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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"PC Romance languages"”.
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Touching the hero: bodies, boundaries and blood in the Old French Cycle des Narbonnais
The poems of the Old French Cycle des Narbonnais are highly concerned with touch, paying close attention to who touches whom first in greetings, who is authorised to perform certain symbolic touches and, reading violence as a radical version of touch, whose touch is victorious in battle. Modern …
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Mimesis: Figure di realismo e postrealismo dantesco nell’opera di Pier Paolo Pasolini
Questa tesi mette a fuoco la ricezione del modello linguistico e stilistico di mimesis dantesca in Pasolini. Costituisce parte di un più ampio discorso sulla rappresentazione culturale che a partire da alcune sue opere teoretiche e creative particolarmente significative intende problematizzare il …
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Doing Italian as a Foreign Language: investigating talk about language and culture in three British university classrooms
The study presented in this thesis focuses on teacher-student talk-in-interaction in three Italian classes for beginners taught by two teachers, one British and one Italian, in two British universities. The aims of the study are to: (1) investigate the views of language and of language …
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Applications of relevance theory to the description of Galician and Spanish and to translation
The published work submitted herewith involves the application of Relevance theory (as a theory of verbal communication) to the description of Galician and Spanish, and to translation. The phenomena studied within these areas are examined from the point of view of language use. This allows us to …
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A comparative study of the effects of processing instruction and output-based instruction on the acquisition of Italian future tense
The present study was carried out to investigate the possible effects of two types of form-focused instruction (henceforth FFI) on the acquisition of a specific feature of the Italian verbal morphology system: namely the future tense, which has hitherto never been researched within this framework. …
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A Lexical Functional Grammar Account of Spanish Weak Dative Pronominals
… elements-generally labelled as clitics- in many languages have been focus of much research in Linguistics. The present study, however, abstracts away from classic approaches that had the external form of clitics as their main focus and provides description and analysis of very specific uses of …
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The acquisition of French morpho-syntactic properties: Cross-linguistic Influence in the Learning of L3 French by Turkish/Spanish speakers who learned English as an L2
… influence (CLI) among the previously acquired languages (i.e. L1 and L2) in the learning of an L3. In the domain of morpho-syntax, three competing hypotheses have emerged: one attributes a primary role to the L1 as the source of CLI (Jin, 2009; Hermas, 2014); a second proposes the L2 as the …
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‘Alma diva leggiadra Simonetta’: culture and politics in literary representations of Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci
This thesis examines literary representations of the noblewoman Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci (c. 1453- 1476) written in the Florentine vernacular in the mid- 1470s and 1480s. Composed during the reign of Lorenzo de’ Medici, de facto ruler of Florence from 1469- 1492, these portrayals of Simonetta, …
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A corpus-driven discourse analysis of transcripts of Hugo Chávez’s television programme ‘Aló Presidente’
This study proposes a methodology that combines techniques from corpus linguistics with theory from the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The methodology is demonstrated using a corpus comprising transcripts of Hugo Chávez’s television programme, Aló …
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Dantean reverberations: four readers of Dante in the Twentieth century: a study on the Dantes of Primo Levi, Edoardo Sanguineti, Samuel Beckett, and Seamus Heaney
The purpose of the present research is to investigate the presence of Dante in four authors of the twentieth century and to discuss in what ways these authors contribute to our perception of Dante. This study begins with the analysis of Primo Levi’s reaction to Dante, and the first two chapters …
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The Spanish Civil war in contemporary Spanish fiction: Soldados de Salamina, La Mula and Los Girasoles Ciegos
This dissertation is looking at the representation of the Civil War in three significant texts: Soldados de Salamina, La mula and Los girasoles ciegos. Approaching this representation is important since it is part of a controversial contemporary revival of the interest in the Civil War. Politics …
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Essai de lecture «democratique» des representations culturelles des grands ensembles francais: une «archive» de la Cite des Quatre-Mille a La Courneuve (1962-2002)
Cette thèse s’assigne comme objectif d’examiner l’évolution des évocations culturelles et théoriques des grands ensembles français entre les années 1960 et 2000. Notre recherche s’articule autour de la Cité des Quatre-Mille de La Courneuve. Prenant en compte les productions journalistiques …
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An investigation into subtitling in French and Spanish heritage cinema
This thesis examines subtitles written for heritage films from France and Spain, using six films as case studies. Beginning by offering an overview of the history of subtitling, bringing together a range of different accounts of the field, it aims to situate current approaches to subtitling in …
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A sociolinguistic study of language use and identity amongst Galician young adults
The following is a sociolinguistic study carried out in 2009 in a region with a particular linguistic background, Galicia, in northern Spain. The study examines the relationship between language and identity amongst Galician students and recent graduates aged 18 to 25 years, looking specifically at …
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Poetical vocabulary in Dante's Commedia: imitation, emulation, superseding and redemption of the classics
Dante’s relationship with his classical models has interested many scholars over the decades, especially because of the numerous references to classical literature in the Commedia, which suggest a profound knowledge of the auctores despite the little evidence for Dante’s actual education. Previous …