researchers from fields such as discourse analysis and the ... -
“[I]t was a cost priced into living in America:” Exploring normalization of selective social privilege and economic inequality in Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success (2018)
Bryla, Martyna Marika (2023)
This paper argues that Gary Shteyngart uses his protagonist's privileged position as a departure point for exploring the ongoing corruption of the formative narrative of the US identity, the American Dream, in contemporary ... -
Phonological Capacities of Jordanian EFL Teachers: Insight on Training Needs and Impact on Instruction
(UMA Editorial, 2023-03-30)The objective of the study was to further understand the situation of teaching English pronunciation in Jordanian classrooms as it has a major impact on speaking skills of students and affects their employability in the ... -
Desde el sillón a la escena. Un método para la crítica de traducciones teatrales aplicado a Lorenzaccio de Alfred de Musset
(UMA Editorial, 2023-01)En el campo de la traducción de teatro encontramos teorías contrapuestas, además de una terminología poco precisa. Por el contrario, respecto a la crítica de la traducción, existe una profusión de criterios de evaluación ... -
“A Return and Re-reading of Domestic Fiction (Ab)Normalcy: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Literary Dwellings”
(2023)Nineteenth-Century literature written by women has traditionally been associated to the domestic space, as the labels that have applied to it perfectly demonstrate. Among them, “domestic fiction” has stood out (Nina Baym). ... -
Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanism(s) in Adulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea (2001)
Martin-Gonzalez, Juan Jose (2022-11)
The recent Nobel Prize winner for literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah, is considered one of the most distinguished chroniclers of the Indian Ocean.That is the case of By the Sea (2001), an epic narrative criss-crossing three ... -
Explorando de la obra espiritista de Amalia Domingo Soler desde la lectura distante: arcos emocionales mediante análisis de sentimiento
(2022)Amalia Domingo Soler (1835-1909) fue una escritora perteneciente al movimiento espiritista y una influyente librepensadora, feminista, editora y agitadora cultural, cuya prolífica obra literaria de cinco décadas (Correa ... -
Riots, Foster Homes and a Royal Wedding: The Unequal Allocation of Vulnerability in Kit de Waal's My Name Is Leon
Kit de Waal’s debut novel, My Name Is Leon (2016), was an instant success. Both critics and readers praised de Waal’s ability to capture the social complexities of Britain in the 1980s, a moment largely marked both by the ... -
Agency and Interactivity in the Narrative Video Game 'What Remains of Edith Finch'; Exploring Rita Felski's
(2022)In Hooked: Art and Attachment (2020), Rita Felski argues for the analysis of attachment to works of art, included that of the scholar’s towards the object of study. Although researchers in areas such as feminist or race ...