Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Spanish and Portuguese by Title
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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), ... -
"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 ... -
Perception and Production of Intonation among English-Spanish Bilingual Speakers at Different Proficiency Levels
(Georgetown University, 2015)This dissertation examined the perception and production of intonation among 55 English-native speakers of Spanish at three proficiency levels (low, high, and very high). Their performance was compared with monolingual ... -
Poéticas Amargas: Estéticas Y Políticas De La Plantación De Azúcar En Brazil Y El Caribe (1990-2018)
(Georgetown University, 2021)Bittersweet Poetics asks how a multimedia group of works of art about the sugar plantation —ranging from graphic novels and installation art made out of sugar to photographs—reimagine and rewrite national discourses about ... -
PUSHING FOR PROCESSING: THE ROLES OF DEPTH OF PROCESSING, WORKING MEMORY, AND REACTIVITY ON COMPREHENSION
(Georgetown University, 2015)PUSHING FOR PROCESSING: -
Quijotes en ciernes: Caballeria, genero y autoridad en las cronicas particulares del siglo XV castellano
(Georgetown University, 2011)QUIJOTES EN CIERNES: -
Realismo magico, vallenato y vIolencia politica en el Caribe Colombiano
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Revisiones de lo Afrocubano: Diálogo e interdisciplinariedad en Lydia Cabrera y Wifredo Lam
(Georgetown University, 2021)This dissertation analyzes the representation of Afro-Cuban subjects and cultures in the works of Lydia Cabrera and Wifredo Lam. The exploration of the Afro-Cuban religious universe and its articulation of the experience ... -
A "REVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS": REDEFINING VENEZUELAN NATIONAL IDENTITIES THROUGH CINEMA
(Georgetown University, 2011)I explore the popular Venezuelan National Film Platform, one of President Chávez's controversial social initiatives established in 2004. The Platform promotes the "Revolution of Consciousness" through cinema supporting ... -
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 ... -
The Role of Discourse Context and Verb Class in Native and Non-Native Spanish Postverbal Subjects
(Georgetown University, 2016)Recent research on the second language (L2) acquisition of postverbal subjects in Spanish has focused on the important role of discourse context in licensing postverbal subjects with unaccusative and unergative verbs ... -
The Sacred and the Profane in Five Aljamiado Narratives
(Georgetown University, 2016)This dissertation points at where the scholarship on Aljamiado-Morisco literature falls short and remedy what I believe is a problem. Viewing the entire corpus of literary production of a Muslim diaspora that lived under ... -
Second Language Spanish Intonation: Systemic and Realizational Dimensions of its Acquisition
(Georgetown University, 2019)There is increasing interest in the acquisition of second language (L2) intonation (e.g, Estebas-Vilaplana, 2017; Graham & Post, 2018), particularly in Spanish (e.g., McKinnon, 2017; van Maastricht, 2018; Yuan, González-Fuerte, ... -
The Secret Is in the Processing: A Study of Levels of Explicit Computerized Feedback in Heritage and L2 Learners of Spanish
(Georgetown University, 2017)The field of Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA) has expressed interest in pursuing a research agenda that expands the current heritage language (HL) strand of research to investigate how this heterogeneous ...
