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El uso de rasgos paralingüísticos en el discurso político : una caracterización del género discursivo
(2022)
The present work aims to characterise political speeches considering the use of a
group of paralinguistic features (PF) taken from Brown’s (1990) taxonomy (rhetorical
pause, loudness, timing of segments, tempo), and to ...
The teaching of English grammar based on the students’ age : Teachers’ and students’ cognitions and the classroom practice
(2021)
This thesis is a case study of six EFL classes in different educational settings in
Bahía Blanca, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It examines the cognitions of both
teachers and students in these classes. The general ...
La estructura retórica del resumen (abstract) en las disciplinas arte y diseño : un estudio descriptivo
(2021)
As an effective means of representing the research article, the abstract has increasingly
become an essential part of this genre. For that reason, understanding the rhetorical
conventions that govern abstract writing in ...
Contemporary American queer drama : pushing the limits to remain at the borders
(2015)
Over the past 20 years, after the American LGBT liberationist movement has managed to make new voices heard and acquired certain social conquests, partly overturning decades of exclusion and segregation, gay American drama ...
Asperger’s syndrome in Mark Haddon’s novel The curious case of the dog in the night-time and Alis Rowe’s autobiography The girl with the curly hair : different genres, different representations
(2018)
Since the end of the 19th century and throughout the 20th century, writers such as Charles Baudelaire, William Faulkner, Allen Ginsberg and Toni Morrison provided those who were considered outcasts with a voice. They ...
Brave new creatures : a comparative study of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the creatures of the new millenium
(2015)
This thesis intends to analyse Mary Shelley‘s creature in her novel Frankenstein, and how the creation of this creature may have adumbrated the birth of present creatures—clones, genomes,1 Artificial Intelligence (AI) ...
The Collaborative construction of knowledge through online forums for the development of sociocognitive writing skills
(2016)
Changes in the production, transmission and access to information generated by information and communication technologies (ICTs) require new skills and offer cognitive and social opportunities for the construction of ...
B-learning in an EFL college class : creativity, critical thinking and collaboration
(2015)
Research in educational technology is relatively new and the literature on the topic offers a variety of approaches. One of the most recent research trends aims at exploring and analyzing the phenomena that accompany the ...
The discursive construction of responsibility : strategies used by political and military witnesses in public hearings
(2013-05-03)
From the perspective of current situated discourse analysis and the associated
disciplinary strands of conversational analysis, narrative studies and critical discourse
analysis, this study examines how political and ...
The fictionalization of history and the personal stories in Obasan and Slaughterhouse-five
(2014-10-15)
The nature of history has always been studied and analyzed from different perspectives throughout the centuries. Following a postmodern position, many theorists have explored history and have questioned it critically in ...