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A diachronic study of the conative alternation construction in english
(2017-06-05)The conative alternation is a subtype of transitivity alternation in which there is a transitive variant and an intransitive one represented with an at-construction. From a syntactic point of view, it occurs with transitive ... -
‘A Feast for the [Cold-War] Imagination’: Liminal Eastern Europe in the Writings of John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-06-06)Inspired by the well-established trope of Eastern Europe’s in-betweenness, this article uses the notion of liminality to explore the images of Eastern Europe during the Cold War in the works of three American authors: ... -
"A Journey into History: Eastern Europe as a Liminal Landscape in Joyce Carol Oates' Short Stories"
(2013-12-03)This paper approaches a selection of Joyce Carol Oates’ short stories about the post-war Eastern Europe from the perspective of liminality. In the stories, Oates takes her readers for a tour of a world that no longer exists, ... -
Abused Bodies: Magdalene Asylums and the Restitution of Fallen Women through Fiction and Popular Culture
(UMA Editorial, 2021-09)La presente tesis está dedicada al estudio de los Asilos de Magdalenas, creados durante el siglo XVII y destinados a mujeres que al encontrarse en una situación desfavorable no se adaptaban al código moral que la Iglesia ... -
Adapting Victorian Gypsies for the Screen: Ethnicity, Otherness and (In)visibility in Neo-Victorian Popular Film
(2016-09-06)This paper aims at analysing the presence of gypsy characters in two neo-Victorian popular films, namely Joe Johnston’s The Wolfman (2010) and Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows (2011). The cultural construction ... -
Adverbials and inversion in early english scientific writing
(2015-11-13)From a historical perspective, the English language shifted from being basically verb final in the Old English period (Traugott 1992: 274) to verb non-final from the Middle English period onwards (Fischer 1992: 371), that ... -
Afasia de tipo motor en inglés y en español: Estudio contrastivo de las variables lingüísticas intervinientes en la lectura
(UMA Editorial, 2017-12-14)La presente tesis doctoral es un estudio sobre el procesamiento de lectura en personas con afasia de tipo motor de habla inglesa y de habla española. El objetivo de este trabajo es demostrar que existen diferencias entre ... -
“África, India y el Océano Índico: Relaciones afroasiáticas en la literatura africana”
(2021-09)En su obra Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India and the Afrasian Imagination (2013), Gaurav Desai usa el término “imaginación afroasiática” como forma de protesta en contra del etnocentrismo que ha caracterizado al ... -
Alice Gerstenberg: figura relevante del Little Theatre Movement
(UMA Editorial, 2021-04-29)A finales del siglo XIX apareció el movimiento teatral experimental que transformó el teatro moderno europeo y estadounidense, denominado Free Theatre o Independent Theatre en Europa, y Little Theatre en los Estados Unidos. ... -
Análisis de Disfluencias y Gestos en Nativos Españoles y en Estudiantes de Español como Lengua Extranjera
(Servicio de Publicaciones y Divulgación Científica, 2015)Esta tesis se centra en el estudio de los gestos durante disfluencias, conflictos en el acto comunicativo en los que el hablante los externaliza mediante pausas, marcadores como ‘eh’ o ‘em’, interrupciones o alargamientos. ... -
Análisis lingüístico de artículos de prensa en inglés y español sobre violencia contra la mujer: el caso de Reeva Steenkamp
(UMA Editorial, 2021-02-18)La presente tesis es un estudio lingüístico de artículos periodísticos que se enmarcan dentro de la violencia contra la mujer (VCM). Nuestro estudio se realiza sobre ocho periódicos de ideologías opuestas, dos del Reino ... -
Análisis multidimensional de la escritura académica de estudiantes universitarios en inglés como lengua extranjera: variables lingüísticas y extra-lingüísticas
(Universidad de Málaga, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2012)Esta tesis analiza la escritura académica en inglés como lengua extranjera en 200 estudiantes universitarios españoles. Basada en el marco socio-constructivista, revisa cuestiones lingüísticas y extra-lingüísticas del ... -
Analysing coercion in stative progressives in the Indian variety of the International Corpus of English (ICE).
(2016-04-21)Coercion is defined as “a semantic transformation that involves shifting of one type to another” (Pustejovsky, 1991), being a prototypical case the change from state to activity represented by the use of the progressive ... -
An analysis of the hipster (sub)culture and Its reflection in HBO’s TV series girls
(2018-11-12)According to the casting call posted by Lena Dunham at Backstage.com, one feels tempted to classify the TV series Girls as a hipster show automatically. In fact, this is what its creators and producers have been trying to ... -
An Approach to (Vulner)able Women in Paula Hawkins’s Novels
(2018-11-15)The notion of vulnerability has had a very prolific role in the last years, as the term has been applied to many and varied fields of research, being contemporary literature one of them. Taking Emmanuel Lévinas’s notion ... -
Aspectos lexicográficos de la correspondencia interlingüística de términos éticos y de evaluación subjetiva
(2015-07-21)Sólo han pasado unas décadas desde que Grace Kelly enamorara al mundo occidental luciendo un práctico y estético pañuelo que protegía su peinado mientras conducía su descapotable. Y todavía sigue vigente en parte de la ... -
Assessing the Provenance of Constantinus Afrianus' Venerabilis Anatomia in London, MS Wellcome 290 (ff. 1r-41v)
(2014-10-03)MS Wellcome 290 is housed in the Wellcome Library in London. Referenced MS Wellcome 290, it is entitled Pseudo-Galen, Claudius, 131 – 201, and it comprises 56 folios of which, the last three, are blank (Moorat 1962: 186). ... -
Bodies in Transit: Re-thinking vulnerability and resistance in post-colonial neo-Victorian literature and culture
(2019-11-18)The aim of my participation in this round table is to make an approach to an analysis of contemporary historical fiction through the lens of theories of vulnerability and resistance. In particular, I would like to address ... -
Building up uniqueness within institutional, tourism-related home pages
(2016-02-01)Institutional web sites put together and display a country image which represents a “decisive business card” as stated by Bonhomme & Stalder (2006, 1). Beerli & Martin (2004, 3) detail the dimensions and attributes of the ... -
by way of vs. by means of: On the Expression of Instrumentality in Middle English and Early Modern English
(2016-04-21)Grammaticalization is defined as “a process whereby a lexical item, with full referential meaning, develops grammatical meaning” (Fischer and Rosenbach 2000: 2; see also Hopper 1991; Diewald and Wischer 2002). According ...