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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 ...
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 ...
Los artículos de revisión en inglés en el ámbito de las ciencias de la salud : un esquema retórico ejemplar
(2016)
Since the appearance of Swales’ (1981, 1990) CARS model of analysis, there has been a great interest in untangling the way in which information is organized in research-process papers. In the latest years, a great number ...
Zooming in on conceptions and ideas about English and Spanish in an ethnically indigenous school context
(2019)
Drawing on linguistic anthropology and the related research traditions of interactional
sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, this study aims on the one hand, at unveiling and
questioning the ideas about English, ...
Parodic metafiction : an approach to self-reflexive fiction in two works by John Barth
(2015)
The present study aims at elaborating on the connection between two concepts in
the field of literary studies, namely metafiction and parody, alongside other related
notions, such as the function of irony as a rhetorical ...
Representaciones patriarcales presentes en los siglos XIX y XXI : la perpetuidad del sistema patriarcal
(2014)
The cinema is an important part of people’s everyday lives, and it contributes to influence our perception of the world and of ourselves as subjects. A vast amount of research has been made on gender representations in the ...
The expression of motion in English and Spanish narratives: how systemic functional linguistics can enrich the findings of cognitive linguistics
(2018)
One of the most noticeable aspects in which English and Spanish are typologically different is the way in which they construe meanings of motion, especially when there is a trajectory implied. While English lexicalizes ...