Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Spanish and Portuguese by Title
Now showing items 43-62 of 100
-
Hacia una poética del performance cancioneril: culturas del libro de la España Trastámara a la Imperial
(Georgetown University, 2019)In my dissertation, I examine textual performance in the Spanish cancionero (songbook), a type of literary compilation that became an instrument for image projection, social commentary, and humanist exchange in lettered ... -
Heritage and Second Language Learners of Spanish: The Roles of Task Complexity and Inhibitory Control
(Georgetown University, 2013)Scholars in language education have called for a research agenda that examines how heritage language (HL) learners re-learn their family language since their experience learning the heritage language differs from that of ... -
Heterogeneidad de los discursos sobre lo indigena en las revistas indigenistas peruanas de vanguardia
(Georgetown University, 2011) -
How To Synchronize? A Study of Video-Based, Voice-Based & Text-Based Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication, Working Memory, and Second Language Learning
(Georgetown University, 2018)The growing presence of Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication (SCMC), defined as ‘real-time, synchronous conversation that takes place online’ (Baralt & Leow, 2016, p. 200), via video-chat programs such as Skype in ... -
Hungry Narratives: Multifocal Readings of Human and Non-human Affects in the Americas
(Georgetown University, 2021)The crafting of travel accounts was decisive for the implementation of exploitative practices towards indigenous societies and nature in the New World. The descriptions of flora, fauna, and local inhabitants not only ... -
IN SEARCH OF IDENTITY: THE PLACE OF SPACE, (PROTO)RACE AND IDEOLOGY IN COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL HONDURAS
(Georgetown University, 2012)The objective of this study is to identify and explain the different processes and discursive practices that constructed the national character and identity of the Honduran people. Through a diachronic analysis of Honduras ... -
Individual differences and linguistic factors in the development of mid vowels in L2 Spanish learners: A longitudinal study
(Georgetown University, 2017)This study was a longitudinal investigation into how learner individual differences (IDs) and linguistic factors shape developmental trajectories of second language (L2) production of the Spanish mid vowels /e/ and /o/. ... -
Interaction in Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication: The Effects of Interlocutor, Task, and State Anxiety
(Georgetown University, 2020)There is an increasingly large body of research that has addressed how interaction via Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication (SCMC) may support second language (L2) development (see Ziegler, 2016 for a review). Various ... -
La estructura temporal en el teatro de Mario Vargas Llosa
(Georgetown University, 2010) -
La historia doble del testimonio en la costa Colombiana: aproximaciones a una episteme alternativa
(Georgetown University, 2019)The testimonial genre was born in Latin America in the seventies with transformative sociopolitical purposes. Nevertheless, it loses its subversive power along the way culminating as mere text with no further consequences ... -
La imaginación biográfica: El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega y la formación del campo cultural peruano (1847-1916)
(Georgetown University, 2011)This dissertation examines the importance of the life and work of the 16th century mestizo writer, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, in establishing the field of cultural production in Peru. My research analyzes the historiographical ... -
La ira antiimperialista: Lope de Aguirre y la izquierda latinoamericana
(Georgetown University, 2018)¿Por qué los proyectos antiimperialistas tienden a convertirse en tiranías? Esta es la pregunta que busca responder la disertación. Lope de Aguirre, el primer líder revolucionario moderno, y sus adaptaciones a través de ... -
Las cuotas raciales en el discurso mediatico y academico Brasileno
(Georgetown University, 2010) -
Las ficciones del traductor: el traductor como protagonista en la literatura reciente en español
(Georgetown University, 2016)This dissertation examines the upsurge in the representation of translators and the act of translation in contemporary fiction. In Latin American and Spanish literature of the past three decades, I focus on works that ... -
Level of Intake, Depth of Processing, and Type of Linguistic Item in L2 Development
(Georgetown University, 2014)L2 learners must employ selective attention minimally to isolate linguistic features in input to be able to take them in. Based on previous theoretical postulations and empirical research, Leow (forthcoming) postulates ... -
Libros de Buen Humor: Understanding the Comic in Fourteeth-Century Frame Narratives
(Georgetown University, 2014)This dissertation is a comparative study of the functions of humor in three fourteenth-century frame collections: the Iberian text, El Libro de buen amor, Boccaccio's Decameron, and Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. With the ... -
Lo monstruoso en dos novelas contemporaneas : una indagacion de la modernidad en latinoamerica
(Georgetown University, 2009) -
A longitudinal study on the role of lexical stress and motivation in the perception and production of L2 Spanish stop consonants
(Georgetown University, 2014)This study investigated the perception and production of two L2 stop consonants, examining the importance of lexical stress and motivation to learners' ability to discriminate and produce Spanish /b/ and /p/. Longitudinal ... -
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 ...
