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"The Contrails Streaked Cleanly in the High Sky" An Ecocritical Reading of Don DeLillo's White Noise and Underworld
(Master thesis, 2012-11-20)This thesis will examine the articulation, significance, and changing notion of the environment in two novels by the American author Don DeLillo: White Noise (1985) and Underworld (1997). This thesis will read DeLillo's ... -
Controverses du changement climatique : la représentation des paroles d’autrui dans les pages de discussion sur Wikipédia francophone et norvégien
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Résumé Le présent article se propose d’explorer l’encyclopédie collaborative Wikipédia au prisme de deux aspects ayant particulièrement intéressé Kjersti Fløttum au fil de ses travaux : (i) la crise climatique, qui sera ... -
A corpus-based study on the evolution of There: Statistical analysis and cognitive interpretation
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Corpus-pragmatic perspectives on the contemporary weakening of fuck: The case of teenage British English conversation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This study examines the pragmatic functions of fuck among British English teenagers in casual conversation in two youth language corpora from the 1990s and 2010s. It applies a corpus-pragmatics approach to explore how the ... -
La correlation temps-espace dans l’oeuvre romanesque de Mongo Beti. Parcours chronotopique de Ville cruelle, Perpétue et Branle-bas en noir et blanc
(Doctoral thesis, 2011-12-06)This work is an exploration of Bakhtin’s chronotope in the novel of the Cameroonian writer Mongo Beti, whose pen has relentlessly been exposing, for nearly half a century, the abuses of colonialism and neo-colonialism on ... -
Court Trials ... in Egypt
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Creencias y actitudes lingüísticas acerca de las formas de tratamiento en Nicaragua
(Doctoral thesis, 2012-06-01)The aim of this study is to describe and interpret the attitudes of Nicaraguans towards the use of the pronouns of address, based on a mentalist theory of language attitudes study. To reveal the attitudes, I present a ... -
Crisis and Infantilization in the Technological Landscapes of Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano (1952), J.G. Ballard's Crash (1973) and Dave Eggers' The Circle (2013)
(Master thesis, 2015-11-27)Literature has a long history of articulating the dangers as well as the possibilities for human life in confrontation with technology. Among the literatures expressing these concerns we also find Player Piano (1952) by ... -
Cuba fue diferente. El derrumbe del socialismo euro-soviético visto desde el Partido Comunista de Cuba (1989-1992 y 2013)
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-04-28)The Collapse of European-Soviet Socialism (1989-1991, “the collapse”) created a profound socio-economic crisis in Cuba, and also had a strong political-ideological impact on this Caribbean nation. Many observers ... -
A Culinary Quest : Peruvian Women Entrepreneurs in Southern California Negotiating Gender, Home, and Belonging
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-05-21)A complex context of reception shapes culinary business ownership among Peruvian immigrants in Southern California. In the United States, Latinxs are often negatively portrayed as undocumented, poor, and criminals, and ... -
Curzio Malaparte nelle opere Kaputt e La pelle
(Master thesis, 2017-06-15)Abstract Questa tesi di master esamina la figura di Curzio Malaparte in quanto autore, narratore e protagonista nelle opere Kaputt e La pelle. Analizza come la presenza del personaggio Malaparte influenza la lettura e la ... -
David Malouf's "Remembering Babylon" and "An Imaginary Life:" Identity Processes in the Postcolonial Borderland
(Master thesis, 2008-11-13)This thesis discusses David Malouf's two novels Remembering Babylon and An Imaginary Life and how they represent the meeting between self and other in the postcolonial borderland. By linking postcolonial theory and border ... -
De la congruence entre pratiques de classe et épreuve de dissertation en classe de première littéraire dans l’enseignement secondaire général au Cameroun
(Master thesis, 2023-05-15)This research project raises the problem of the congruence between what is evaluated the in literature essay during the Probatory certification exams in Cameroon and what is actually taught in literature class. It goes ... -
The Death and Resurrection of Oshun in Beyonc e’s Lemonade: Subverting the Institutionalized Borders of Western Christian Thought in American Popular Culture
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"Der Versuch man selbst zu sein" Christa Wolfs und Brigitte Reimanns Systemkritik in "Nachdenken über Christa T." und "Franziska Linkerhand"
(Master thesis, 2015-05-14)Ziel dieser Arbeit war es, zu untersuchen, ob und inwiefern die Autorinnen Christa Wolf und Brigitte Reimann in ihren Werken "Nachdenken über Christa T." und "Franziska Linkerhand" Systemkritik äußerten. Außerdem stand im ... -
Det mannlige vergesystemet for saudiarabiske kvinner. En undersøkelse av kampanjen #IamMyOwnGuardian (Jeg er min egen verge) Fra juli 2016 til september 2018
(Master thesis, 2018)In July 2016, Saudi Arabian women launched the campaign «I am my own Guardian». The main platform of the campaign was at the webpage Twitter.com with the hashtag #IAmMyOwnGuardian. The intention was to put an ending to ... -
Developing and validating a questionnaire on young learners’ multilingualism and multilingual identity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Validation of data collection instruments is a necessary step in all research and should be regarded as an integral component in every stage of the research process; however, the validation process is often not accounted ... -
Dialectología histórica del español de América Central. Nivel fonético-fonológico
(Journal article, 2021)The main goal of the present study is, firstly, to approach to some current issues on Central American Spanish, viewing them within both a geolectal and a diachronic perspective, in order to trace, as far as the possibilities ...