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“To Be a Yardstick”: Individual Rebellion and Social Conformity in Cathy Park Hong’s Engine Empire
(2019)
[Abstract] This Master’s thesis engages in a multidisciplinary humanistic analysis of Cathy Park Hong’s triptych Engine Empire. Said analysis is divided into three parts, each one corresponding to one of the poem’s sections. ...
From Subaltern to Heroine: Sisterhood and Empowerment in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
(2018)
[Abstract] This Master’s thesis looks at three secondary female characters from Alice Walker’s The Color Purple (1982) and their respective contribution to the development and growth of Celie’s identity, the protagonist. ...
Pragmatic competence in Spanish students of EFL: making requests and apologies
(2016)
[Abstract] This dissertation examines the pragmatic competence of Spanish advanced learners of English through the performance of requests and apologies. Data has been drawn from production questionnaires by means of the ...
Content Marketing As Ideology: A Critical Discourse Analysis Approach
(2016)
[Abstract] This master´s thesis provides an approach to content marketing and its application to the online context. To define principal beliefs of the content marketing strategy, it has been approached as an ideology, ...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah: (Re)opening a Conversation about Race and Beauty
(2014)
[Abstract] The purpose of this dissertation is to comment upon Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013). The analysis of the novel will focus on “race” as a social construction, which will enable to explore how beauty, ...
Geography and involvement: a linguistic analysis of women’s discourse
(2015)
[Abstract] This research project aims at assessing the level of involvement in speeches by women representative of different countries and institutions, either governments or organisations. Different variables will be taken ...
Living in Rapture: Cultural perspectives and narrative techniques in the Bioshock Saga
(2015)
[Abstract] This paper will study the videogames pertaining to the Bioshock Saga that take place in the city of Rapture. The first objective is to identify and analyze the cultural and
philosophical concepts included in ...
James Joyce in Translation: Colloquialisms, Vulgarisms and Idiomatic and Cultural Expressions in the Spanish and Galician versions of ‘Ulysses’
(2014)
[Abstract] James Joyce’s Ulysses narrates the story about a day in the life of the two main characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom. Despite being a complex reading, this novel was translated into a lot of languages. ...
Real or not real? : exploring gender in Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games Trilogy
(2017)
[Abstract] My Masters final project deals with issues of gender in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games. I analyse the main three characters—Katniss Everdeen, Gale Hawthorne and Peeta Mellark—following Judith Butler’s theories ...
Culture, Humour, and Subtitles: The Translation into English of Ocho Apellidos Vascos
(2021)
[Abstract] This work aims atanalysingthetranslation into English of theSpanish filmOcho Apellidos Vascos, focusing on its difficulties as a comedy and its challenges regarding culture-specific items (CSIs). ...