Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Spanish and Portuguese by Title
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A Nation of Flesh: Confronting Cattle at the Argentine Slaughterhouse (1839-2001)
(Georgetown University, 2021)This dissertation explores a cultural history of the slaughterhouse in Argentina from the inception of the nation to the beginning of the twentieth century. Against the understanding of the slaughterhouse as a space designed ... -
A Systematic Investigation of the Spanish Subjunctive: Mood Variation in Subjunctive Clauses
(Georgetown University, 2021)Standard Spanish grammar states that desideratives (querer que), directives (aconsejar que ), purpose clauses (para que), causatives (hacer que), emotive-factives (alegrarse de que), negated epistemics (no creer que), ... -
Accesorios de moda femenina: género, modernidad e identidad nacional en el siglo XIX ibérico y latinoamericano
(Georgetown University, 2018)Women’s Fashion Accessories examines the textual and visual representation of accessories in Iberian and Latin American cultural contexts ranging from the 1830s to the early 1900s. Drawing from gender studies, social ... -
Alcoholismo, marginalidad y crónica del hampa: Victor Hugo Viscarra y las memorias de un indigente
(Georgetown University, 2023)In this dissertation I will study the underworld of La Paz, Bolivia through the writings about marginalized people by the indigent and alcoholic writer Víctor Hugo Viscarra (1958-2006). This study will focus on showing the ... -
Atlas: Una Cartografía del Deporte en la Literatura Latinoamericana (1888-1940)
(Georgetown University, 2020)This dissertation analyzes the relationship between writing and the emergence of the modern athletic imagination in Latin America at the end of the 19th century as a way of charting the subjective dimensions of globalization. ... -
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 -
Ausencias y presencias de la nación: Una reconstrucción cultural de las identidades ibéricas
(Georgetown University, 2021)This dissertation argues that the defeat of the Second Republic in the Civil War (1939) and the subsequent dictatorship (1939–1975) disrupted a nation-building process in Spain due to the hegemonic power of National ... -
AVATARES DE LA AGENCIA Y RESISTENCIA INDIGENA: TITU CUSI YUPANQUI (15??-1571) Y ESTERCILIA SIMANCA (1976)
(Georgetown University, 2015)The dissertation proposes a comparative analysis of two indigenous authors who wrote more than four centuries apart: Inca Titu Cusi Yupanqui from 16th century Peru, and a 21st century female Wayuu writer, Estercilia Simanca ... -
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 ... -
Borges in Hollywood: From Art House to Blockbuster Cinema
(Georgetown University, 2017)This dissertation examines Jorge Luis Borges’s influence on contemporary cinema. I postulate that cinematic appropriations of Borges are shifting from art house to blockbuster films, facilitated partly by postmodern ... -
De canibales y conquistadores
(Georgetown University, 2016)Historically, Dominican scholars have defined a national identity within discourses aligned with Europeanizing aspirations. This Eurocentric preference in the production of Dominican history contrasts with a majority ... -
Cervantes e Historias Psicosomáticas Amatorias: Don Quijote, un Manual de Modelos Literarios de la Melancolía del Amor
(Georgetown University, 2019)This thesis examines the interrelationship between the literary expressions of love entwined in the construction of relationships among marriageable characters and the symptoms of melancholy. I am analyzing the correlations ... -
Clitics at the edge : clitic placement in Western Iberian Romance languages
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Codeswitching and identity among island Puerto Rican bilinguals
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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 ... -
Cognitive Task Complexity, Foreign Language Anxiety and L2 Performance in Spanish: A Task-Based Language Teaching Perspective
(Georgetown University, 2018)Although cognitive psychology literature (e.g., Derakshan & Eysenck, 2009) has demonstrated the detrimental effects anxiety has on cognitive processes, this relationship has barely been investigated in the SLA field (e.g., ... -
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 ... -
Contributions of Cross-linguistic Influence and Language Aptitude to the Perception and Production of L3 Spanish Labial Stops among Korean-English of Varying L3 Proficiency
(Georgetown University, 2022)Over the last two decades, there has been an increasing interest in third language (L3) phonology (Cabrelli Amaro, 2012; Cabrelli Amaro & Wrembel, 2016). However, research so far has been primarily directed at specific ... -
Crosslinguistic Influence from Spanish in L3 Portuguese: The Roles of Language Background, Proficiency Level, Crosslinguistic Awareness, and Psychotypology
(Georgetown University, 2022)While research on crosslinguistic influence (CLI) in third language (L3) learning has widely supported typological proximity as a primary determinant of CLI in L3s (e.g., Giancaspro et al., 2015; Montrul et al., 2010; ... -
CRÓNICAS DEL PUEBLO Y DEL PAÍS: CUÉNTAME CÓMO PASÓ Y LA TRANSICIÓN ESPAÑOLA A LA DEMOCRACIA
(Georgetown University, 2016)The “Spanish model” of Transition from dictatorship to democracy continues to provoke controversy in political and academic circles, as well as in the media, and to raise questions on strategies for consensus. My dissertation ...
