Haiduc, Sonia Amalia (Date of defense: 2021-03-19)
This thesis examines the sub-genre of the literary biopic and its intersections with literary texts and other film genres through the lens of the melodramatic mode. It explores the dramatization of the ...
Limaverde Cabral Pinheiro, David (Date of defense: 2017-09-20)
This present project is inserted in a transdisciplinary approach, focusing on paths of how Cultural Pedagogy is performed among artists of the city of Fortaleza, Brazil – in the context of socially ...
Suárez Vilagran, María del Mar (Date of defense: 2010-11-26)
The present dissertation is concerned with language aptitude in young learners. The first aim of this dissertation is to validate the content of two new instruments: the adaptation to both Spanish ...
Markina, Elena (Date of defense: 2019-02-01)
The present study explores the impact that task-supported language teaching (TSLT) and task- based language teaching (TBLT) have on the acquisition of case forms and verbs of motion in Russian and on ...
Casanovas Romeu, Pompeu (Date of defense: 2022-06-20)
Law as Knowledge. Anthropological Bases for the Regulation of the Web of Data is a Dissertation on law and regulatory models on the Web of (Linked) Open Data, the Internet of Things, and Industry 4.0. ...
Marsol Jornet, Anna (Date of defense: 2015-11-20)
This dissertation examines the English language learning experience of primary school learners in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom settings. ...
Ramírez i Simon, Wendy (Date of defense: 2016-01-11)
The ultimate goal of this work is to contribute to the contemporary debate over the crisis of nowadays Western liberal democracies. We approach the debate from the perspective of political philosophy. ...
López Peña, Laura (Date of defense: 2013-10-18)
This dissertation argues that Herman Melville’s Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) is a universalist poem which analyzes the necessity, political potentiality, and challenges of ...
Pérez Pérez, Laura Natalia (Date of defense: 2012-10-05)
In this dissertation I study and empirically test whether belief attributions are context-sensitive, i.e., whether the truth value of a belief report of the form ‘A believes that S’ is sensitive to ...
Castaño Castaño, Emilia (Date of defense: 2012-11-09)
This doctoral dissertation investigates the corporeal basis of global and local coherence. As far as global coherence is concerned, the main argument of this thesis is that the search for global coherence ...