Programa de Doctorat en Traducció i Ciències del Llenguatge: Enviaments recents
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L'Estabilitat referencial i la dominança lingüística en el marcatge diferencial d'objecte en el bilingüisme català-espanyol
El marcatge diferencial d’objecte (MDO) és un fenomen complex, regulat per factors nominals, verbals i pragmàtics. L’animacitat i l’estabilitat referencial dels objectes (Aissen, 2003, Farkas i von Heusinger, 2003) són dos ...
Writer-reader relationship and technicality of vocabulary in multilingual health information websites in English, Spanish, and Catalan
The purpose of the thesis is to investigate multilingual health information websites in English, Spanish, and Catalan for comprehensibility and cultural adaptation in terms of language. This study questions whether there ...
Processing of sentential meaning: behavioural and electroencephalographic evidence in neurotypical and Williams syndrome adult populations
Meaning in any naturalistic utterance has a dual aspect: one is lexical-semantic memory, which enters into utterances in the form of words that we remember and retrieve; the other is the specific kind of meaning carried ...
Multimodal phonetic training: the benefits of hand gestures on learning L2 sounds
In the realm of second language acquisition of pronunciation, perception-based phonetic training has been shown to be effective in improving L2 perception and production. By incorporating the visual modality of the speaker’s ...
Structural language change in Alzheimer's disease: a study of spontaneous speech tasks across different stages of cognitive impairment
Linguistic characteristics of spontaneous connected speech are showing increasing potential for detecting and tracking cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease, and could be particularly suitable to study at-risk populations ...
La Traducción chino-español de las metáforas sobre Relaciones de Género en la novela Wei Cheng (围城): un estudio desde la perspectiva del análisis del discurso
Wei Cheng (围城 ), una de las obras literarias más importantes de la China moderna, es ampliamente conocida por su estilo sarcástico y el uso de abundantes metáforas. Mediante un estudio de la traducción chino-español de las ...
Ideología e identidad social e institucional: el discurso del diario ABC Color sobre la población indígena del Paraguay durante el gobierno de Fernando Lugo (2008-2012)
Aquesta tesi constitueix una anàlisi de la ideologia en el discurs del diari ABC Color sobre la població indígena del Paraguai durant els anys del govern de Fernando Lugo (2008-2012). A partir de l'aproximació sociocognitiva ...
La Societat Maonesa (1778-1785) i les traduccions a Menorca al segle XVIII
L’objecte d’estudi d’aquesta tesi doctoral és la Societat Maonesa (1778-1785), entitat cultural, amb seu a Maó, fundada per intel·lectuals de la burgesia de Menorca durant el segon període de la dominació britànica ...
Towards stigmergic heterogenous symbiotic robot teams: enhancing RFID-based stigmergic robots for mapless environments
The study in this thesis presents new solutions for increasing the performance of RFID-based inventory robots. The first novel solution is the design of an RFID-based inventory aerial robot for the problem of stock-counting ...
Using virtual reality to train public speaking skills in a secondary school setting
Training adolescent students to speak in public is crucial for the development of their oral competence but also beneficial for their social abilities, as it empowers them to engage in learning opportunities among their ...
US Latina/o/x migrations, translations and routes of reception: an integrated critique
The object of study of this thesis is a special case of translation: the Anglophone literature of writers of Caribbean or Latin American origin in the United States translated into Spanish. This case is special because of ...
Music enhances second language pronunciation acquisition: the benefits of songs and embodied rhythmic and melodic activities
In the last decades, a growing number of studies have investigated the relationship between two unique abilities of humankind, music and language. Music and language share important structural similarities related to ...
El Oro negro de la ciudad: una etnografia sobre la producción del sujeto mantero y su voz
La voz como problema ha sido abordado desde distintos campos. Se ha identificado filosóficamente con la capacidad intrínsecamente humana de narrar la propia historia. En relación a la movilización social, se ha visto ...
Rewriting the Other, understanding the Self
This PhD thesis presents a descriptive approach to the translation and reception of African American women’s literature in Spain. My research starts by examining the original conditions of production of this literature, ...
Traducción y autotraducción en la obra de José María Arguedas
Aquesta tesi doctoral es proposa estudiar la pràctica de traducció i autotraducció de l’escriptor i antropòleg peruà José María Arguedas (1911-1969). Tot i la seva importància en la literatura hispanoamericana contemporània, ...
Metaphorical representations of obesity in chinese media (2010-2020)
Obesity is a pressing health issue and a popular topic in Chinese media. This PhD thesis investigates the metaphors used to talk about obesity in Chinese media. Specifically, this thesis compares the editorials in the ...
Thai TV series brought to Spanish-speaking audiences: a study of fansubbing practices
This thesis investigates the complexities of the fansubbing of Thai TV series into Spanish as a representative case of two underexplored areas in Translation Studies: non-professional translation and pivot translation. ...
Exploring graphic pathographies construction: a multimodal analysis
In the last couple of years, medical information has been presented across different digital and visual forms of communication. Mainly, comics are published on various social media platforms and websites to submit a ...
Machine translation in a professional translation workflow: post-editing or computer aided translation
Localization is a fascinating field which has changed dramatically in the last years and it is still changing and adapting itself as society is. The use of machine translation has developed this field astonishingly. Many ...
Developing a multimodal pedagogical approach for English literature teaching
In the field of teaching English literature to Spanish adolescents, a multimodal approach offers diverse modes of representation and brings potential for meaning making. However, teaching with digital technology or using ...
