Serra Pagès, Conrad (Date of defense: 2020-02-21)
The aim of this thesis is to assess David Malouf’s contribution to the field of gender and men studies in his fiction books. In order to do so, I have proceeded by offering a close reading of each of ...
Bernardo Flórez, Marina (Date of defense: 2021-12-16)
Chicano children’s literature was born in the wake of the so-called El Movimiento, the Chicano Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and especially the 1970s. In the 1990s, as a part of the rising trend ...
Fontanals García, David (Date of defense: 2020-03-02)
In July 1941, Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), finished the first draft of his memoirs, which he titled Blick auf mein Leben. One month later, in August 1941, he and his wife Lotte would leave for Brazil never ...
Muñoz Andirkó, Alejandro Gregorio (Date of defense: 2021-07-26)
Over the last years we have come to realize that the history of our species is not as simple as we once thought. We are now faced with complex demographic scenarios, events of admixture with human species ...
Martins, Pedro Tiago (Date of defense: 2020-09-08)
All humans have language. This capacity is a complex biological trait whose evolu- tion is currently an active research topic, especially in recent years. This thesis is an attempt at contributing to ...
O'Rourke, Thomas (Date of defense: 2021-04-27)
The human capacity for language is made up of various cognitive subcomponents, the convergence of which allows our species a unique ability to relay our thoughts. Identifying these subcomponents and ...
Yanygina Yanygina, Galina (Date of defense: 2020-07-07)
Other-directed emotions, both positive (e.g. love, pity, admiration) and negative (e.g. hatred, anger, disgust), play an important role in communication due to their social nature and involvement of ...
Moskvina, Natalia (Date of defense: 2023-09-22)
[eng] This doctoral dissertation examines incidental learning of formulaic sequences from exposure to L2 captioned videos of different genres and explores learner-related factors that might affect this ...
Galimberti, Valeria (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)
[eng] In the schools of many countries, English is taught as a foreign language with the goal of preparing students for the demands of higher education and for a globalized workforce where English is ...
Romero Juncosa, Antoni (Date of defense: 2023-11-06)
[eng] According to estimates, 40.1 million people have died from AIDS-related health complications since the onset of the AIDS epidemic. The official implementation of highly active antiretroviral therapy ...