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Courtship and marriage in the work of Jane Austen
(2013)The goal of this essay is to analyze Austen’s writing — concretely Sense and Sensibility (1811) — in order to present a broad analysis of the theme of courtship and marriage in Jane Austen’s popular fiction, with a specific ... -
Women’s voices from Southern Africa : gender, class and ethnicity
(2013)The following dissertation has as its objective to provide an analysis of Nervous Conditions, a novel written by the Zimbabwean writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga. The literary analysis of this novel will be done from ... -
A study on semantic and lexical variation: examining the competition between near-synonyms
(2014)The aim of this dissertation is to examine the competition between the following nearsynonyms from a diachronic perspective: fear/terror/trepidation, guard/ward, beck/stream and napkin/serviette. For this purpose a general ... -
Age differences: a study on teenager English
(2014)This study is concerned with the use of the English language by a particular group: British teenagers. One of the aims of this study is to present how the age factor plays a crucial role in the linguistic change and how, ... -
Stephen King from Žižek’s perspective: an analysis of the problem of identity in ‘The Shining’
(2014)This paper will study the problem of identity in the novel of the American horror writer Stephen King’s The Shining. I am going to analyse this novel paying special attention to that topic, and in order to do so I will ... -
Agrammatic aphasia in English-speaking patients : a study on verb inflection and verb related forms
(2014)Agrammatism has been the object of study of different fields for centuries now. As an abnormal manifestation of language, its study can provide interesting information about language itself, its organisation and production. ... -
Ophelia : representations of death and madness
(2014)[GL]Estudo sobre as representacións na arte da loucura e morte de Ofelia, personaxe feminino de "Hamlet", de William Shakespeare -
Concession relations in argumentative discourse : the case of written reviews
(2014)This paper has considered the role of concession in the argumentative genre, specifically the role of the concessive markers but and although in written reviews of books and films. Therefore, it was necessary to examine ... -
The road in American literature and film Jack Kerouac's Legacy
(2014)The road has been an enduring icon of American history and culture from the accounts of the first settlers to present-day literature, including frontier narratives. The nation was built upon social and spatial mobility: ... -
Allen Ginsberg’s "Howl" : a literary and cultural analysis
(2014)The idea for this Bachelor thesis was born out of interest towards the literary movement of The Beat Generation in the United States of America, with special focus on the figure of Allen Ginsberg and his famous poem Howl. ... -
Gone girl : from paper to screem
(2015)The aim of this dissertation is to determine to what extent the adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl into film is successful. Because of the fact that the success of an adaptation cannot be measured according to the ... -
The adquisition of English phrasal verbs by Spanish advanced learners of English
(2015)the aim of this paper is to compare the use of PVs by Spanish nonnative speakers (NNS) and native speakers (NS). The first section will provide a review of the literature on the acquisition of English PVs by NNS paying ... -
If-clauses in English and their Spanish and French equivalents : a contrastive corpus-based study
(2015)This investigation aims to fill in this gap by providing a quantitative corpus-based analysis of if-clauses in spoken English, Spanish and French. Part I provides a review of the literature on if-clauses and their Spanish ... -
Linguistic diversity in Scotland : language distribution, social attitudes and identity
(2015)In order to understand Scotland’s current linguistic situation, it is important to comprehend the changes that the Scottish society has undergone in the past. With this purpose in mind, the following analysis has been ... -
Sherlock Holmes as a barometer of Late Victorian England
(2015-07)As social and literary critic Max Nordau (1849–1923), who was on the lookout of traces of the artist’s degeneration in literary texts, we will assume that “that individual character expresses (and thus reveals) itself most ... -
Non-standard varieties of English in local colour writing: Creole speech in Kate Chopin’s Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie
(2016)As the main focus, in order to expand our acknowledgements about this topic, we have chosen Kate Chopin, of French and Irish descent. Her heritage was an excellent starting point for us, in order to explain some curious ... -
Blending the fantastic and the realistic: an approach to Toni Morrison’s Beloved
(2016)After exploring the complex blending of supernatural and realistic narratives in Toni Morrison’s Beloved it could be argued that the conflict of Beloved’s identity is ultimately an irresolvable one and that her nature ... -
African American Vernacular English: a study of the representation of black speech in popular TV series
(2016)African American Vernacular English or AAVE is a variety of American English often spoken by African Americans in urban or Southern regions. The fact that a large number of people speak this variety has led African American ... -
First language acquisition corpora in English and their influence on other languages
(2016)This Traballo de Fin de Grao was initially conceived as an exploration on how corpora of language acquisition in English influenced (or not) corpora in other languages, namely in Spanish. The paper can be seen as having ... -
Riddles in the dark: a theoretical approach to Tolkien’s The Hobbit
(2016)The aim of this work was to reassess notions of the fairy tale genre in order to apply these to an examination of Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1937). For that purpose, the conceptions of a variety of authors, including the British ...