Sehgal, Sapna (Date of defense: 2021-12-17)
This doctoral dissertation examines the effects of a short stay abroad (SA) experience on second language (L2) oral fluency development, taking into consideration individual differences in cognition and ...
Meer, Golda Van der (Date of defense: 2021-04-13)
Cuando la naturalidad del territorio ha desaparecido, solo en el poema puede una lengua minoritaria luchar por subsistir. Esta tesis examina cómo los factores históricos pueden modificar la relación con ...
Martínez Rodríguez, Elena (Date of defense: 2020-04-20)
This dissertation provides a philological corpus of the kinship lexicon attested in the Lycian and Hieroglyphic Luwian sources with an evaluation of their semantic, morphological and epigraphic aspects. ...
Arbués Caballés, Cristina (Date of defense: 2022-05-29)
This work explores the use and abuse of authorship in Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001) and Sweet Tooth (2012). Through an exploration of a variety of different theoretical fields, the study focuses on the ...
Wisniewska, Natalia (Date of defense: 2021-02-26)
This doctoral dissertation examines the benefits of extended exposure to multimodal input through captioned videos for second language pronunciation development. It investigates the effects of TV viewing ...
Plotnikova, Anastasiia (Date of defense: 2022-05-19)
This doctoral dissertation explores the effects of prolonged exposure to audio-visual input on learning a variety of English L2 grammatical constructions. The thesis is organised around three interconnected ...
Banks, Donna (Date of defense: 2022-01-20)
This dissertation takes a transatlantic approach in its exploration of identity and representation by examining artistic practices within areas of the Caribbean, Europe, and the United States. Australia ...
Kogan, Vita (Date of defense: 2020-02-21)
Adult language learners often experience difficulty acquiring a new sound system. Empirical studies have shown that native phonetic categories function as a filter that removes specific acoustic cues ...
Tirado Mauri, Marta (Date of defense: 2022-06-14)
This PhD thesis, entitled “Ethical Intentionality in Sarah Kane’s Blasted: Dramaturgy, Performance and Reception / Intencionalitat ètica a Blasted, de Sarah Kane: dramatúrgia, escenificació i recepció,” ...
Komorowska, Katarzyna (Date of defense: 2021-01-27)
This thesis examines paranoid perception as a tool for the emancipation of women in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 and David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive. Both the novel and the film are set in a ...