Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Spanish and Portuguese by Title
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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
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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
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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
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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 ... -
MODELING SPANISH MOOD CHOICE IN BELIEF STATEMENTS
(Georgetown University, 2013)This work develops a computational methodology new to linguistics that empirically evaluates competing linguistic theories on Spanish verbal mood choice through the use of computational techniques to learn mood and other ... -
MODELOS PARA GOBERNAR UN IMPERIO ENTRE DOS MUNDOS: CULTURA POLÍTICA, AUTORIDAD LETRADA Y SOBERANÍAS ANDINAS EN EL PERÚ COLONIAL, 1723-1790
(Georgetown University, 2016)MODELOS PARA GOBERNAR UN IMPERIO ENTRE DOS MUNDOS: CULTURA POLÍTICA, AUTORIDAD LETRADA Y SOBERANÍAS ANDINAS EN EL PERÚ COLONIAL, 1723-1790 -
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 ... -
A Neurocognitive Investigation of Bilingual Advantages at Additional Language Learning
(Georgetown University, 2013)This study investigated bilingual advantages at additional languages learning by comparing early, highly proficient bilinguals to monolinguals' learning of an additional language in adulthood. The study used both behavioral ... -
Output, Task Modality, and Target Form Salience in Learner Noticing of Form and L2 Development
(Georgetown University, 2018)The present two-experiment study investigated how learner-generated focus on form and subsequent L2 development is maximized or hindered by relevant factors related to the task (output requirements, modality conditions), ...
