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This work analyzes the intersections between the notions of geography, power, and resistance, specifically focusing on how these concepts produce and are productive of one another within a French Caribbean context. Focusing on the works...
This dissertation investigates transfer and markedness in bilingual and L2 Spanish stop-rhotic sequences (e.g., the 'br' in brisa 'breeze'). It also examines the phonetics-phonology interface in Spanish. To this end, it explores the...
A central issue in second language acquisition (SLA) research is the relationship between morphosyntactic and lexical-semantic knowledge among L2 learners. It has been proposed that, L2 language acquisition starts with transfer of L1...
The topic of identity is a highly debated topic among Jewish scholars as well as a recurrent theme in works of literature written by Jewish authors throughout the world. In the twentieth century several historical events have shaped and...
An on-going debate in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) concerns the role of explicit information (EI) about language in language acquisition. This study explores the role of EI in how instructed second language learners of...
Students attending University of Mexico with Mr. Le Cayo
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Photograph, black and white, of students attending the University of Mexico with Mr. Le Cayo. Three female students are standing against a wall with Mr. Le Cayo wearing a large, round hat.
This honors thesis will aim to address the less-studied topic of female aristeia and women in masculine roles in ancient epic to establish examples of women breaching concepts that divided ancient society. It will also examine aristeia...
Photograph, black and white, of students on stairs. A large group of high school students are sitting as a group on a set of outdoor stairs for Spanish Weekend, advertising the Florida State University Language Department.
Professor and Head, Victor R.B. Oelschlaeger and student
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Photograph, black and white, of Professor and Head, Victor R.B. Oelschlaeger and student. Professor and Head, Victor R.B. Oelschlaeger and a female student are in a room at a desk examining a piece of paper. Shelves of books are also...
The poems and translations in this thesis explore the "three strong voices" that poet Federico García Lorca believes the artist should heed: "the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art." The...
A partir de la segunda mitad del siglo se veía el cuestionamiento de estas divisiones y la búsqueda de diluir las líneas entre la clase, la raza y el género. Estos cambios fueron provocados por las revoluciones de independencia, los...
This dissertation investigates the locus of language selection during bilingual speech production. In particular, it explores whether distinct language backgrounds, proficiency, and age of acquisition determine language selectivity and...
Latino/a writing has become one of the fastest growing literary expressions in the United States. The success of this literature relies not only on the quality of the texts written by authors of Hispanic background, but also on the...
Readings of the economic thought of Cuban poet and social theorist José artà have focused on the portion of his journalistic works that looks like economic writing in a conventional sense. I argue that MartÃ's economic writings are far...
Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit Gabriele Münters Position und Rolle als einzige weibliche Mitbegründerin der expressionistischen Künstlergruppe Der Blaue Reiter. Zu Beginn wird der künstlerische Hintergrund Münters dargelegt. Weiterhin...
Photograph, black and white, of reading in a room. Eleven unknown people in a room reading and dicussing various books. People sit at various desks with books on them.
This dissertation is a translation and critical study of the play María la mosca by the Spanish playwright Miguel Sierra. The study is subdivided into three parts. The first provides an introduction to Sierra's career and work. It...
Photograph, black and white, of students on stairs. A large group of high school students are sitting as a group on a set of outdoor stairs for Spanish Weekend.
This dissertation examines the experiences of young Frenchwomen from the northeastern département of Moselle who, following the surrender of France to the invading Germans in 1940 and the de facto annexation of Moselle into the Third...
Nineteenth-century French censorship has had a profound impact on both the production and dissemination of literary works. The Loi de 1819, which established one of the first state-sponsored systematic policies of censorship in France, ...
La Quête dans le Cuer d'Amours Espris de René d'Anjou Comme Réécriture du Roman de la Rose et de la Queste del Sang Graal: Quête d'Une Nouvelle Éthique Princière
Dans le Livre du Cuer d'Amours espris (1457), René d'Anjo affirme s'être inspiré de deux oeuvres majeures du Moyen Age : le Roman de la Rose (1230-1270) et la Queste del Sang Greal (1225-1230). Le Livre du Cuer partage les qualités d...
Second language acquisition has been observed to be variable in its outcome such that, unlike native speakers, all second language learners do not achieve total success. Second language acquisition is made of macro and micro processes....
Cette étude porte sur les écritures féminines relatives aux temps des guerres civiles en Algérie et au Liban. Dans le cadre de la littérature d'urgence, elle compare les oeuvres de onze écrivaines de langue arabe et française dont Assia...
