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Address Terms in American Soap Operas. A Corpus-based Study
(2019-03-11)The purpose of this project is the study of vocatives, more particularly, familiarizers in the language used by speakers in American soap operas. By the term familiarized as is “Hey, man, what are you doing?”, “You are so ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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. ... -
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. ... -
An analysis of the translation procedures in the Spanish version of 'BoJack Horseman'
(2019-07)The process of translating words from one language into another is a difficult one, and the professionals who are in charge of doing so face plenty of situations where they have to decide what would work better in the ... -
An Ecocritical Analysis of Wide Sargasso Sea
(2019-07)The main purpose of this study is to analyze, from an ecocritical point of view, how the different ecocultures of Antoinette and her husband, the main characters of Jean Rhys’ 1996 novel ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’, affect their ... -
Approaching discourse markers in present-day english. A corpus-based study
(2018)The main aim of this work is the study of discourse or pragmatic markers in present-day written and spoken English by means of a corpus-based methodology which will allow me to analyse data extracted from two main ... -
Art, Nature and Women in Sara Baume’s "A Line Made by Walking"
(2018-11)Sara Baume is probably one of the most promising contemporary irish writers. She is a recent instance of irish women's brilliant contribution to the history of Irish literature. Baume has already published two acclaimed ... -
Aspects of Jamaican patois through the lyrics of dancehall music
(2018-10-26)The aim of this study is to provide an introductory approach to Jamaican patois and its main characteristics. According to the “Cambridge Dictionary”, ‘patois’ refers to “the form of a language spoken by people in a ... -
Black Women in Alice Walker´s "The Color Purple"
(2018-11-07)Alice Walker is an American novelist, poet, and activist whose literary production is popular because of her treatment of African-American culture. Her novels are mainly focused on women and the most popular of all them ... -
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 ... -
Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Fears and Anxieties in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle
(2022)Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) is a Gothic novel published at the turn of the twentieth century, as interstitial moment known as fin-de siècle and characterized by new cultural, social, industrial and scientific changes that ... -
“By Order of the Peaky Blinders”: A Comparative Analysis of the Real and Fictional Birmingham Gang
(2018-11-05)The fact that we are living in a golden age of the TV series cannot be overlooked. Almost one hundred new shows per year are being released and more than three hundred and fifty are still broadcasting. Among them, productions ... -
By Women, For Women: Feminist Visions of Utopia in North American Literature (1848-1920)
(2019-10-20)The aim of this dissertation is to examine the literary and ideological repercussions present in North American feminist novels which depict matriarchal or single-sex societies such Annie Denton Cridge’s Man’s Rights; or, ... -
Champion of tolerance or inveterate bigot?: a Study of Atticus Finch in Harper Lee´s To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman
(2018-10-30)To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman are the only novels written by the acclaimed American writer Harper Lee. Mockingbird, one of the most important novels in modern American literature, was published in 1960. On ... -
Changes in the morphological system from Old to Middle English, with special reference to the noun phrase
(2019-07)The aim of this dissertation is to show how English language has changed over time in one particular grammatical domain: the noun phrase, focusing on the morphological changes that affected nouns, adjectives and demonstratives ... -
Circa regna tonat: Political Anxiety, Censorship and Textual Strategies in the Literature of Henry VIII’s Reign
(2018-10-25)In spite of the humanistic shift that England underwent in the Early Modern period, the production of literature throughout the reign of Henry VIII (1509-1547) was extremely dependent on the political and religious scenario, ... -
Comparison between "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland", by Lewis Carroll, and the videogame "Alice: Madness Returns"
(2019)The main topic of my final grade project will be a comparison between tha classic "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865) writting by the English writer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better know as Lewis Carroll, and the ... -
A comparison between British English and American English, with special emphasis on collective nouns
(2019-06)This dissertation, entitled "A comparison between British English and American English, with special emphasis on collective nouns" deals, as the title describes, with a comparison between British English and American ...