Polymeneas, Georgios-Alexandros (Date of defense: 2018-11-09)
political elites position themselves towards the knowledge they communicate, taking also into consideration the several ideological and political aims related with the legitimization of austerity. Our ...
Hübscher, Iris (Date of defense: 2018-06-27)
their uncertainty. The third study uses a forced-choice paradigm to assess children’s understanding of a speaker’s politeness presented in audio only, video only and audio-visual formats. Results show ...
Murgia, Pamela (Date of defense: 2018-11-08)
Hamas, acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement, is a political movement that was founded in 1987 and has, since 2007, been in charge of the Gaza Strip. The movement was initially characterised by a ...
Fathi, Besharat (Date of defense: 2017-09-15)
The strategic importance of terminology planning, its complexities, and implementation of the policies have been tackled in the literature from distinct points of views. The diversity of discussions and ...
Muñoz Basols, Javier Francisco (Date of defense: 2012-03-09)
This thesis examines the relationship between sound, meaning, humor and culture through the lens of translation. It illustrates the relevance of sound to determining the meaning of words by analyzing ...
Giugliano, Marcello (Date of defense: 2012-06-28)
This doctoral thesis studies the recreation of spoken language in Robert Frost’s poetry and the translation of Frost’s poetry that has been carried out by Agustí Bartra and Miquel Declot into Catalan, ...
Igualada Pérez, Alfonso (Date of defense: 2017-03-27)
of synchronous pointing gesture-speech combinations during controlled socio-communicative interactions at 12 months with linguistic measures at 18 months. Results demonstrated that synchronous productions ...
Ament, Jennifer (Date of defense: 2018-11-06)
This doctoral dissertation has three main aims: firstly, to investigate the acquisition of pragmatic markers (PMs); secondly, to investigate the effect of either full- or semi-English-medium instruction ...
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 ...
Quixal Martínez, Martí (Date of defense: 2012-12-20)
Esta investigación se encuentra en la encrucijada entre el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural y el Aprendizaje y Enseñanza de Lenguas Extranjeras y, en concreto, dentro del área denominada Aprendizaje ...