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Australian English: a linguistic description
(2023-04-17)
The aim of this paper is to provide a general description of the linguistic
features of Australian English (AusE). For this purpose, the paper first focuses on the
sociohistorical context that explains how and why the ...
African American Vernacular English: language, attitudes and education
(2023-04-17)
African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is an English variety widely spoken by
African Americans in the United States. It is one of the most studied ethnic varieties of
English, especially since the second half of the ...
African american english: a historical and linguistic overview
(2023-04-17)
One of the most researched English varieties around the globe is African American English, also referred to as AAE. It is an interesting variety to study not only because of the amount of research it has had since the ...
Where is equality? A dissertation on feminist academic activism in british universities.
(2023-04-17)
Until recent years, little attention has been paid to the discrimination that so-called
minorised groups suffer within higher education in the UK. This dissertation acknowledges the power of feminist academic activism to ...
“We don’t have to go through this alone”: facing trauma through human connection in Alire Sáenz’s “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe” and Chbosky’s “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”
(2023-04-17)
In countries such as the United States, thousands of people have to face traumatic
experiences throughout their lives. If we look at the statistics, a portion of that population
develops Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder ...
Lexical access in Broca's and Wernicke's aphasia: a literature review
(2023-04-17)
Aphasia is a language disorder that results from brain injury, impairing the speaker's ability to produce and/or comprehend language (Arantzeta, 2021). The study of this specific language deficit is called aphasiology. ...
English VP ellipsis: ellipsis site, licensing condition and identity condition. A literature review
(2023-04-17)
Verb Phrase ellipsis is the syntactic occurrence in which the elements within the verb
phrase–the verb and its complements–are elided (van Craenenbroeck, 2014). Although
this linguistic phenomenon can be encountered in ...
Proficiency, task-type and gender effects on the use of communication strategies: a review
(2020-11-24)
It is safe to say that learners are bound to encounter communication problems, based on a target language (TL) deficiency, during their second language (L2) learning process. In order to cope with these situations, students ...
Dido and Aeneas. Virgilian influence on Henry Purcell
(2020-05-20)
The Aeneid by Virgil has been admired and continually imitated along centuries, and it is one of the most important poems written in the history of western civilization after the Bible, as it served as a source of influence ...
Virgil’s Dido and Jupiter, the models for the allegorical representations of queen Elizabeth I in Marlowe’s "Dido, Queen of Carthage"
(2020-12-21)
Dido, Queen of Carthage has been hitherto ignored by the academia and in fact, it has not been until the last century that the play has started to acquire the recognition it deserves. More specifically, this dissertation’s ...