Resano, Dolores (Date of defense: 2017-09-22)
This dissertation analyzes a typically overlooked novel within the corpus of post-9/11 fiction studies, Jess Walter’s The Zero (2006), and puts forward some hypotheses for this under-examination. It ...
Fraga, Joana Margarida Ribeirete de (Date of defense: 2013-09-12)
The dissertation “Three revolts in images: Catalonia, Portugal and Naples (1640-1647) is about the role of political visual communication during the revolts of 1640-1647 in Catalonia, Portugal and Naples. ...
Sebastián González, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 2011-06-17)
A naturalistic account of phenomenal consciousness is presented: Self-Involving Representationalism. The first step for the project of naturalizing phenomenal consciousness is to make the project ...
Levkina, Mayya (Date of defense: 2014-02-28)
The present dissertation was inspired by the increasing interest in task sequencing in L2 syllabus design, on the one hand, and the lack of empirical studies, on the other hand, where task sequencing ...
Darbellay, Aurélien (Date of defense: 2017-09-27)
This thesis has four chapters which, together, offer a non-exhaustive but still quite extensive account of social reality. In Chapter 1, I defend an analysis of the notion of sociality which has it ...
Pujadas Jorba, Geòrgia (Date of defense: 2019-11-22)
This doctoral dissertation explores the benefits of an extensive exposure to L2 television for content comprehension and vocabulary learning with beginner, adolescent EFL learners, through a longitudinal ...
de Valdivia Pujol, Glòria (Date of defense: 2014-07-24)
This thesis presents a descriptive empirical study of deverbal nominalizations. Very often what can be expressed by means of a deverbal noun can also be expressed by means of a verbal construction and ...
Gesa Vidal, Ferran (Date of defense: 2019-11-29)
Whether and how video viewing is beneficial for language learning has been a matter of debate over the last decades (Vanderplank, 2015). Multimedia learning theories (Mayer, 2009; Paivio, 1986) suggest ...
Lorenzo Salazar, Danica Joy (Date of defense: 2011-11-24)
The present dissertation is a corpus-based investigation of the frequency, structure and functions of lexical bundles in published scientific writing in English, whose main objective is the creation of ...
Nieto Isabel, Delfina Isabel (Date of defense: 2018-11-05)
This dissertation focuses on the application of the methods of Social Network Analysis to the study of religious dissident movements in late medieval Languedoc. The aim of the project is to analyse the ...