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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 ...
Contact between Languages: the case of English and Spanish
(2017)
[Abstract] The relationship of language contact is characterized by historical phenomena such as internal borrowing, loanblend, loanword, loan translation, loanshift and semantic borrowing, indicating the proximity and ...
The Study of Kennings in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf
(2016)
[Abstract] Beowulf is an anonymous poem written in the Anglo-Saxon period (449-1066 AD), considered nowadays an English literary masterpiece and the most relevant epic poem in existence. It springs from Germanic oral ...
Analysis of Errors in Learners of Spanish as a Second Language
(2016)
[Abstract] In this dissertation we present a description about certain linguistic aspects those Anglophone speakers who are learning Spanish as a second language might have. In order to accomplish this, we have used the ...
The Translation of Humour: Dubbing and Subtitling from English into Spanish in Modern Family
(2021)
[Abstract] This end-of-degree project analyses a collection of episodes ofthe American sitcomModern Familyfocusing on the translation of humourfrom English to Spanish. The main purpose of this paper is to ...
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 ...
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho: a Gender Studies Perspective
(2017)
[Abstract] This undergraduate thesis pursues a gender study of the renowned Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho (1960), the masterpiece of his filmography. The personality of the director will also be analyzed due to his turbulent ...
Hysteria, Witches, and Women: A Feminist Reading of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible
(2021)
[Abstract] The object of study of this end-of-degree project is Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, written in 1952. My main goals are three: to analyze the depiction of women and female sexuality in the play through ...
“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 ...
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 ...