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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 ...
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 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 ...
A needs analysis case regarding the use of English of Farming Engineering Students of the School of Agronomic Sciences of the National University of Córdoba, Argentina
(2018)
This study presents a needs analysis (NA) carried out at the School of Farming
Engineering (FCA) of the National University of Córdoba (UNC) to identify the present
and future needs of the students of the FCA in terms ...
The Effect of Genre-based Instruction on the Teaching of Business Report Writing
(2005)
The present study investigates the application of Genre Theory to the teaching of
business report writing to university students. Five instructors, three raters and five
groups of learners attending the fourth semester ...
Análisis de la adquisición de ‘Tema-Rema’ en producciones escritas por estudiantes universitarios de Gramática inglesa
(2022)
The current thesis analyzes the use of the ‘theme-rheme’ construct in the written
productions of twenty-nine third year students at Facultad de Lenguas, Universidad
Nacional de Córdoba. The study stems from the reading ...
La atribución de fuentes en la escritura académica de alumnos de grado : relevamiento de estrategias
(2017)
Academic writing has its own conventions and patterns which make it different from other types of writing. Composing academic essays and papers poses difficulties to students who need specific instruction to acquire the ...