• Identity building and language learning opportunities in a brony fandom 

  Shafirova, Liudmila (Date of defense: 28-07-2020)

  Second language use online has become a regular practice for many Internet users reflecting the emergence of new participatory cultures in the virtual world. However, little is yet known about the processes of language use ...
• A Cross-linguistic comparison of the verbs of speaking with the component of non-standard speech and their translation (English-Russian) 

  Pasenkova, Irina (Date of defense: 02-07-2020)

  In this dissertation we examine the sphere of the English verbs of speaking (VoS) with 2 components: the manner of speaking component (MoSC) and the component of non-standard speech (CoNS), and their translations from ...
• Non-referential beat gestures as a window onto the development of children’s narrative abilities 

  Vilà-Giménez, Ingrid (Date of defense: 30-06-2020)

  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, while less is known ...
• El Grafè: comunicació i transferència de coneixement a través de la premsa online i de metodologies de disseny participatives 

  Guasch Balcells, Blanca (Date of defense: 29-06-2020)

  La rapidesa amb què dia a dia evoluciona la ciència fa que sigui gairebé impossible per a la societat estar ben informada sobre els darrers avenços; fet que dificulta la presa de decisions i la vinculació ciutadana en ...
• The Appropriation of Māori identities in the nation branding and public diplomacy of Aotearoa New Zealand: an attempt to understand how cultural identities are self-constructed, planned and projected for specific communication purposes 

  Séra, Jasmin (Date of defense: 25-06-2020)

  This interdisciplinary research investigated the construction of cultural identities in the Nation Branding and Public Diplomacy in Aotearoa New Zealand. On the example of New Zealand’s indigenous population, the Māori, ...

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