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Hedging in Academic Texts: a Cross-Linguistic Comparison between English and Galician
(2018)
[Abstract] This final dissertation offers an approach to the concept of hedging and its socio-pragmatic implications with three different aims. First, it attempts to shed some light on this linguistic strategy, whose ...
Every Person Needs their Own Pronoun: An Approach to Singular They in English
(2020)
[Abstract] Over the past few years, there has been an increasing tendency to make language more inclusive, which consists of avoiding the use of the masculine gender as a generic form to refer both to men and women. This ...
An Immigrant Black Woman in America: An Intersectional Analysis of Adichie’s Americanah
(2021)
[Abstract] Americanah is a novel written by the renowned author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It was first published in 2013 and it deals with Ifemelu, a young Nigerian woman who voluntarily emigrates to the United States in ...
Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself: A Feminist and Gender Studies Approach
(2023)
[Abstract] The object of study of this BA thesis is Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave
Girl, Written by Herself, published in 1861. My aim is to demonstrate that, apart from race,
gender conforms a crucial ...
Beyond Gender: Sex, Class, and Ethnicity in Kate Chopin’s Short Stories
(2022)
[Abstract] The object of study of this dissertation are three short stories by one of the most
representative writers of nineteenth-century American literature, Kate Chopin. The author is
specially appreciated by ...
Twelfth Night’s Performances: An Analysis of Gender Presentations and Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama
(2022)
[Abstract] Literary works are quite relevant in the study of a certain period’s social attitudes and
concepts such as gender and sexuality. This is especially true for drama as it provides a
way to observe the characters ...