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Language and Androcentrism: A Cross-Linguistic Study in English and Spanish
(2022)[Abstract] Patriarchy is a social order that has pervaded all aspects of our socialization, including language. Aiming at preserving the male-dominated status quo, languages have been constructed from an androcentric ... -
Language Attitudes and Motivations: towards learning English in A Coruña
(2017)[Abstract] The following pages of this paper will reflect upon the concepts of attitudes and motivations and on a study carried out in the city of A Coruña which focused on adults learning English in a small language ... -
Life in Between Floors : British Society through Period Drama
(2017)[Abstract] In this dissertation I will highlight some of the issues and events that occurred in Britain between 1903 and 1930 and link them to the portrayal of that specific time in the TV format that is known as period ... -
Linguistic and Cultural Changes in the Spanish and English Revised Editions of The Famous Five. The Case of Five on Kirrin Island Again
(2020)[Abstracts] This undergraduate paper provides a comparative analysis of Enid Blyton’s Five on Kirrin Island Again throughout four versions of this book, two of them in English and the other two in Spanish. The main purpose ... -
Mary Hays’s The Victim of Prejudice: A Vindication of Social Equality and Female Liberation
(2019)[Abstract] The aim of this paper is to expose the role of the writer Mary Hays in the feminist literary movement through the analysis of her novel The Victim of Prejudice with the support of the theoretical framework of ... -
Mo Chorp, Mo Rogha: Female Bodily Autonomy In Anglo-Irish Contemporary Literature
(2020)[Abstract] This project deals with the historical circumstances which have limited the access to abortion in the Republic of Ireland and their impact in literature. First, I study the role of hegemonic Irish national ... -
Muted Figures: Reading the Picture Bride Phenomenon in Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic and Yoshiko Uchida's Picture Bride
(2018)[Abstract] My purpose in this undergraduate thesis is to explore the Japanese American phenomenon of picture brides focusing on the topic of silence. In order to do this, two narratives have been selected: Picture Bride ... -
Naming the Unnamable: A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Swearing in TV Series
(2023)[Abstracts] In this project, a comparative analysis of bad language in television series is carried out. Two English and one Spanish series have been chosen to observe the differences in translation that occur between ... -
New Trends in Word-Formation Processes in English: an Analysis of the Latest OED Entries
(2021)[Abstract] It is widely accepted that language changes; this change goes simultaneously with the evolution of the world. Phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics or pragmatics have evolved and then been examined by ... -
Patriarchal Oppression and Women’s Empowerment in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus
(2022)[Abstract] The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of the famous novel Purple Hibiscus (2003) by the writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Two main issues will be discussed: the subject of patriarchal societies ... -
“Quítate tú pa’ ponerme yo”: An analysis of Latin music as an expression of identity in the United States
(2021)[Abstract] This analysis focus on the connection between Hispanic Caribbean music and identity in the Latino community that lives in the U.S. territory. In this paper, it has been employed as the main sourcesof ... -
Regency Romances over Time: A Comparison between Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton: The Duke and I and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and Sense and Sensibility.
(2023)[Abstract] This present study intends to demonstrate the evolution of novels set in the Regency period but written in the twenty-first century through the comparison of the novel Bridgerton: The Duke and I by the American ... -
Los santos inocentes, de la novela al cine: Miguel Delibes Mario Camus
(2020)[Resumen] Los santos inocentes de Miguel Delibes es una de las obras maestras de la literatura realista de nuestro país. El escritor vallisoletano retrata de una manera cruda y al mismo tiempo, desde una perspectiva con ... -
Shedding Light on the Translation of Idioms: A Study Based on American TV Series
(2023)[Abstract] In recent years, experts in the field of Translation have become interested in idioms, as they represent a significant challenge in the search for correspondence between the source and target language. It ... -
Streets of Galway: the challenge of adapting for television Ken Bruen's Jack Taylor novels
(2021)[Abstract] Literature and identity are two ideas intrinsically linked. There is an indivisible relationship between both concepts and neither can advance without the other. Literary manifestations have been worked as a ... -
Teaching and learning phrasal verbs: how they are presented in teaching books, dictionaries and mobile applications, and a proposal of possible alternatives
(2013)[Abstract]This assignment is intended to present more efficient and entertaining methods to teach phrasal verbs to students of English as a foreign or second language by looking at different materials that deal with them. -
The American Dream in the spotlight
(2014)[Abstract] "The American Dream" is the concept of America that the foundig fathers of the country, among other, built during the early years of the United States of America. But analysing two contemporary films that openly ... -
The Birth of African American Identity in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
(2022)[Abstract] The object of study of this end-of-degree project is the autobiography of Frederick Douglass, titled Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself, and written in 1845. ...