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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 ...
The Influence of CLIL on Receptive Vocabulary: A Preliminary Study
In the last two or three decades, being able to communicate in a foreign language has become an essential trait of any European citizen due to globalisation and migration, resulting in a multi-ethnic and multilingual ...
Horror Literature
Howard Philips Lovecraft is considered one of the most influential horror writers in
literature, and since studies focusing on the author are already common, it
might
be
interesting to take a ...
Lucretia or Lucrece? The woman in the myth and her impact on Shakespeare
The myth in charge of issuing the story of the rape of Lucretia has played an important role in history. The fall of the ideal Roman matron has been reproduced in multiple ways from classical times onwards, including a ...
Peter Pan’s Wendy as a standardized model of a woman in the Victorian era
Considered one of the most famous stories ever written among children’s literature, Peter Pan (1904) reflects some experiences James Matthew Barrie had in his life. The aim of this dissertation is to provide an analysis ...
Beliefs about Individual Differences and Instructional Settings in Secondary Education Learners
(2017-11-21)
During the last few decades, social-psychological theories have gained popularity in Second Language Acquisition (SLA), as they consider individual differences, which are often disregarded by linguistic approaches, relevant ...