Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Spanish and Portuguese by Creation Date
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Visions of antiquity remembering the classical past in the Castilian Roman Antique
(Georgetown University, 2010)The appearance of the Libro de Alexandre and the Libro de Apolonio in the thirteenth-century Castilian literary scene represents the first time in which the key classical narratives about Alexander the Great, the Trojan ... -
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 ... -
Quijotes en ciernes: Caballeria, genero y autoridad en las cronicas particulares del siglo XV castellano
(Georgetown University, 2011)QUIJOTES EN CIERNES: -
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 ... -
Heterogeneidad de los discursos sobre lo indigena en las revistas indigenistas peruanas de vanguardia
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Finding God in All Things: Teresa of Ávila's Use of the Familiar
(Georgetown University, 2011)FINDING GOD IN ALL THINGS: TERESA OF ÁVILA'S USE OF THE FAMILIAR -
Two Classes of Transitive Verbs: Evidence from Spanish
(Georgetown University, 2011)The unaccusativity hypothesis (Burzio 1986; Levin & Rappaport Hovav 1995; Perlmutter 1978) posits that intransitive verbs may be divided into two broad classes: unaccusatives, whose sole argument is an internal argument ... -
ATTENTION TO FORM AND MEANING: LEARNING WITHOUT AWARENESS? AN INTERPRETABLE AND UNINTERPRETABLE APPROACH
(Georgetown University, 2012)ATTENTION TO FORM AND MEANING: LEARNING WITHOUT AWARENESS? AN INTERPRETABLE AND UNINTERPRETABLE APPROACH -
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 ... -
DIFFERENTIAL GAINS IN ORAL PROFICIENCY DURING STUDY ABROAD: THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE LEARNING APTITUDES
(Georgetown University, 2012)This inquiry analyzed the relationships between individual differences and gains made in oral proficiency of adult, second language learners of Spanish during one semester studying abroad. Oral proficiency was measured ... -
A Contrastive Analysis of Spanish and Fang: an L2 approach to Equatorial Guinean Spanish as Spoken in Bata City
(Georgetown University, 2013)Previous studies on Equatorial Guinean Spanish (EGS) have described this dialect as being heavily influenced by the L1. For example, Granda (1985), Lipski (1985), and Quilis & Casado-Fresnillo (1995) maintain that failure ... -
Ficciones raciales: representaciones de raza y genero a traves de la literatura y las artes visuales en Colombia 1830- 1875
(Georgetown University, 2013)RACIAL FICTIONS: REPRESENTATIONS OF RACE AND GENDER THROUGH LITERATURE AND VISUAL ARTS IN COLOMBIA 1830- 1875 -
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 ... -
DESEANDO PERTENECER: MEMORIA Y MIGRACIÓN EN LA OBRA DE POETAS MAPUCHE Y PUNEÑOS CONTEMPORÁNEOS
(Georgetown University, 2013)This dissertation examines the interaction of two main themes in the work of contemporary poets of Chile and Peru: migration and "re-indigenization". Jaime Huenún and David Aniñir, urban Mapuche poets, and Gloria Mendoza ... -
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 ... -
Bilingualism, Aging, and Instructional Conditions in Non-Primary Language Development
(Georgetown University, 2013)A central question in second language acquisition (SLA) is the interaction of internal and external variables, and this dissertation contributes to the field by investigating the effects of bilingualism and aging on language ... -
Cognitive and Psychosocial Factors in the Long-term Development of Implicit and Explicit Second Language Knowledge in Adult Learners of Spanish at Increasing Proficiency
(Georgetown University, 2013)This study examined the second language (L2) development of adult learners of Spanish at three levels of proficiency during and after a semester of instruction. A fundamental goal was to identify cognitive and psychosocial ... -
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 ... -
Sleek Words: Art Deco and Brazilian Modernism
(Georgetown University, 2014)I explore Art Deco in the Brazilian Modernist movement during the 1920s. Art Deco is a decorative arts style that rose to global prominence during this decade and its proponents adopted and adapted the style in order to ... -
Dominicanas Unbound: Religion, Culture and Politics in Dominican and Dominican American Women's Literature
(Georgetown University, 2014)What is the connection between contemporary Dominican literature and Louis Althusser's theories about how the ruling classes are able to maintain power? I conclude that there is a sector of Dominican literature that gives ...
