Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya: Recent submissions
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Das Märchenstück im zeitgenössischen Kindertheater. Die Adaption von Grimms Märchen für die Bühne
Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit dem Kinder- und Jugendtheater im deutschsprachigen Raum, genauer mit dem Theater für Kinder und Jugendliche, um einer Verwechslung des Theaters mit Kindern und Jugendlichen ...
Factors affecting second language communication strategies use and development
The purpose of this dissertation is to contribute to the field of second language (L2) communication strategies (CS) and, particularly, to examine which factors or combinations of factors are involved in the use and ...
Reterritorialising the Caribbean: Marching alongside Earl Lovelace
This study revolves around the figure of Caribbean writer Earl Lovelace. The thesis demonstrates that the emphasis on the deterritorialisation of the Caribbean region and the focus on transnationalism has meant that what ...
The Role of Task Complexity and Task Sequencing in L2 Monologic Oral Production
In the domain of task-based language teaching (TBLT), researchers have long been interested in exploring the impact of internal task features and conditions on a range of outcomes, such as the occurrence and frequency of ...
DeraciNation: Reading the Borderlands in the Fiction of Zoë Wicomb
This dissertation analyzes the fiction of South African author Zoë Wicomb (1948- ) through her two collections of short stories: You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town (1987) and The One that Got Away (2008) and two novels: David’s ...
Crosslinguistic influence in the acquisition of Greek as a foreign language by Spanish/Catalan L1 learners: The role of proficiency and stays abroad
The purpose of the present study is to investigate the influence of first language (L1) patterns on the acquisition of Greek as a foreign language (L2) by Spanish/Catalan L1 learners, as well as to determine whether L2 ...
The Acquisition of English by Immigrant School Learners in Catalonia: Affective Variables and Cross-linguistic Influence
Research on the acquisition of English by immigrants is abundant when it takes place in second language (SL) contexts. However, few studies deal with immigrant learners’ acquisition of English as a foreign language (EFL). ...
The role of task sequencing in L2 development as mediated by working memory capacity
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 and its effects on L2 ...
Individual Differences in Adult Learners of English as a Foreign Language at Two Levels of Proficiency
In today’s globalised world it is becoming increasingly common that adults need to learn new languages at any age. And while the number of foreign language adult learners keeps growing, there is still a dearth of research ...
“Neither here and nor there does water quench our thirst”: Duty, Obedience and Identity in Greek-Australian and Chinese Australian Prose Fiction, 1971-2005
This thesis presents original research: it examines the constructs of duty and obedience in post-World War II Greek-Australian and Chinese Australian literature and compares the strategies these first- and second-generation ...
Deterritorialising patriarchal binary oppositions: Deleuze & Guattari, Virginia Woolf, Masculinities and Film Adaptations
This thesis aims to problematise the hegemonic set of relations that has been aligned to gender and sex within the framework of binary thought when reading Woolf’s narrative of gender. Woolf’s elusive and intense style, ...
Working-class Culture and Work as portrayed in Texts and Films of Alan Sillitoe´s "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"
My aim is to recreate from the texts and films the world which is shown, and then examine it in order to demonstrate a number of points. I hope to show that there is such a phenomenon as an English working class, and that ...
Beyond the Walls-Potentiality Aborted. The Politics of Intersubjective Universalism in Herman Melville’s Clarel
This dissertation argues that Herman Melville’s Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) is a universalist poem which analyzes the necessity, political potentiality, and challenges of intersubjectivity to the ...
Traducciones del franquismo en el mercado literario español contemporáneo: el caso de Jane Eyre de Juan G. De Luaces
Esta tesis doctoral explora las traducciones de literatura en lengua inglesa producidas en el franquismo todavía comercializándose en la actualidad y analiza el impacto que ejercen en el lector contemporáneo. En particular ...
Estrategias persuasivas en los anuncios de prensa escrita alemana: desarrollo temático, ilocución e implicación emocional
El objetivo general de esta investigación se ha centrado en comprobar cómo se manifiestan los aspectos emocionales en la parte verbal de los anuncios publicitarios en prensa escrita en lengua alemana, sin la pretensión de ...
The Embodied Basis of Discourse Coherence
This doctoral dissertation investigates the corporeal basis of global and local coherence. As far as global coherence is concerned, the main argument of this thesis is that the search for global coherence is often guided ...
La construcción española [DE + INFINITIVO] con valor condicional. Un análisis contrastivo con las condicionales inversas del inglés
El tema de esta tesis doctoral lo constituyen dos análisis. El primer análisis comprende una descripción de la construcción no finita española [DE + infinitivo] con valor condicional (De estar por casa sin pantuflas, te ...
Joan Maragalls Rezeption deutscher Literatur im Identitätsdiskurs der Moderne
Gegenstand der Dissertation ist die eingehende Beschäftigung des katalanischen Dichters Joan Maragall i Gorina (1860-1911) mit Goethe, Nietzsche und Novalis. Diese Rezeption prägt in großem Maße auch seine Überlegungen zu ...
Gebrauch von gehen und kommen im Kontext: diathetische und deiktische Alternanz nach textthematischer, multimodaler und stilistischer Variation
Zusammenfassung Der Forschungsgegenstand der Dissertation ist die multidimensionale Variation bei den unakkusativischen Bewegungsverben gehen und kommen im Gebrauch. Diese Variation erfolgt nämlich auf struktureller ...
La revista «Post-Guerra», la generació de 1930 i la recepció d’autors alemanys en les editorials d’avançada
A partir de la constatació, en el marc de la família de les editorials anomenades “d’avançada” (Madrid, 1928-1936), d’un considerable cabal traductogràfic d’autors originalment en llengua alemanya, el treball, a més d’oferir ...
