Kuzmicheva, Maria (Date of defense: 2013-11-05)
The present piece of research is concerned with 12 Northern stories written by the American writer Jack London. Its goal is to apply discourse analysis as a framework to the study of narrative texts ...
Igualada Pérez, Alfonso (Date of defense: 2017-03-27)
In everyday interactions, speakers integrate gestures and speech sounds at a temporal level. One of the linguistic functions of temporally synchronous gesture-speech combinations is to provide prominence ...
Arias Badia, Blanca (Date of defense: 2017-07-10)
The specialised literature has suggested the intermediate position of television dialogue and subtitling along the continuum from spoken to written language (e.g. Díaz-Cintas 2003; Quaglio 2009; Forchini ...
Rohrer, Patrick Louis (Date of defense: 2022-12-16)
Human language is essentially multimodal in that speakers use multiple channels to convey meaning, including speech prosody and gesture (e.g. Mondada, 2016; Perniss, 2018). In the last decades, studies ...
Wohlmuth, Kata (Date of defense: 2019-06-19)
Mereological models are often used to account for distributive reference, which arises when the denotation of a linguistic expression holds of certain parts of the plurality to which it is applied. It ...
Roquet i Pugès, Helena (Date of defense: 2011-07-21)
Esta tesis doctoral pretende aportar nuevos datos sobre los efectos del enfoque AICLE (Aprendizaje Integrado de Contenido y Lengua Extranjera) en las habilidades productivas y receptivas de los alumnos ...
Ginovart Cid, Clara (Date of defense: 2021-07-02)
While (translation) technology and the language industry continue to evolve, varieties of professional profiles and nuances to the relevant skillsets emerge. The field of machine translation post-editing, ...
Cao, Shuyuan (Date of defense: 2018-11-09)
As one of the essential elements for Natural Language Processing (NLP), discourse has called much attention during recent years. Many studies explore the role of how discourse elements affect in different ...
Puig Waldmüller, Estela Sophie (Date of defense: 2008-06-18)
En el trabajo la semántica y pragmática de formas contraídas y no-contraídas en Alemán serán discutidas. Formas contraídas son preposiciones con sufijos flexionales, obligatorias en contextos en las que ...
Sichel-Bazin, Rafèu (Date of defense: 2015-06-17)
Occitan and French are two Gallo-Romance languages that have been in a diglossic situation in Southern France for centuries. Couched in an Autosegmental-Metrical framework, the present thesis analyzes ...