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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Cuerpos en transito : efectos de la globalizacion en el cine social contemporaneo
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De héroes y heroínas: Cortés y Pizarro frente a las heroicas mujeres de la Colonia y la lucha de la Independencia
(Georgetown University, 2019)To speak of heroes is to speak of figures possessed with particular talents, figures of an audacious nature framed by glory. There are countless examples of such characters in the narrative of the Conquest of America and ... -
Degrees of Instructional Explicitness, Depth of Processing, Learning styles and L2 Development: A study on the Spanish Imperfect subjunctive
(Georgetown University, 2014)The aim of the present study was three-fold: First, it intended to investigate the effects that different types of instruction varying in explicitness (e.g., Rosa & O'Neill, 1999; Rosa & Leow, 2004), had on 88 intermediate-level ... -
Denaturalizing the Market, Revaluating the Body: Neoliberal Biopolitics in Latin American Literature and Film, 1990-2010
(Georgetown University, 2016)During the last three decades of the twentieth century, neoliberalism was the dominant political economic discourse in Latin America, as many countries implemented a series of reforms to promote free markets and free trade. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Discovering Everyday Life: Representation, Ethics, and Transatlantic Convergence in Contemporary Literary Journalism in Spain
(Georgetown University, 2016)This thesis looks at the interrelation between literary journalism in contemporary Spain, or periodismo de arte in Francisco Umbral’s words, and everyday life. Specifically I examine how weekly newspaper columns by fiction ... -
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 ... -
Early and Emergent Bilinguals: The Role of Cognitive Control in the Processing of Linguistic Conflict
(Georgetown University, 2020)Language processing requires frequent resolution of conflict (e.g. temporary ambiguities, conflicting parsing principles, see Jegerski, 2012). This conflict triggers cognitive control, which has been shown to be a major ... -
The Effects Of Pronunciation Instruction On The Production Of Second Language Spanish: A Classroom Study
(Georgetown University, 2016)Evidence suggests that pronunciation instruction is just as effective as grammar or vocabulary instruction (Lee et al., 2014; Thomson & Derwing, 2014). Despite supporting research, pronunciation instruction in the Spanish ... -
THE EFFECTS OF TYPE OF FEEDBACK, AMOUNT OF FEEDBACK AND TASK-ESSENTIALNESS IN A L2 COMPUTER-ASSISTED STUDY
(Georgetown University, 2016)For decades SLA research has looked at learner-external factors as influencers of learning outcomes, one of them being computerized types of feedback, with non-conclusive results. Moreover, a potentially significant ... -
El destape del macho iberico : masculinidades disidentes en la comedia sexy (celt)iberica
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El espectro de la figura gitana en el cine español
(Georgetown University, 2016)This dissertation examines the representation of the Gypsy figure in the Spanish cinema and particularly its role in the formation of Spanish national identity from the Second Republic to the post-Franco period. Titles of ... -
El(la) Mapping: An Integrated Account of Learning Context, Feedback and Agreement Morphology in the Processing of OclVS Sentences in Advanced L2 Spanish
(Georgetown University, 2015)Previous literature has shown that beginning and intermediate English-speaking learners persistently misinterpret O-cliticVS sentences in Spanish, preferring word order over morphology when assigning semantic functions to ... -
Emotion, Motivation, and Vocabulary Learning: A Study of Heritage and Foreign Language Learners of Spanish
(Georgetown University, 2020)Within second language acquisition (SLA), researchers now identify emotion as a cornerstone of cognition and learning (e.g., Dewaele, 2010a; LeBlanc, McConnell, & Monteiro, 2015) and a key component driving learners’ ... -
Experiences of Remembering and Knowing in SLA, L2 Development, and Text Comprehension: A Study of Levels of Awareness, Type of Glossing, and Type of Linguistic Item
(Georgetown University, 2010)Attentional models in SLA (e.g., Schmidt, 1990; Robinson, 1995b) propose a crucial role for awareness in L2 learning, and suggest that awareness allows for encoding in episodic memory. In cognitive psychology, Tulving ... -
Factors affecting English speakers' perception of L2 Spanish vowels
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Falling into Shame: The Cultural History of an Emotion in Pre-Modern Iberia
(Georgetown University, 2020)This dissertation explores literary and visual representations of shame with a particular focus on the 14th to 16th centuries. Through a survey of prose literary works and Early Modern visual culture, this project argues ... -
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 -
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 -
Fluency, Working Memory, and Second Language Proficiency in Multicompetent Writers
(Georgetown University, 2020)The present study compared pausing behavior while writing in the L1 and the L2 of emergent bilinguals and investigated the role of WM and proficiency level, as well as observed the cognitive processes that occurred during ...
