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This dissertation examines a previously under-researched factor in second language (L2) lexical processing, namely, grammatical class. Although a wealth of research using monolingual and brain-damaged participants suggests that this...
Latin America has historically sustained political, economic, and social upheaval, creating a vacuum of patriarchal power dynamics indicative of gender violence. These dynamics are reflected in personal and political trauma narratives....
This work analyzes the intersections between the notions of geography, power, and resistance, specifically focusing on how these concepts produce and are productive of one another within a French Caribbean context. Focusing on the works...
An on-going debate in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) concerns the role of explicit information (EI) about language in language acquisition. This study explores the role of EI in how instructed second language learners of...
This dissertation explores the role of food representation and identity in Hispanic cultural production as they participate in establishing resistant agency despite historical contexts of authoritarian oppression. Accordingly, I explore...
A central issue in second language acquisition (SLA) research is the relationship between morphosyntactic and lexical-semantic knowledge among L2 learners. It has been proposed that, L2 language acquisition starts with transfer of L1...
Les quartiers immondes d'Haïti: L'image du bidonville Haïtien dans l'œuvre romanesque de Lyonel Trouillot = Relegated Neighborhoods in Haiti: The Representation of Haitian Slums in the Novels of Lyonel Trouillot
Se servant exclusivement des romans de l’écrivain contemporain haïtien Lyonel Trouillot, ce travail présente les bidonvilles en Haïti, caractérisés actuellement par la vulnérabilité aux catastrophes naturelles et des conditions de vie...
The subject of my doctoral dissertation is the abduction and illegal adoptions of children of Republican parents during the Franco dictatorship (1939-1975) and the continued struggle of thousands to acknowledge and resolve this violation...
Esta tesis doctoral analiza el proceso de creación y de transmisión de los cuentos o historias que forman parte del Quijote. Se examina la función e importancia de la pluralidad de voces narrativas que ofrecen, mediante la técnica del...
During the last 17 years, research on Processing Instruction (PI) has shown that PI is an effective focus on form technique for a variety of linguistic structures and for a variety of target languages. This presentation seeks to extend...
The scope of power, truth and knowledge in multiple layers of society reaches the coffee plantation of La charca, the Valencian fields of La barraca, and the rural terrain of central Spain in El caballero encantado, written by Manuel...
The topic of identity is a highly debated topic among Jewish scholars as well as a recurrent theme in works of literature written by Jewish authors throughout the world. In the twentieth century several historical events have shaped and...
With the advances being made in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), research is showing that computers can be an effective tool for the language classroom. However, what is missing seems to be a connection between CALL and Second...
The trickster is a well-known and thoroughly studied mythological figure. Therefore, this thesis will not seek to further define the trickster figure, but rather take the trickster figure of Norse mythology, Loki, and uncover his unique...
This study analyzed the effects of the interactive reading with instructor support (I.R.I.S.) model on reading comprehension as compared to a traditional (direct-teaching/lecture format) instructional model. The I.R.I.S. model combines...
Understanding and defining nation and identity in diaspora has long characterized the cultural production of Caribbean authors. Notwithstanding, Hispanic Caribbean authors that have emigrated to the United States face this question...
Readings of the economic thought of Cuban poet and social theorist José artà have focused on the portion of his journalistic works that looks like economic writing in a conventional sense. I argue that MartÃ's economic writings are far...
This dissertation examines the realization of vowel sequences across word boundaries in Arabic-Spanish bilinguals and Spanish monolinguals in Puerto Rico, as in the phrase hombre inteligente ‘intelligent man’. Spanish and Arabic have...
In my paper, I investigate how money is depicted and the way it plays a primary function and catalyst in its interactions with the other protagonists, how attitudes toward money manifest in the characters’ actions and reveal their...
This dissertation proposes an interpretation of José Martí's texts in relation to New York City during the Nineteenth Century. This work is a multidisciplinary approach to the discursive and spatial representation of modern cities as a...
The dissertation is a study of the socio-cultural impact of the automobile in Spanish Literature: repression, economic progress, sexual liberation, fragmented identity, and abandonment. These socio-cultural issues are in the found in the...
The Shadowless "Inappropriate Other": A Lacanian Analysis of Adelbert von Chamisso's Peter Schlemihl, Patrick Süskind's Das Parfum, and F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu
In this thesis, I interpret Adelbert von Chamisso’s novella Peter Schlemihl, Patrick Süskind’s novel Das Parfum, F.W. Murnau’s film Nosferatu, Werner Herzog’s film Nosferatu, and E. Elias Merhige’s film Shadow of the Vampire in light of...
Alexander Pushkin, the father of Modern Russian literature, has influenced every great contemporary Russian writer. His timeless poetry and insightful prose solidify him as a leading voice in Russian culture. During his lifetime, Pushkin...
The present study reports the findings of two self-paced reading tasks (N = 98). The primary experiment (subjunctive task) investigated the effects of lexical preference on L1 Spanish and L2 Spanish readers' processing of the subjunctive...
This dissertation examines the experiences of young Frenchwomen from the northeastern département of Moselle who, following the surrender of France to the invading Germans in 1940 and the de facto annexation of Moselle into the Third...
