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Negation in non-standard varieties of English
(2020-11-20)
This paper reviews the most prominent syntactic analyses that have been proposed in the literature for two non-standard negation phenomena: Negative Concord (NC) and Negative Inversion (NI). Linguistic theory has shown an ...
The Infanticide in Toni Morrison's "Beloved"- A Mother's Desperate Cry
(2020-05-25)
This thesis explores Toni Morrison’s ability to put into words the most dreadful and spiteful situation of the infanticide narrated in Beloved . Morrison’s skilled usage of words arouses to induce the reader to be empathetic ...
Esther Through the Looking-Glass: Self-Image De(Con)struction in Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar"
(2022-03-07)
[EN] The aim of this paper is to analyse the role of mirrors in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. Specifically, I concentrate on the six scenes in which a mirror is literally or metaphorically present in order to sustain my ...
Harold Pinter: the ultimate realist
(2022-03-07)
Harold Pinter’s 'The Birthday Party' and 'The Room' have very frequently been read as absurdist plays, being Martin Esslin’s 'The Theatre of the Absurd' the reference work for such interpretation. Nonetheless, the ...
The representation of magic in the germanic literature of the Middle Ages
(2020-11-24)
Magic is something that has always been known and has always been performed. There are many different kinds of this practice such as witchcraft, astrology or tarot, that have been explored from various perspectives. But ...
The development of the vocalic system of the english language: from Proto-Germanic to present-day English
This dissertation focuses in the evolution of the vocalic system of English: the aim of this work is to analyze and explain why and how vowels have developed from Old English to Present-Day English. To begin with, the ...
Monstrous victims: the representation of female vampires in Ryan Murphy’s "American Horror Story Hotel"
(2020-11-24)
[EN].Gender representation in cinema has been an object of debate for years. More recently, television series have been incorporated to this debate as these productions also offer gender representations which may even ...
Ellipsis in drama and novel: a cohesive device
(2022-03-07)
Ellipsis is one of the devices contributing to the cohesion of both written and spoken discourse. It is the omission of some elements from a clause whose meaning is understood even though they fail to be phonetically ...
Late Hollywood classics as a tool for understanding American society in the 50s.
(2022-03-08)
Contrary to what happened in Europe, the war was a period of great economic prosperity for Americans. As reflected in movies, the changes increased considerably in the 50s, with some external factors ‒the Cold War, the ...
The problem of multilingualism in the European Union: a historical perspective and evolution
(2022-03-08)
The reality of multilingualism in the European institutions is a more complex issue than its motto: United in Diversity. The increasing penetration of English in the everyday use of European citizens and its establishment ...