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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 ...
Trematodoses
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico, 2010)
A formación que os alumnos adquiren sobre a disciplina de Enfermidades parasitarias achega ao profesional veterinario un amplo coñecemento sobre as causas, natureza, mecanismos de transmisión, acción patóxena,
diagnose, ...
Wh-relative clauses in English and their Spanish and German equivalents. A preliminary study
(2016)
In this study I will investigate wh-relatives in English, Spanish and German, paying particular attention to the prepositional type, which has so far been relatively underexplored. Taking English wh-relatives as tertium ...
El arbitraje de inversiones. Especial referencia al CETA
(2018)
En este trabajo abordaremos el análisis jurídico del arbitraje de inversiones como medio para solución de las controversias relativas a inversiones extranjeras, y de manera específica la regulación de este en el CETA. Para ...
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 ...
Make America Great Again: American identity through its texts
(2018-11-06)
The interest on this topic comes from a personal experience. While I was living in Arkansas,
Donald Trump was elected as the 45th President of the United States. The recurrent slogan through his campaign, Make America ...
Selkies, Mermaids, and Other Human-Animal Merfolk in Contemporary Irish Poetry
(2018-11-06)
From its very beggining, Irish Literature has been very connected to the ocean. Mythological creatures such as selkies, mermaids and what is known as merfolk in general, have constitued a crucial part of Irish folk tradition. ...
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 ...
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 ...