The reason for researching the narrative of Juana Manuela Gorriti and Clorinda Matto de Turner is to understand the role they performed in a patriarchal society at the end of the 19th century and how they are able to project through...
Photograph, black and white, of Dr. Lincoln Canfield reading with an unknown man. Two men in a room examining a pamphlet. Dr. Canfield is sitting in a chair, the other standing.
Esta disertación analiza los temas del budismo zen, el yin-yang y la ecologÃa en la obra completa del poeta mexicano Alberto Blanco (1951) para comprobar que todo en el cosmos está conectado y forma parte de un Gran Ser y a la vez que...
In this study, I evaluate and explore the role of the antihero and the subordinate male in the patriarchal society as a marginalized voice throughout discourse at the end of the twentieth century. These discourses are first-person...
Codeswitching is commonly practiced by Spanish heritage bilinguals in the United States (Fairchild & Van Hell, 2017). Further, intrasentential codeswitching is the use of more than one language within a clause, as shown in (1) (Sankoff &...
This thesis deals with palatals from Latin into Spanish and French. Specifically, it focuses on the diachronic history of each language with a focus on palatals. I also look at studies that have been conducted concerning palatals, and...
La literatura venezolana de la segunda mitad del siglo XX es el centro de estudio de esta investigación. Específicamente se trata el tema de los inmigrantes italianos, portugueses, españoles y colombianos en Venezuela y su presencia como...
Le but de ce mémoire est de traiter des aspects majeurs du vaudou utilisés par René Depestre dans Hadriana dans tous mes rêves. Il se peut que ce roman soit la meilleure des œuvres de Depestre puisque c'est dans ce roman que Depestre a...
This thesis examines the changing conditions between Russian labor camps from the Tsarist to Soviet regime. Shifts in labor condtions, quality of life and role of relationships within labor camps are illustrated through critical analysis...
ABSTRACT This project analyses the multi-functional Spanish SE and features of verb morphology that this particle forces on verbs of reflexives, passives and impersonals . The generative framework has been adopted to examine the...
In this dissertation, I examine a variety of Francophone African novels, films, and autobiographies with female and male child-soldiers as main characters. My corpus includes well-known works such as Johnny Mad Dog by Emmanuel Dongola, ...
It is well documented that L2 learners of Spanish have difficulty with inflectional morphology, specifically with gender agreement. Studies have shown that gender agreement is a feature of the second language that is acquired very late ...
This study investigates the effects of input and interaction activities on the acquisition of French reflexive verbs. In this research project, I address the following two research questions: 1) Will acquisition and production of French...
Gis'le Pineau a 't' d'crite comme une nouvelle voix guadeloup'enne dans le mouvement de la Cr'olit'. Comme les repr'sentants de ce mouvement, elle s'attache ' inscrire le peuple de son 'le au c'ur de son 'uvre litt'raire et utilise un...
This study includes six narratives published between 1980 and 2009 that offer exemplary representations of a racialized, gendered identification process in the Caribbean, and situates them within a post-colonial Pan-Caribbean literary...
Photograph, black and white, of three people holding a painting. Two men and a woman are standing next to a side table and holding a framed portrait of a man.
The intention of this paper is to shed light on the cultural practices utilized by Napo Kichwa people of Amazonian Ecuador, and how these practices contribute to their overall views of health. As I will show, Kichwa speakers view their...
Contemporary Algerian Filmmaking: from "Cinéma National" to "Cinéma De L'Urgence" (Mohamed Chouikh, Merzak Allouache, Yamina Bachir-Chouikh, Nadir Moknèche)
This dissertation considers the position of contemporary Algerian filmmaking (1988-2003) against the much-debated concept of national cinema. Drawing upon a range of theoretical frameworks and concepts such as Third Cinema, transnational...
Esta investigación examina la representación temática de la esclavitud en Puerto Rico antes de la abolición en 1873. El estudio argumenta, que contrario a la crítica, existen textos que documentan el pensamiento decimonónico sobre la...
Arriving as indentured laborers during the latter half of the 19th century, the East Indian diaspora in the French Caribbean occupies a marginal space in literary and critical writings emerging from this region. This diaspora, the...
Photograph, black and white, of group posing outside a house. A group of unknown people standing in front of House Lafeyette. A large group is on the ground floor and a smaller group is standing on the balcony holding the French flag. An...
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