Barbara Honigmann's Autobiographical Writing in Damals, Dann und Danach, eine Liebe aus Nichts, and Roman von einem Kinde: Bridging the Past, Present, and Future
This paper will examine the autobiographical writings of German-Jewish author Barbara Honigmann. Hongimann was born in East Berlin in 1949. She studied theater arts and worked in the theater in Berlin until 1975, when she became a free...
Since the 1990s, a large number of texts has been labeled as ‘pop literature'. Although the definition of this term varies broadly depending on the research interest, most scholars come to the conclusion that adolescence and the search...
In this study, I evaluate and explore the role of the antihero and the subordinate male in the patriarchal society as a marginalized voice throughout discourse at the end of the twentieth century. These discourses are first-person...
This study explores the acquisition of intonation by Spanish second language speakers while on a study abroad program in Valencia, Spain. The investigation consists of two groups: a control group and an instruction group. The instruction...
Esta disertación analiza los temas del budismo zen, el yin-yang y la ecologÃa en la obra completa del poeta mexicano Alberto Blanco (1951) para comprobar que todo en el cosmos está conectado y forma parte de un Gran Ser y a la vez que...
This is a study of the cultural variants of the Grimm's brothers famous tale Der Frosch Konig. I will examine five stories, beginning with the Cajun tale The Frog and the Princess, then continue with the Balinese version, The Frg Prince, ...
The purpose of this study is to discover how the female vampire in Delmira Agustini's poem "El vampiro" differs in comparison to her literary predecessors found in the works of Poe, Baudelaire, DarÃo, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina...
This thesis investigates wondrous events in G.E. Lessing's play Nathan der Weise as well as Kleist's novellas Der Findling and Das Erdbeben in Chili. These textual analyses explore the effects that wonders have on the three narratives as...
La Quête dans le Cuer d'Amours Espris de René d'Anjou Comme Réécriture du Roman de la Rose et de la Queste del Sang Graal: Quête d'Une Nouvelle Éthique Princière
Dans le Livre du Cuer d'Amours espris (1457), René d'Anjo affirme s'être inspiré de deux oeuvres majeures du Moyen Age : le Roman de la Rose (1230-1270) et la Queste del Sang Greal (1225-1230). Le Livre du Cuer partage les qualités d...
Although various writers have made fleeting references to fairy-tale aspects found in the Marquis de Sade's libertine texts, no one has placed him squarely in the fairy-tale tradition. This thesis argues that Sade's Justine, his maiden...
German dramatist Geog Büchner is considered one of the most influential writers during the revolutionary Vormärz period in the nineteenth century. Büchner is considered a leading figure in modern theater in Germany, having inspired...
Contemporary Algerian Filmmaking: from "Cinéma National" to "Cinéma De L'Urgence" (Mohamed Chouikh, Merzak Allouache, Yamina Bachir-Chouikh, Nadir Moknèche)
This dissertation considers the position of contemporary Algerian filmmaking (1988-2003) against the much-debated concept of national cinema. Drawing upon a range of theoretical frameworks and concepts such as Third Cinema, transnational...
It is well established in the second language acquisition (SLA) field that Spanish accusative clitics (i.e., direct object pronouns) are forms that pose some difficulties for L2 learners. Research in the field has found that L2 Spanish...
The purpose of this work is to show the interplay between trade, law and family in Lessing's "Nathan der Weise, Kleist's Der Findling, and Kafka's Das Urteil, and to show how these texts are related through that interplay. It will...
This paper examines a series of light metaphors in Goethe's Faust. The purpose is to display a connection between each light metaphor and major developments in Faust's character, namely his development from a restless scholar imprisoned...
This dissertation explores the language that instructors of a second language (such as Spanish) provide their students. Given that input (i.e., communicative samples of the target language (TL)) is a fundamental concept to all theories...
During the last quarter century, the traditional division of works in Spanish into Peninsular versus Latin American has become obsolete. In a global literary market, increasing attention should be paid to themes or tendencies within...
When studying a second language with a different alphabetic script, how does acquiring second script influence our perception of our first language? Does it change the way we read in our own language? Are both languages active and do...
Human trafficking is a major problem in the Russian Federation. Research has shown that the United Nations considers the Russian Federation to be in compliance with their protocol to prevent, suppress, and punish trafficking in persons....
Most of the research on Charlotte Delbo has remained within the realm of Holocaust studies, and her writing, in particular, has been seen as a means of witnessing and preserving memory. Labeled solely as a "Holocaust survivor" and...
Esta investigación examina la representación temática de la esclavitud en Puerto Rico antes de la abolición en 1873. El estudio argumenta, que contrario a la crítica, existen textos que documentan el pensamiento decimonónico sobre la...
The intonation of Yes-No questions in Puerto Rican and other Caribbean varieties of Spanish has provoked great interest of the investigators, partly because of its unique circumflex contour that is different from the final rising contour...
For several decades, research in instructed second language acquisition (SLA) has focused on identifying the facilitative role that interaction plays in second language (L2) development (e.g., Gass, 1997; Long, 1996; Pica, 1996). Within...
Germany can be considered a country of immigration due to the fact that there have been several waves of immigrants moving to Germany from different countries due to various circumstances. One of the immigrant groups addressed in this...
This project studies the subjective strategies that Rosa Montero and Lucìa Etxebarria present in post-Franco Spain. I approached this study with an understanding that Spain's society since the death of Franco is still changing, and its...
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