Programa de Doctorat en Traducció i Ciències del Llenguatge: Recent submissions
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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 ...
Two mental disorders as disease models of language: linguistic (dis)organisation in schizophrenia and Huntington's disease
Language is a core aspect of human cognition and richly interacts with aspects of nonverbal cognition, as evidence from normal development (Perszyk & Waxman, 2018), abnormal development (Schroeder et al., 2020), and aphasia ...
Information structure and language dominance in subject pronoun resolution in Catalan-Spanish bilingualism
Pronominal anaphora resolution, and particularly the interpretation of third-person null and overt subject pronouns, is a complex linguistic phenomenon of the syntax-pragmatics interface. On the one hand, it has been ...
Lingue romanze e inglese: nemici o amici?. L'intercomprensione romanza come strumento strategico e motivazionale per apprendenti preadolescenti in contesto scolare
Pur nel vastissimo corpus di studi condotti in un trentennio di ricerca sull’intercomprensione (IC), poca attenzione è stata ancora dedicata alla sua apertura extra-familiare — nel nostro caso dalle lingue romanze (LR) ...
A temporal and pragmatic analysis of gestures-speech association: a corpus-based approach using the novel Multimodal MultiDimensional (M3D) labeling system
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 within the field of ...
Atenuació de la crítica en llengua de signes catalana (LSC): l'opinió restringida com a estratègia mitigadora
Aquesta tesi estudia la cortesia en llengua de signes catalana (LSC), concretament, l’atenuació de la crítica a través de l’estratègia discursiva de restringir l’opinió personal. Amb aquest propòsit, hem elaborat un corpus ...
Hölderlin, Cernuda y Gebser: historia de una traducción
Aquesta tesi presenta una recerca entorn de les traduccions que de Friedrich Hölderlin van realitzar, a quatre mans, el poeta i editor alemany Hans Gebser i el poeta sevillà Luis Cernuda per a la revista Cruz y Raya de ...
