Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Spanish and Portuguese
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"Para destruir por el gusto la naturaleza del hombre": Gastronomía y construcción social colonial en México y los Andes
(Georgetown University, 2017)This dissertation explores the hybridization and identity negotiation of Spanish-American colonial society through its food and cuisine, and the different ways in which these were produced, consumed, and represented. I ... -
The Role of Crosslinguistic Influence from L2 Spanish, Type of Linguistic Item, and Aptitude in the Learning Stages of L3 Portuguese Forms: An Exploratory Study
(Georgetown University, 2017)This study investigates facilitative and non-facilitative crosslinguistic influence (CLI) from second language (L2) Spanish in third language (L3) Portuguese learning by native English speakers, testing some of the hypotheses ... -
Metaficción Historiográfica: Memoria e Identidad en la narrativa textual y fílmica española y británica posmoderna
(Georgetown University, 2017)This dissertation explores how historical memory and cultural memory are mediatized in contemporary Spanish and British novels and their film adaptations. It demonstrates how representations of historical and cultural ... -
THE MORPHOSYNTAX OF GENDER AND WORD CLASS IN SPANISH: EVIDENCE FROM -(C)ITO/A DIMINUTIVES
(Georgetown University, 2017)Since the inception of Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz, 1993), there have been two notable, but preliminary, analyses of Spanish gender and word class within this framework: Harris (1999) and Kramer (2015). This ... -
THE EFFECTS OF TYPE OF FEEDBACK, AMOUNT OF FEEDBACK AND TASK-ESSENTIALNESS IN A L2 COMPUTER-ASSISTED STUDY
(Georgetown University, 2016)For decades SLA research has looked at learner-external factors as influencers of learning outcomes, one of them being computerized types of feedback, with non-conclusive results. Moreover, a potentially significant ...
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