Morpho-syntactic features of Modern Standard Arabic mix intricately with those of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic in ordinary speech. I study the lexical, phonological and syntactic features of verb phrase morphemes and constituents in different tenses, aspects, moods. A corpus of ov…
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This dissertation analyzes the relationship between several mystic Sephardic texts called the Kabalah which include the three basic mystic books of Judaism: Sefer Yetsira, Sefer Bahir, and Sefer Zohar, and Argentine writer of Jewish descent, Marcos Ricardo Barnatan’s experimenta…
The thesis was inspired from a basic observation: the lack of reflection with regards to the issues of identity, otherness and integration into western societies notwithstanding the fact that they are more and more heterogeneous. The treatment by the Quebec news media of the rea…
This dissertation examines the genre, narrativity and use of humor in Colonel José Cadalso's 1774 work Cartas marruecas (Moroccan Letters). The Moroccan Letters consists of a fictitious correspondence carried on between three people: Gazel Ben-Aly, a Moroccan youth traveling in …
My dissertation offers an analysis of childhood writing in Moroccan literature. It explores narratives entirely or partially dedicated to childhood written by both male and female writers and published during the second half of the twentieth century. This includes early works su…
This thesis explores language policies, language conflict and language-user attitudes toward arabicization which refers to the use of Arabic as a medium of instruction in teaching medicine in universities in the Sudan. It follows up these objectives: (1) To highlight the roots o…
Living a life "on the hyphen" -- as the Cuban-American critic Gustavo Perez Firma calls it -- or in a "third space" -- as the Indian literary theorist Homi Bhabha defines it -- has become the most common way to describe the condition of those identities in-between, to define the…
This study deals with unplanned terminology development in the subject field of economics within media discourse. It examines how economic terms in Turkish newspapers emerge, are used, and cease. This developmental process is also analyzed through productivity of economic terms …
In this dissertation I demonstrate that stress has played an important role in the development of tone in Tibetan. Using original field data and acoustic analysis, I compare two non-tonal "Archaic" varieties spoken at the western and eastern edges of the Tibetan language area: B…
Our multicultural world increasingly demands that we learn foreign languages to be able to interact effectively and appropriately with members of other cultures. This is of particular importance in fields such as government, education, and commerce. Effective intercultural inter…
L'alternance locative implique la possibilité pour certains verbes locatifs de réaliser syntaxiquement leurs arguments différemment. Un verbe comme to load, en anglais, permet que le constituant Locatum et le constituant Lieu soient réalisés dans la position d'objet direct alter…
The main purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the representation of violence in Colombian films at the end of the past century. At the beginning of 1990 many film directors in Colombia started working on this new genre "violencia." These new productions served as a cultura…
<?Pub Inc> The objective of this research is to examine governmental messaging during times of international conflict, specifically Canada's mission in Afghanistan, as it relates to public perception. This paper will test the effectiveness of government messaging during a specif…
This study examines the languages of Jews in Europe and Palestine on the one hand, and the Jewish intelligentsia within the Zionist movement on the other. I compare the linguistic preferences of different social strata within European Jewry. The Zionist movement claimed to addre…
There is no doubt that culture represents a vital component of the foreign language curriculum. Over the past decades, foreign language textbooks, as a key element in the teaching and learning process, covered culture differently qualitatively and quantitatively, and the Arabic …
For the last 40 years a pivotal debate in Contemporary Peninsular Studies has been the so-called “Transition Problem” (Stanley), i.e., the question of how and to what extent Spain and/or Portugal moved during the 1970s from a corporatist dictatorship to a liberal democratic form…
Discourse markers are used considerably in Egyptian colloquial Arabic, yet few studies examine them in colloquial Arabic. A mixed-method research design adopting a descriptive corpus-based approach is used to better understand the communicative discourse and vagueness functions …
Although Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) has three different interdental fricatives /θ/, /ðʕ/, and the emphatic interdental /ðˤ/, most Egyptian Arabic (EA) speakers do not pronounce these interdental fricative sounds, whether in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or in English, and inste…
My dissertation focuses on three contemporary novels written by Latin American authors of Syrian origins. These are Nahima: la larga historia de mi madre by Edith Chahín; Mohamad o latoeiro by Gilberto Abrão; and Perfumes de Cartago by Teresa Porzecanski. Their texts, in Spanish…