Parra López, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2019-12-16)
Much research has been conducted on language variation and marked speech in its various forms, such as dialects, registers, and styles. There is one variety, however, which seems to have been broadly ...
Trencia, Pascale (Date of defense: 2019-11-25)
El present estudi examina com es tradueix el discurs fílmic, especialment els elements marcadors de la variació lingüística, al francès i al castellà, dues llengües pluricèntriques, és a dir, llengües ...
Chen, Zhengyang (Date of defense: 2019-04-29)
Que un producto español pueda insertarse exitosamente en el contexto chino depende principalmente de que el destinatario chino comprenda y valore positivamente ese producto. Para ello, la traducción de ...
Suárez Gallo, Miriam (Date of defense: 2019-06-28)
En esta tesis se aborda la presencia y funcionabilidad de la metáfora en el discurso especializado del genoma humano, tomando como referentes teóricos la Teoría Comunicativa de la Terminología (Cabré, ...
Barnes, Jeremy (Date of defense: 2019-01-28)
Sentiment Analysis is a task that aims to calculate the polarity of text automatically. While some languages, such as English, have a vast array of resources to enable sentiment analysis, most under-resourced ...
Găluşcă, Cristina-Ioana (Date of defense: 2019-01-25)
Human cultures abound in arbitrary symbols and behaviors acquired effortlessly, mostly through social interactions. Here we explore how social aspects of an interaction (ostensive signals) affect the ...
Pozuelo Ollé, Òscar (Date of defense: 2019-11-13)
En la present tesi doctoral estudiem la realització de l’eventivitat lèxica en un corpus textual i un corpus lexicogràfic sobre biopmedicina. Per a abordar les anàlisis, ens basem en la caracterització ...
Ruiz Tada, Elisa (Date of defense: 2019-01-28)
As the world experiences increased international mobility, we encounter those from different racial, ethnic, and linguistic backgrounds. Therefore it is increasingly crucial to examine the ways we ...
Yang, Fengrong (Date of defense: 2019-10-04)
In this dissertation we propose a new mapping theory within the OT-LFG framework to account for the fact that in Catalan and other Romance languages, the direct argument of intransitive verbs (whether ...
Motiei, Golnaz (Date of defense: 2019-05-28)
Emotions, both positive and negative, play an important role in foreign language learning. However, whereas a great number of studies have investigated the construct and sources of negative emotions ...