Leksawat, Animmarn (Date of defense: 2023-01-16)
This thesis investigates the complexities of the fansubbing of Thai TV series into Spanish as a representative case of two underexplored areas in Translation Studies: non-professional translation and ...
Vilà-Giménez, Ingrid (Date of defense: 2020-06-30)
Co-speech gestures are children’s first path towards communication. Further in development, research has primarily focused on the role of iconic gestures in boosting children’s narrative abilities, ...
Pastena, Andreana (Date of defense: 2022-04-08)
With a social interaction perspective, this research investigates the development of Transcultural Competence in a multi-dimensionally internationalized university classroom. Adopting a mixed-method ...
Arenare, Giovanna (Date of defense: 2022-12-22)
Pur nel vastissimo corpus di studi condotti in un trentennio di ricerca sull’intercomprensione (IC), poca attenzione è stata ancora dedicata alla sua apertura extra-familiare — nel nostro caso dalle ...
Veiga Busto, Raquel (Date of defense: 2022-01-14)
Languages use different resources to specify the numerosity of the referents and to denote the speech act participants. This thesis describes the morphophonological strategies used in Catalan Sign ...
Soberats, Clara (Date of defense: 2023-09-26)
Meaning in any naturalistic utterance has a dual aspect: one is lexical-semantic memory, which enters into utterances in the form of words that we remember and retrieve; the other is the specific kind ...
Zhang, Yuan (Date of defense: 2023-03-27)
In the last decades, a growing number of studies have investigated the relationship between two unique abilities of humankind, music and language. Music and language share important structural similarities ...
Pronina, Mariia (Date of defense: 2022-05-06)
Pragmatics, defined as the ability to use language socially, matters enormously in our day-to-day life and involves both the linguistic and social aspects of human communication. The literature ...
Cabello Sánchez, Ricardo (Date of defense: 2023-02-23)
Localization is a fascinating field which has changed dramatically in the last years and it is still changing and adapting itself as society is. The use of machine translation has developed this field ...
Bao, Lingxian (Date of defense: 2021-11-11)
Deep neural networks as an end-to-end approach lacks flexibility and robustness from an application point of view, as one cannot easily adjust the network to fix an obvious problem, especially when ...